A Guide to Mississippi Museums

Tag: Music

  • B.B. King Museum

    B.B. King Museum

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    Diane Williams
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    The B.B. King Museum website reflects the museum’s mantra: “Inspire Hope, Creativity, and Greatness.” The organization has something that few cultural institutions around the state have and that is their team of youth ambassadors thereby encouraging an entirely new generation of blues aficionados. It is not often that a museum named after a famous musician…

  • Jimmie Rodgers Museum

    Jimmie Rodgers Museum

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    Richelle Putnam
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    On May 26, 1953, the first Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Festival honored the 20th anniversary of the death of Jimmie Rodgers. In 1976, the Jimmie Rodgers Museum opened in Meridian’s historic Highland Park near the only two-row Dentzel Carousel in the world that whirls within the world’s only surviving Dentzel Carousel House. Today, an exquisite landmark…

  • Oren Dunn City Museum

    Oren Dunn City Museum

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    Diane Williams
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     Lee County Book Mobile: It was one of the first in the region to serve African Americans (1939-1965). A 19th Century Blacksmith Shop: Popular during the 19th century in many Mississippi towns. The shop bought and sold tools, equipment and other goods to the wealthy in the community. They made shoes for horses and mules…