21c Museum Hotel Bentonville

Name: 21c Museum Hotel Bentonville
Address: 200 NE A Street, Bentonville, AR, 72712, US
Telephone: +14792866500
Rating: 4.7

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Located on the northeast corner of the Bentonville town square and a short walk to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 21c Museum Hotel Bentonville is a 104-room boutique hotel, contemporary art museum, cultural center and home to The Hive restaurant, led by executive chef Matthew McClure.

09/03/2026

What was your favorite part of the night?

08/23/2026

When your wedding venue is a 24-hour contemporary art museum, a boutique hotel, and your caterer, all in one place.

Get ready in your room, celebrate surrounded by contemporary art, and stay the night without ever leaving the party. We’ll cater your celebration with award-winning High South dining, from the first bite to your late-night newlywed pillow fight.

08/12/2026

Grab a cocktail at the Hive to enjoy during our Thursday art tours led by our 21c Museum Manager. Gallery open 24/7, free to the public.

08/03/2026

Sound on for this one. Check out CORPUS hiding in plain sight at 21c Bentonville.

What are we? How did we get here? Where are we going? Elemental and enigmatic, questions surrounding our existence have haunted thinkers across time. To answer the unanswerable, humans turned first to religion and then to science. Still, these inquiries never waned, only gathering greater complexity. Today, they fascinate physicists and philosophers, mathematicians and theologians, astronomers, astrologists, artists, and countless other curious minds. Nancy Baker Cahill’s CORPUS, an artwork created using augmented reality technologies, takes these existential questions as prompts for contemplation, giving visual form to contemporary theoretical and scientific reconsiderations of the relationship between the human body, humanity, and the world at large.

Recent intellectual frameworks, such as the study of the microbiome and the field of affect theory, understand the boundaries between interior and exterior—once considered fixed—to be porous and permeable. The ecosystems that sustain us from the outside also sustain us from within. Or, as Baker Cahill succinctly summarizes, “We cannot be human without the more-than-human.” CORPUS points us toward this idea.

A digital organism viewable only through a screen, CORPUS resembles a human figure. It has a head and torso, arms and legs, and appears to breathe as its weight lumbers from side to side. Baker Cahill imagines CORPUS as a “future human,” though the future it proposes both subverts and expands conventional understandings of what it means to be human. Its body is a composite—part animal, machine, flora, lichen, microplastic, bacteria, and virus—symbiotically drawn together by computer and biological code. Eschewing hierarchies, CORPUS is entangled: a part of the world, not apart from it.

CORPUS was originally commissioned by the Future Humans program at the Berggruen Institute and was produced by Nancy Baker Cahill and Shaking Earth Digital. Generous support for the exhibition is provided by the Nicolas Berggruen Charitable Trust.

Nancy Baker Cahill (American, b. 1970)
CORPUS, 2022/2026
Augmented reality
Cour

07/31/2026

What are guests saying about 21c Bentonville?

07/30/2026

The holidays may feel far away, but the most memorable celebrations are planned long before the first string of lights goes up.

Whether you’re gathering an intimate team or hosting a celebration for up to 300 guests, 21c Museum Hotel offers a setting unlike anywhere else. With our largest gallery offering more than 2,500 square feet of flexible event space, award-winning cuisine from The Hive, and overnight accommodations under one roof, every detail is designed to turn a holiday party into an experience.

As a contemporary art museum that’s open 24/7, your event unfolds surrounded by thought-provoking installations and world-class exhibitions. Guests can even discover a hidden work by acclaimed artist Nancy Baker Cahill tucked within our main gallery—a conversation-starting surprise that makes every visit feel a little more extraordinary.

Holiday dates fill quickly. Now is the time to secure yours.
https://21cmuseumhotels.com/bentonville/meetings-events/

07/23/2026

Sound on for this one. Can you hear the flapping of bird wings? Juan Fontanive’s Ornithology 1 exists somewhere between film and sculpture.

The artist, who refers to his electronic flipbooks as “films without light,” intentionally harnesses the sound of the paper flapping, drawing parallels between the gentle hum of birds in flight and the sound of 16mm film going through a projector. The birds on these pages are sourced from 18th and 19th century natural history illustrations; the still images are transformed into a type of animation, though as the artist notes, “There is no motion in the moving image, it is made of still frames shown in succession. So motion as a medium in animation does not actually exist. This is what interests me: the illusion. Often, my subject matter has to do with exposing this deception, while at the same time retaining the illusion intact.” While their appearance is less surreal than hybrid combinations of different species, Fontanive’s creatures also emerge from a supernatural realm where nature, technology, and imagination intertwine. Says critic Gilda Williams, “The artist’s flapping hummingbirds and rushing fish are sculptural animations, or perhaps automata: machine-powered facsimiles of life. Automata were, famously, among the principal triggers of uncanny experience for Freud. The uncanny erupts in our encounter with an undecided being who occupies a state between life and death.”

07/21/2026

Coffee with the Mayor Stephanie Orman at 21c Bentonville this morning included great input from members of Downtown Bentonville, Inc. PlayBentonville Perry Ryan Theater Company The Scott Family Amazeum and 21c Museum Hotel Bentonville! Thank you to everyone who joined to chat about our city. To locals, this is an incredible city to call home. To visitors, mark Bentonville, Arkansas as your next travel destination!

07/07/2026

Elevate your stay in our 21c Suite

Designed for those who appreciate a little more room to unwind, the 21c Suite features a spacious living area, separate bedroom, plush king bed, oversized bathroom with a soaking tub, and a private terrace overlooking downtown Bentonville. Located in the heart of downtown, you’re just steps from world-class art, local dining, shopping, and cycling trails.

Surrounded by contemporary art, thoughtful design, and maybe even one of our iconic Green Penguins waiting to greet you, every stay is equal parts inspiring and unforgettable at 21c.

07/06/2026

From world-renowned art at Crystal Bridges to miles of mountain bike trails, local flavors at the Bentonville Farmers Market, family adventures at the Amazeum, and peaceful moments in nature, 21c Museum Hotel Bentonville puts you just steps from it all.

Your Bentonville summer starts here.

Address

200 NE A Street
Bentonville, AR
72712

Telephone

+14792866500

Website

http://www.21cBentonville.com/

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