Museer i Mississippi

Heritage & Museums of Mississippi

Mississippi's historical landscape is preserved through a diverse array of museums and landmarks. This collection features the Tupelo birthplace of Elvis Presley and the Jackson home of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty. In Vicksburg, the Old Court House and Lower Mississippi River Museum explore regional governance and the waterway's ecological impact. The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi showcases avant-garde ceramics within a Frank Gehry-designed campus, while Hattiesburg’s African American Military History Museum honors service members within a historic USO building. The Old Capitol Museum in Jackson highlights the state's political evolution since 1839.