The St. Joseph Museums and Friends of the Rolling Hills Library are teaming up to offer a trip in March to explore the arts in the Ozarks.

The first stop will be Sandstone Gardens in Joplin for shopping and dining. The majority of the trip will be spent in Bentonville, Arkansas, where travelers will stay at the 21c Museum Hotel. Kathy Reno with the St. Joseph Museums said the hotel is one of only a few like it in the country.

“It’s an art museum of contemporary art with a hotel, with a chef,” Reno said. “It is beyond beautiful and the art constantly rotates.”

The trip also includes dining at The Preacher’s Son, seeing the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and touring a Frank Lloyd Wright home.

“Crystal Bridges Museum of Art was designed by the same man that designed the Center for Performing Arts in Kansas City,” Reno said. “He’s created a unique pavilion that surrounds a huge body of water and it’s in tune with its environment. What I fell in love with the first time was the nature trails. So even if… you don’t think you’re an art person, it’s not just about art, it’s charming if you are a nature person, if you’re an architecture person.”

The Arts in the Ozarks trip will leave at 8 a.m. on March 15th, from the St. Joseph Museums and will return to St. Joseph at 9 p.m. on March 16th.

The trip includes meals, transportation and accommodations. For more information and pricing, click here, call (816) 232-8471 ext. 13 or [email protected].