An artist's depiction shows the Sultana steamboat engulfed in flames on the Mississippi River near Memphis in 1865. Credit: Courtesy: Sultana Disaster Museum The country’s biggest maritime disaster ...

Construction on a new site in Marion for an east Arkansas museum that tells the story of "the worst maritime disaster in American history" is expected to begin March 4, the preservation society behind ...

As the preparation continues to move the Sultana Disaster Museum to a location that is 20 times larger than its current one, a new executive director has been hired to oversee the move and the ...

The new Sultana Disaster Museum was set to open in Marion next April, but the opening has been postponed mainly for funding reasons, according to an email obtained by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

I first stepped into a former gymnasium near downtown Marion with John Fogleman, who served 26 years as a circuit judge in ...

MARION, Ark. - An expansion is coming to an historical museum across the Mississippi River from Memphis that's directly related to Ol' Man River. Construction will soon start to expand the 1,000 ...

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Learn how the museum in Marion, AR preserves the 1865 Sultana explosion, with events like Music at the Mound supporting its mission.

If you haven’t heard of the Sultana, it’s not because Doug Stout, and Dan Fleming, and Chris Evans, and a number of us local historians haven’t tried to let you know about it. On April 27, 1865, after ...

Jeff Kollath, the executive director of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, is stepping down. On Thursday, the museum announced that Kollath would be leaving his post on June 30, after more than ...