There are three known museums in the world that showcase handbags. One is the Simone Handbag Museum, a purse-shaped building in Seoul, South Korea.
Another — the Tassen Museum Hendrikje, or Museum of Bags and Purses — is in a historic canal house in Amsterdam, Helaine R. Williams writes in Tuesday's Style section.
And then there’s the recently-opened Esse Purse Museum, situated in Little Rock’s thriving South Main Street area.
Take a peek inside the post-World War II-era building remade into a sleek structure sporting glass-block windows and a silhouetted arm and hand appearing to clutch the red, purse-shaped museum sign, in tomorrow's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Style section.