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ESSE Purse Museum

About ESSE Purse Museum

The ESSE Purse Museum is a museum located in Little Rock, Arkansas featuring women's handbags, and the day-to-day items carried in them, illustrating the stories of American women's lives during the 1900s. Special topic exhibits are hosted, and the museum has a gift shop. The museum's name is derived from the Latin infinitive for "to be".

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Fashion museum
Founded
2013

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Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within a mile of ESSE Purse Museum; the closest, Emoba Museum of Black Arkansans, is about a mile away.