Make your first stop in Tunica the all-new Gateway to the Blues Visitors Center, located at the entrance of the Tunica Resort area along U.S. Highway 61. This new center, housed in an original 1895 train depot, is your exclusive source for up-to-the-minute information about Tunica. Its friendly staff is ready to assist you with directions, hotel in...
1003 W Sunflower Road
Cleveland,
MS
38733
662-846-4780
This museum honors the 85 year old Patriarch and Red Sox Hall of Fame member, Boo Ferriss. He was a teammate of Ted Williams. This facility was partially funded by the Yawkey Foundation/Boston Red Sox.
Ewing Hall Delta State University
Cleveland,
MS
38733
668-846-4311
The "life casts" are exact replicas of blues musicians faces, created using damp gauze and plaster. The results are astonishing, three-dimensional images of the facial structure of the musicians. This collection features 55 life casts of a disappearing generation of blues performers.
6575 Windchase Blvd
Horn Lake,
MS
38632
662-253-3100
www.acbl.org/
Located inside the American Contract Bridge League's headquarters, this state-of-the-art, interactive museum is home to the world's largest collection of bridge memorabilia, trophies, videos and other artifacts related to the game of bridge. The museum also contains the ACBL Hall of Fame, as well as the Albert H. Morehead Memorial Library. Situated...
Most of Jim
Anderson’s handmade stoneware pottery is thrown on a potter's wheel. He uses
the best quality stoneware clay available and mixes his glazes by hand. His
pottery is dishwasher safe, nontoxic, oven proof, and can be used in the
microwave. All of Jim’s pottery is made by hand, which attributes to the beauty
of his handma...
The B.B. King Museum is a 20,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility which uses the life story of world renowned blues artist, and native son, Riley (B.B.) King, as a framework to tell about the Mississippi Delta region and the origins and influence of blues music. Centered around the last standing brick cotton gin in Mississippi, the Museum uses...
Open all year except New Year's day, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Restored 1890 building where Coca-Cola was first bottled anywhere in the world in 1894. Museum contains reproduction bottling works, Coca-Cola memorabilia, 1900 soda fountain and restored 1890 candy store. Ice-cold Cokes, ice cream floats, Mississippi-made Luvel dipped ice cr...
The Mississippi Delta, and particularly Cleveland, is rich in visual and performing arts. At the center of the lively entertainment scene is the Bologna Performing Arts Center at Delta State University, which attracts nationally acclaimed shows from Blues to Broadway. The Wright Art Center Gallery, also on the Delta State Campus, features rot...
Collection of Mississippi pottery, artifacts, and archaeological research materials
252 Delta Avenue
Clarksdale,
MS
38614
662-624-5992
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