The ESSE Purse Museum located on South Main Street is a museum devoted to purses and the history of purses. It is the only museum in the United States that is exclusively dedicated to handbags. The museum’s permanent display is entitled A Century of Women and Handbags 1900-1999, and it explores the evolution of handbags, the women who carried them, and what they carried in their purses.

Temporary exhibits at the museum include Pinafores, Purses & Pigtails, Common Threads: A Special Exhibit Woven of Four Parts, Handbags for Hillary, and many more.

1510 South Main Street, Little Rock, Arkansas, Phone: 501-916-9022

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