The Museum now charges a modest admission charge for adults (19 and older) for selected special exhibitions.

This admission charge will be waived for the following:

• Students and active duty military personnel (with presentation of ID)

• Teachers and chaperones accompanying school groups on tours of the special exhibition

• Parents accompanying homeschool groups on scheduled tours of the special exhibition

• Members of the Friends of the Museum

(September 14 through November 6, 2010)

Today Henry Horenstein is well-known as a photographer, author, and educator who has published over 30 books including photo-essays, monographs, and textbooks. He has exhibited widely internationally and his work is represented in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the High Museum in Atlanta, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Country Music Hall of Fame, the George Eastman House, and the National Museum of American History. But in the 1970s Horenstein was a young photographer shooting album covers for Rounder Records.

A lifelong country music fan, he used his off-hours to immerse himself in that music at show venues, music parks, and rural saloons, taking candid photographs that captured a true slice of American life. Horenstein’s photographs reveal a fascinating period in country music, when its stars received relatively little airplay, but honky tonks and country music parks thrived. His photographs will appear with album covers, instruments, and stage costumes of country musicians connected with Arkansas. Media sponsorship provided by Cumulus Media, Inc.

Grandpa Jones and his wife Ramona
at the Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, Tennessee, 1974.