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The National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium is home to museum exhibits on the culture and history of America's rivers. The campus also includes over a dozen aquariums featuring wildlife representative of that found in the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico and other river systems and deltas, including giant catfish, sturgeon, ducks, frogs, turtles, rays, octopodes, river otters, and ...
The museum opened in 1982 with the goal of "preserv[ing] and promot[ing] the natural and cultural history of the Lower Mississippi River Valley". [ 1 ] In 1990, businessman Sidney Shlenker (known locally for managing construction of the Memphis Pyramid ) planned to shut down the museum to make space for new bars and restaurants on the island.
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.
The Water Resources Development Act of 1992 authorized the Lower Mississippi River Museum and Riverfront Interpretive Site. Consultation was directed with the Smithsonian Institution in the planning and design of the museum and site and with the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service in the planning, design, and implementation ...
LeFleur's Bluff State Park is a public recreation area located on the banks of the Pearl River off Interstate 55 within the city limits of Jackson, Mississippi. The state park is home to a 50-acre (20 ha) lake, the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, and the Mississippi Children's Museum. [2]
Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum Y Tennessee: Memphis: Mississippi River Museum: Texas: Corpus Christi: USS Lexington on the Bay Museum: Texas: Fredericksburg: Chester Nimitz Museum of the Pacific War: Texas: Galveston: Seawolf Park: Texas: Galveston: Texas Seaport Museum: Y Texas: Galveston: Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum: Texas
William M. Black is a steam-propelled, sidewheel dustpan dredge, named for William Murray Black, now serving as a museum ship in the harbor of Dubuque, Iowa.Built in 1934, she is one of a small number of surviving steam-powered dredges, and one of four surviving United States Army Corps of Engineers dredges.
The National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium is the signature attraction in the Port of Dubuque. Affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution , it is the largest of its kind, and includes dozens of interactive, family-friendly exhibits.