Arabia Steamboat Museum

Kitchen spices and farm implements, fine porcelain and French perfume are several artifacts that provide an intriguing glimpse of frontier life during 1856, from the Arabia Steamboat. Inside this privately-owned museum, beautiful exhibits display cargo slated for 16 towns, which sank in the Missouri River when an embedded walnut tree trunk ripped through the steamboat's hull. More than a century after the River changed course Bob Hawley, his sons David and Greg, and family friends, David Luttrell and Jerry unearthed this enormous vessel from a farm field. Learn about the Arabia excavation during a short movie and you perhaps meet one of these modern-day explorers during Q&A. Visitors can also glimpse of real magic, as preservationists in a windowed lab restore additional items to their original beauty.