The Walmart Museum

The actual museum was closed for remodeling in late December. They have a temporary one setup a couple blocks away. The temp one is small and pretty lame. It will take you 5 minutes to check it out. It's not worth going out of the way to visit.

Plan your visit today. Great location with some really useful technology to get to know the company, culture and history.

You will not be disappointed by the innovative museum and really insightful artifacts.

Our tour guide Tim and he was amazing. Very personable and kind. Really enjoyed my visit and hope to bring my family by next time.

Try the bingo card scavenger hunt for fun!

Free museum in Bentonville, Arkansas at the original Walmart. Went there a week ago. It's like North Korea levels of corporate propaganda here.

You know what you WON'T learn at this museum?

Walmart is one of the companies with the most workers on federally-funded social safety net programs such as SNAP (food stamps) & Medicaid to help pay for healthcare and food assistance, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office.

You, the tax payer, are subsidizing the OG Welfare Qween, Walmart's, poverty wages. They keep prices low by using sweatshop made goods and not paying their employees a livable wage!

You won't hear about that at this museum, but you will hear every alt-right crypto bro libertarian talking point about how people like Sam Walton are magical American heroes who are just playing within the rules. The museum even has his Presidential Medal of Freedom (yeah) on display.

Walmart, pay your workers a livable wage. Your Walton family allegedly owns a $200k exotic wood staircase in one of their local mansions, so you can obviously afford it.

Doing tourist things after hearing that NW Arkansas was a must visit for people with small kids. This was on the list of to-do's as we had a short weekend visit to the Bentonville area. .....Great place to see all of the Walmart information!!!! .. Not a bad time at all.
We got to see play and do so MANY things Walmart and the girls loved the candy shop out front and the ice cream stop at the end.

The bathrooms were clean. I was pleasantly surprised.

The parking is close!...& I liked the exercise...our girls napped so hard after the visit. I am in firm belief that the overall planning and logistics of this place are professionally done & handled well!

This venue is a must visit if in the area.
The girls had a blast and that is what matters most!!
10/10 times I will return.. for the price I paid (free) I could see myself doing this again with a longer stay in the area!

Sidenote the people in guest service station were super awesome!.

It was well worth it!


We will be back. The ice cream prices in the ice cream shop...family of 4 for under $10... couldn't be beat!

Respectfully,
Bryan and family
(We love Walmart)
Oklahoma City

What a great and free Museum to learn about the history if Walmart.
The staff here is amazing and the history was awesome.
I can't wait to go back because there was so much more history I could've read about, but we got there too late and they were closing.

The people were amazing. The museum is being renovated so the location is a block away(renovation should be complete in 2024. The staff were so amazing and helpful with personal care and interesting stories. Made the experience so much better. Great insight to the foundations of Walmart and it's free!

The Walmart is the success company that was born in this city. If you like to know how empire business started and developed, you will learn from the Walton's family. You will see the first store, and the end you can eat an ice cream in a 50's small dinner.

A cute little museum with free admission! The "Returned Items" section is amusing.. you'll either laugh or facepalm at the absurdity of past Walmart customers. It's located in a very walkable area of downtown Bentonville with nearby coffee shops, restaurants, and a park. Definitely recommend adding to your roadtrip itinerary.

I'm not a Walmart person, but when in Rome, right?! Fairly interesting free museum about the history of the Walton family and Walmart. Of course they only tell you about the good stuff and none of the controversies. A lot of reading- definitely not young kid friendly. The best part is the close by old fashioned soda shoppe. The young kids working there were sweet, and they made us a yummy phosphate- blackberry & coconut with Dr. Pepper.

These corporate historical stores are generally too self serving for my and I was not expecting to get much out o fit. I was wrong, I enjoyed the tour, the look back at history and the Sam Walton time line and the little store out front with nostalgic treats and gifts was fun to explore.

Inside is what seems to be a replica of Sam Walton's office and it looks very authentic for the time period. It seems most if not all of it was taken from the actual office and I'm impressed that someone thought to save it and put it all back together.

The rest of the museum ties the Walmart history to the history of the US, retail, and department stores. Some things that are important to my and my own career.
Next store is an old fashioned ice cream and soda fountain. It all sits on a lovely little square surrounded by other charming stores, antique shops, art galleries and restaurants.

We were thinking we'd stop in for a minute while we were waiting for our reservation at a nearby Italian restaurant. We ended up exploring th square for several hours and could see coming back in the future.

If you're nearby, take 30 minutes to go see the museum and stay and hour or two enjoying the very accessible shopping and novelty shops and restaurants.