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6 Things to Do by Bike Around Crystal Bridges

6 Things to Do by Bike Around Crystal Bridges

Nature & Outdoor

Five miles of trails, mountain bike trails, rides to downtown Bentonville, and more!

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Winter on the Crystal Bridges Trails

Winter on the Crystal Bridges Trails

Nature & Outdoor

In this blog, Landscape Grounds Technician Joanna Mentzer points out plants and phenomena that can be seen along the museum’s trails in the winter season. 

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Crystal Bridges Announces An Outdoor Play Space and New Parking Deck, Coming Soon

Crystal Bridges Announces An Outdoor Play Space and New Parking Deck, Coming Soon

At the Museum Nature & Outdoor

Crystal Bridges is making way for a four-acre community playscape called Convergence and a parking deck with programmable space on the southeast side of Crystal Bridges’ campus.  Convergence, a collaborative…

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Q&A with Grounds Director Clay Bakker: The Crystal Bridges "Garden"

Q&A with Grounds Director Clay Bakker: The Crystal Bridges "Garden"

Nature & Outdoor
CB: Our 120 acres are very typical of what you’ll find anywhere else in the middle of the Ozarks. We have a plethora of insects, birds, reptiles, and mammals, such…
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Hydration Station Gets A New Look - Thanks Coca-Cola!

Hydration Station Gets A New Look - Thanks Coca-Cola!

At the Museum Nature & Outdoor

Updates to the Hydration Station The Hydration Station, located at the Shuttle Stop in the Additional Parking lot at Crystal Bridges, is getting a refreshed look, thanks to our partner,…

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The Summer of Nature: Reducing Waste with Coca-Cola

The Summer of Nature: Reducing Waste with Coca-Cola

At the Museum Nature & Outdoor

At the beginning of this year, Crystal Bridges decided to increase its effort to reduce waste museum-wide. In order to make this initiative possible, the museum partnered with Coca-Cola, a…

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Chihuly Favorites Are Back--Permanently!

Chihuly Favorites Are Back--Permanently!

Art & Collection Nature & Outdoor

Dale Chihuly’s “Golden Sun”, which was developed for Crystal Bridges to complement the backdrop of the Ozark forest, is in the North Forest near the food court area.   Niijima…

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#ArtistatCB: Athena LaTocha

#ArtistatCB: Athena LaTocha

At the Museum Exhibitions Nature & Outdoor

At Crystal Bridges, we’re committed to exploring the unfolding story of America. Through the 2014 State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now exhibition, the museum introduced 102 artists who live and…

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My Time on the Sod Squad: Prepping the Forest for Chihuly

My Time on the Sod Squad: Prepping the Forest for Chihuly

Nature & Outdoor People & Community
Crystal Bridges has a professional team who manages our 120 acres of forested grounds. It's a small, but DYNAMIC group of 8 men and women who keep everything mulched, watered,…
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The April Fool Strikes Again: Dinosaur Finds Halt Construction at Crystal Bridges          

The April Fool Strikes Again: Dinosaur Finds Halt Construction at Crystal Bridges          

Nature & Outdoor

Bentonville — As workers were making improvements to Crystal Bridges’ trails last week, an unexpected discovery forced them to halt all construction while scientists study the find.  A backhoe operator…

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The Four Seasons: Philip Haas interprets Giuseppe Arcimboldo

The Four Seasons: Philip Haas interprets Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Art & Collection Exhibitions Nature & Outdoor

Philip Haas’s set of monumental outdoor sculptures, The Four Seasons, are on display on the grounds at Crystal Bridges through the summer. These colorful and fanciful works are a perfect…

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A Look at Crystal Bridges Bloomers

A Look at Crystal Bridges Bloomers

Nature & Outdoor
The dogwoods are blooming!  Now that the leaves on the trees have turned the forest green, the white and pink blooms of Crystal Bridges’ dogwoods really pop!  Here on the…
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Scholarship at Crystal Bridges: A Tyson Scholar's Perspective

Scholarship at Crystal Bridges: A Tyson Scholar's Perspective

Art & Collection Library Nature & Outdoor

Tyson Scholar Amy Torbert is a little more than half way through her nine-month research residency at Crystal Bridges. For today’s post, she takes time off from her dissertation to offer an…

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A Canvas for an Architectural Masterpiece

A Canvas for an Architectural Masterpiece

Architecture Nature & Outdoor

As the reconstruction of the Bachman-Wilson House at Crystal Bridges wraps up, final touches are also being applied to the landscape surrounding the house.  The Trails and Grounds crew has…

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Bring in the Drone!

Bring in the Drone!

Architecture Nature & Outdoor

There are a number of locations at Crystal Bridges that offer stunning views of the Museum architecture and landscape.  However, the constrictions of the Museum’s site—down inside a ravine, surrounded…

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A Conversation with the Conservator

A Conversation with the Conservator

Art & Collection Nature & Outdoor

Conservation is an ongoing concern in any museum, whether it be an art museum, natural history museum, or archive. Crystal Bridges works regularly with various conservators who keep tabs on…

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Introducing CB Outdoors!

Introducing CB Outdoors!

Activities & Education At the Museum Nature & Outdoor

Another community activity within the app is tours. Of course there are the tours created by the Museum, but in this app we have also included the ability for you…

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Cleaning the Fish

Cleaning the Fish

Art & Collection Exhibitions Library Nature & Outdoor

Fish Stories is a temporary exhibition featuring 20 color prints from Game Fishes of the United States, 1879 -1880, illustrated by Samuel A. Kilbourne (1836-1881), which is in the collection of the…

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Bachman-Wilson House Update

Bachman-Wilson House Update

Architecture Nature & Outdoor

Anyone who has visited Crystal Bridges’ South Lawn in the past few weeks has observed the back wall of the Bachman-Wilson House as it has gradually risen into view over…

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Capturing Nature in Clay: An Autumn Project

Capturing Nature in Clay: An Autumn Project

Activities & Education At the Museum Exhibitions Nature & Outdoor

Cooler weather is upon us, and many of us, including me, treasure those last warm days of the year. As an Art Instructor for a museum that has over 3.5…

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