List of museums in Mississippi

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.

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.

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"] ".

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): [ [http://www.visitmississippi.org/cultural_historical/cultural_museums.asp "Search below for Mississippi museums" Web page] , Mississippi Convention and Visitors Bureau website. Retrieved February 7, 2007]
*Delta ("Delta"): Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, Grenada, Holmes, Humphries, Issaqueena, Leflore, Montgomery, Quitman, Sharkey, Sunflower, Tallahachie, Tunica, Washington.
*East central ("Pines"): Attala, Clarke, Clay, Chocktaw, 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

ee also

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* Historic landmarks in Mississippi
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* Museums list
* Nature Centers in Mississippi
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* Registered Historic Places in Mississippi

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