University of Mississippi Museum Education Blog

Hello! I'm the Library Sloth and I'm taking over the Museum! Well, not the whole Museum, just the Museum Education blog!  Like the Museum said last week, Archives and Special Collections has been working very hard to commemorate Mississippi's 200th Birthday! We saw your Monday Museum Mysteries and knew we couldn't let you have all the fun!  Once a month in 2017, I'll be taking over the Museum's Education Blog to share things from our collection! Hopefully you'll get to see even more cool stuff and come visit me at JD Williams Library!  For our first takeover, we're celebrating Black History Month!  While most famous for her poetry and academic work at Jackson State University, this Mississippi author wrote in a number of different mediums: poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. These are some of the books this author published in the course of her life, any clue who she might be?  Can you think of other Mississippi authors, who wro...

Look who we found hanging around the Museum!  This the Library Sloth ; he lives in Archives and Special Collections and said he wanted to come visit US because of the work we're doing related to Mississippi's Bicentennial ! He told us Archives and Special Collections have also been hard at work commemorating our state's 200th Birthday and wanted us to share what they've been up to! Mississippi: 200 Years of Statehood is on display through December 11, 2017 at in the Faulkner Room at JD Williams Library. The exhibit features a wide array of items including 18th century maps, historical textbooks, territorial documents, women's suffrage and civil rights memorabilia! Open 8am-5pm, Monday through Friday (except for University holidays) this exhibit is a can't miss!  Did you know it takes 6 to 8 MONTHS for Archives and Special Collections to develop their exhibits? Be sure to stop by and see all their hard work! Archives and Special Collections...