Hampson Museum State Park
| Hampson Archeological Museum State Park | |
| Arkansas state park | |
 Hampson Museum, 2010
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| Named for: James K. Hampson | |
| Country | United States |
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| State | Arkansas |
| Regions | Arkansas Delta |
| County | Mississippi |
| City | Wilson |
| Location | Park Office |
| - coordinates | 35°34′13″N 90°2′25″W / 35.57028°N 90.04028°WCoordinates: 35°34′13″N 90°2′25″W / 35.57028°N 90.04028°W |
| Area | 5 acres (2 ha) |
| Dedicated | 1961 |
| Management | Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism |
| Former name | Hampson Museum State Park |
 Location of Hampson Archeological Museum State Park in Arkansas
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| Website: Hampson Archeological Museum State Park | |
Hampson Archeological Museum State Park is a 5-acre (2.0 ha) Arkansas state park in Mississippi County, Arkansas in the United States. The museum contains a collection of archeological artifacts from the Nodena Site, which is a former Native American village on the Mississippi River between 1400 and 1650.James K. Hampson began excavating the site in the 1920s, a museum was built in 1946 and the Arkansas General Assembly officially accepted the collection of artifacts from the Hampson family on March 30, 1957. The park first opened in 1961 as Hampson Museum State Park and has since been renamed.
Around 1400-1650 CE an aboriginal palisaded village existed in the Nodena area on a meander bend of the Mississippi River. Artifacts from this site are on display in the Hampson Museum State Park.
The museum is named after Dr. James K. Hampson, a local landowner and archaeologist.
About 5 mi (8 km) east of Wilson, at the Nodena Site, archeological artifacts from an aboriginal village of the Nodena people dated 1400-1650 CE were found in the first half of the 20th century.
A collection of these artifacts is on display at the Hampson Museum State Park. The museum documents the culture of the civilization of the Nodena people, who lived in a 15-acre (6.1 ha) palisaded village on a horseshoe bend of the Mississippi River in the Wilson, Arkansas area. Cultivation of crops, hunting, social life, religion and politics of that ancient civilization are topics of the exhibition.
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