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List of museums in Mississippi

List of museums in Mississippi

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This list of museums in Mississippi encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

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Mississippi has a relatively large number of museums focused on Blues music (noted under "Music" in the type column of the table below).

The "Regions" column in the table refers to regional areas with boundaries used by the Mississippi Convention and Visitors Bureau (but with neutral names), as described in the "Regions" section below.

Museums

To use the sortable table, click on the icons at the top of each column to sort that column in alphabetical order; click again for reverse alphabetical order. Museums focusing on ethnic or racial groups are sorted as "Ethnic-[Name]".

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Defunct museums

Regions

The "Region" column of this list follows the regional divisions of the Mississippi Convention and Visitors Bureau, which breaks the state into these five areas (generic names here replace all but one of the bureau's names, which may have been designed for advertising purposes):[51]

  • Delta ("Delta"): Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, Grenada, Holmes, Humphries, Issaqueena, Leflore, Montgomery, Quitman, Sharkey, Sunflower, Tallahachie, Tunica, Washington.
  • East central ("Pines"): Attala, Clarke, Clay, Choctaw, Lauderdale, Leake, Lowndes, Neshoba, Newton, Oktibbeha, Kemper, Scott, Smith, Jasper, Webster
  • North ("Hills"): Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chicksaw, DeSoto, Ittawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Marshall, Monroe, Panola, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union, Yalobusha.
  • Southeast ("Coastal"): Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Marion, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Pearl River, Perry, Stone, Wayne
  • Southwest ("Capital/River"): Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lawrence, Lincoln, Madison, Pike, Rankin, Simpson, Walthall, Warren, Wilkinson, Yazoo

See also

Notes

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    "Baseball: Ferriss Museum". Delta State Athletics. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
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    "Causeyville General Store". Meridian/Lauderdale County Tourism Bureau. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
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    "Deason Home". City of Ellisville. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
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    "Facebook site". Deason Home. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
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    "Official site". Greenville Arts Council. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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    "Official site". Merrehope and F.W. Williams. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
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    "Gateway to the Blues Visitors Center and Museum". Tunica Travel. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
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    "Greene County Museum". Visit Mississippi. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
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    "Greenwood Blues Heritage Museum & Gallery". Visit Greenwood. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
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    "Historical Sites in Grenada". Visit Grenada. Archived from the original on 22 April 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
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    "Visit". Holland Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
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    "Jackson's Public Fire Safety Education Center and Fire Museum". New Southern View. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
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    "Attractions". Visit Belzoni. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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    "Jerry Clower Museum". Amite County, Mississippi. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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    "Birthplace of Kermit The Frog Museum". Roadtrippers. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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    "Leland, Mississippi: Jim Henson Museum, Birthplace of Kermit the Frog". Roadside America. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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    "Tourism: Historic Kemper County". Kemper County, Mississippi. Archived from the original on 8 June 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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    "Key Brothers Aviation Exhibit". Visit Meridian. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
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    "Kosciusko Museum and Visitors Center". Scenic Trace Parkway. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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    "Kossuth Museum". Visit Mississippi. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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    "About us". Monticello, Mississippi. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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    "Marion County Museum". Visit Mississippi. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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    "Mississippi 4-H Museum". Mississippi State University. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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    "Mississippi Music Museum". Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
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    "Mississippi Music Museum opens in Hazlehurst". Copiah County Courier. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
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    "About the Museum". Museum of Mississippi History. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
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    "Artifact Collection Moved to Museums". Mississippi Department of Archives and History. August 21, 2017. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
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    "Natchez Museum of African Art and Heritage". National Geographic. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
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    "A place of History: Natchez Museum of African Art and Heritage". ListenUpYall.com. September 2013. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
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    "Neshoba County-Philadelphia Historical Museum". Visit Mississippi. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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    "North Delta Museum". Visit Clarksdale. Archived from the original on 12 April 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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    "Noxubee County Historical Society Museum". Visit Mississippi. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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    "Museums". Visit Yazoo. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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    Smith, Tammy (February 19, 2017). "Fascinating stories await at the Old Firehouse Museum in Wiggins". sunherald. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
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    "Oren Dunn City of Tupelo Museum". City of Tupelo. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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    "Facebook site". Oren Dunn City Museum. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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    "Verandah-Curlee House". Civil War Trust. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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    "Facebook site". Veterans Memorial Museum. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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    "Waveland's Ground Zero Hurricane Museum – MSGCNHA". Retrieved 2022-12-12.
  48. [48]
    National Register Digital Assets – Waveland Elementary School
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    "Holly Springs, Mississippi: Yellow Fever Martyrs Church Museum". Roadside America. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  50. [50]
    http://www.roadsideamerica.com/news/16615 Roadside America report
  51. [51]
    "Search below for Mississippi museums" Web page, Mississippi Convention and Visitors Bureau website. Retrieved February 7, 2007
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