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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.
Fifth oldest children's museum in the U.S.; founded in 1927 Children's Museum of the Highlands: Sebring: Florida: Opened in 1990 Children's Museum at Holyoke: Holyoke: Massachusetts: Founded in 1981 by the Junior League of Holyoke, [1] moved to current location in 1987. [2] Children's Museum of Houston: Houston: Texas: Founded in 1980; opened ...
The Mississippi Children's Museum is a children's museum with locations in Jackson, Mississippi and Meridian, Mississippi. The location in Jackson is situated within the LeFleur's Bluff Education and Tourism Complex, [1] and it was completed in 2010. [2] In 2021, the museum was awarded the National Medal for Museum and Library Service. [3] [4]
The Mississippi Children’s Museum is also expanding its after-school program, which currently serves more than 130 students in Jackson and Meridian, to include programs such as architecture ...
The Ohr–O'Keefe Museum Of Art is a non-profit art museum located in Biloxi, Mississippi, dedicated to the ceramics of George E. Ohr, the self-proclaimed "Mad Potter of Biloxi". The museum is named for ceramic artist George E. Ohr (1857–1918), as well as Annette O'Keefe, late wife of former Biloxi mayor Jeremiah Joseph O'Keefe III, who was ...
The Detroit Children's Museum (1917) [15] The Children's Museum of Indianapolis (1925) [16] – according to the ACM, this is the world's largest children's museum. [2] The Children's Museum (West Hartford, CT) (1927) [17] Duluth Children's Museum (1930) [18] By 1975, there were approximately 38 children's museums in the United States.
Local news outlets reported that the repurposed facility would house as many as 2,000 children and teens at the hotels that were part of the Harrah’s casino complex, which closed in 2014.
The Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum (MSIM) was established in 1986 to preserve and interpret the maritime history and heritage of Biloxi and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.It accomplishes this mission through an array of exhibits on shrimping, oystering, recreational fishing, wetlands, managing marine resources, charter boats, marine blacksmithing, wooden boat building, net-making, catboats ...