Museums in Mississippi

This Hattiesburg museum honors Black Americans who have served in the military, highlighting homegrown heroes.

Young Emmett Till's tragic story, which sparked America's civil rights movement, is retold near the site where it occurred.

A free museum that memorializes the deadliest river flood in American history, and the civil engineering efforts to tame the Mississippi River.

An enormous, interactive museum with star-studded exhibits is surprisingly found deep in the Mississippi Delta.

The centerpiece of the Delta Blues Museum is a wooden sharecropper’s cabin that once housed a titan of blues music.

A cheeky alleyway window hosts tiny rotating exhibits with outsized charm.

A 1980s tour bus that traveled millions of miles to facilitate a superlatively rigorous performing career.

The last intact steam engine factory in the United States.

A museum in Mississippi celebrates the history of Coca-Cola and the man who brought it to the masses.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.