
LOCATION USA
ATTRACTION TYPE Museum/gallery
OPENING YEAR 2020
BUDGET $60,000,000
SUMMARY
An ambitious project to build a national U.S. Marshals Museum is well underway. Located in historic Fort Smith, where the U.S. Marshals originally launched across the Arkansas River to hunt fugitives in the Oklahoma Territory, the museum will serve as a national center of heritage and legacy and will include 20,000 square feet of exhibit space. Designed by Cambridge Seven Associates along with Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects, renderings of the museum show the building’s star-shaped design, along with its use of bronze, pays homage to the badges worn by marshals in earlier years. The U.S. Marshals Museum Foundation estimates that it has about $15 million left to raise for the project’s $60 million capital campaign. Approximately $8 million of that will be used to start production on creating the museum experience. California-based exhibit designers Thinkwell have created five permanent galleries: To Be A Marshal, The Campfire- Stories Under The Stars, Frontier Marshals, A Changing Nation and Modern Marshals. CDI Construction completed construction as of February 2020, and pending fundraising success, the museum will open in late 2020. (Updated 2 March 2020)

CONTACTS
Administrative Office
14 North 3rd Street, Suite D
Fort Smith, AK 72901
USA
Cacey Faber
Museum Coordinator
+1 479 709 3766
David Kennedy
Head of Collections
+1 479 709 3766
Patrick Weeks
CEO/President
+1 479 709 3766
+1 501 666 43003000 Cantrell Road
Little Rock, AR 72202
USA
Cambridge Seven Architects
+1 617 492 70001050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02138
USA
Peter Kuttner
Principal
info@cambridgeseven.com
Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects
+1 501 367 22422222 Cottondale Lane, Suite 100
Little Rock, Arkansas 72202
USA
Reese Rowland
Principal
rrowland@polkstanleywilcox.com
Thinkwell Group
+1 818 333 34442710 Media Center Drive
Los Angeles CA 90065
USA
Cynthia Sharpe
Principal Cultural Attractions and Research
brains@thinkwellgroup.com