page_title: Fort Smith, Arkansas
section_title: Museums
hierarchical_section_title: Fort Smith, Arkansas / Culture / Museums
caption_attribution_description: Fort Smith streetcar No. 224, a "Birney Safety Car" built in 1926 for Fort Smith, Arkansas, is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). It operates at the Fort Smith Trolley Museum. It is pictured stopped along the south side of Garland Avenue just west of 6th Street, in front of the entrance to the Fort Smith National Cemetery (out of view, to the right), about to depart. This was the trolley line's east end from 1994 until 2005, when the line was extended a short distance east, across 6th Street, to a terminus between 6th and 7th streets. (Note: The street immediately next to the streetcar in this photograph, Garland Ave., has been realigned slightly since the photo was taken, and there is now a brick-paved boarding area and also a sidewalk between the track and the street.)
context_page_description: Fort Smith is the second-largest city in Arkansas and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 86,209. With an estimated population of 87,891 in 2019, it is the principal city of the Fort Smith, Arkansas–Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 298,592 residents that encompasses the Arkansas counties of Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian, and the Oklahoma counties of Le Flore and Sequoyah.
  Fort Smith has a sister city relationship with Cisterna, Italy, site of the World War II Battle of Cisterna, fought by United States Army Rangers commanded by Fort Smith native William O. Darby. The city also has a mutual friendship-city relationship with Jining, China.
  Fort Smith lies on the Arkansas-Oklahoma state border, situated at the confluence of the Arkansas and Poteau rivers, also known as Belle Point. Fort Smith was established as a western frontier military post in 1817, when it was also a center of fur trading. The city developed there. It became well known as a base for migrants' settling of the "Wild West" and for its law enforcement heritage.
context_section_description: There are multiple museums in Fort Smith, located primarily in the downtown area and the Chaffee Crossing Historic District
  United States Marshals Museum - scheduled to open in 2020
  Fort Smith Regional Art Museum opened to the public on January 19, 2013.
  Fort Smith Museum of History, located almost adjacent to the National Historic Site. The museum contains numerous exhibits, displays and artifacts that tell the story of Fort Smith's history—from the first fort in 1817, through the westward expansion, and on to the Civil War, the Gay Nineties, Fort Chaffee, and the emergence of a modern city.
  Fort Smith Trolley Museum is a railroad museum which displays a number of antique trolleys and related items. One of the trolley cars and three of the locomotives in its collection are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  Fort Smith Air Museum is dedicated to preserving the history of the development of aviation in Western Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma.
  The Clayton House Museum is the original home of William H.H. Clayton. It is open for tours and rentals for weddings, meetings, events, and much more. The house holds many Clayton artifacts, and boldly tells the history of Mr. Clayton as well as the western frontier
  Chaffee Barbershop Museum - located in the Chaffee Crossing Historic District in east Fort Smith, this museum was the location where, on March 25, 1958, Elvis Presley received his iconic G.I buzz cut
caption: The Fort Smith Trolley Museum offers trolley rides year-round.
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