Museum · Downtown
Two Mississippi Museums
222 North Street, Jackson 39201
A pair of state museums side by side downtown: the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. A lecture series and community conversations take place in its auditorium.
Permanent exhibitions
- Mississippi Civil Rights Museum: eight galleries on the freedom struggle, 1945-1976
- This Little Light of Mine, the central gallery of the Civil Rights Museum
- Museum of Mississippi History: the state's story from the first peoples to the present
- Mississippi's Native peoples, early settlement and statehood
- The Civil War, Reconstruction and the twentieth century in Mississippi
