Other exhibits explore subjects such as song writing, producing and the history of the guitar. Exhibits such as Mississippi Music Legends, Mississippi Music Bar and Mississippi Music Trail And Timeline will explore the state's musical history and unique culture. Mono To Surround allows visitors to hear the evolution of sound through a custom listening experience while History Of Dance features a touch-sensitive, multi-coloured dance floor and dance tutorial video. On display are instruments, stage costumes and videos. The museum highlights the impact on modern music, as well as celebrate a broad range of musical styles recognised by the GRAMMY Awards such as pop, rock, jazz, hip-hop, classical and gospel. The first and only GRAMMY Museum outside Los Angeles is located in Cleveland, Mississippi and anticipated to be one of the most technologically advanced music-themed museums as the new facility explores Mississippi's deep musical roots.
The Museum of Mississippi History's theme - One Mississippi, Many Stories - runs throughout galleries that include a 500-year-old Native American dugout canoe discovered submerged in mud on the bank of a Mississippi lake, author Eudora Welty's manual typewriter and a recreated Delta juke joint that hops to the sounds of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Bo Diddley.
The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum includes the papers and artifacts of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, the doors of the Bryant Grocery that 14-year-old Emmett Till walked through before his fateful encounter with the shopkeeper that led to his murder a series of lighted columns that display the name of every known lynching victim in the state - more than 600 individuals and a dramatic two-story "This Little Light of Mine" sculpture that celebrates the hope of the Civil Rights Movement in song and light. They present the history of the state as never before with eye-popping artifacts, photographs, videos and so many interactive exhibits. The Two Mississippi Museums is a place where Mississippians tell their own stories of the state’s rich and complex history.
The two interconnected museums - Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum - In Jackson opened in celebration of the state’s bicentennial. Mississippi museums are plentiful and located throughout the state.Ĭleveland is home to the GRAMMY Museum, the first outside of Los Angeles, and honours all the award winners who came to the Magnolia State which is steeped in music. If going to a museum is your idea of a good time, you're in luck.