Events

Join us for Storytime on the Side Porch at the Eudora Welty House & Garden. The Eudora Welty House & Garden will present free summer book readings and activities for children in partnership with the Mississippi Library Commission. This…

This is Home: Medgar Evers, Mississippi, and the Movement exhibit will open at 9 a.m. on Thursday, June 1. This exhibit marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Medgar Evers by examining the life, death, and impact of the civil rights hero…

Enjoy our History Happy Hour at 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 1, at the Two Mississippi Museums! The event includes free admission, live entertainment, refreshments, and a cash bar. Guests can also join an interactive flash tour through the museums about…

Admission to the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum is free every Sunday. This includes admission to the temporary exhibit This Is Home: Medgar Evers, Mississippi, and the Movement. This exhibit will close on…

Tune in with Suzanne Marrs, Welty's friend and biographer, and Suzann Harrison, Eckerd College professor of rhetoric, for an online discussion of Virginia Woolf's novel, To the Lighthouse. For more information, visit welty.mdah.ms.gov/events, or…

At noon on Wednesday, June 7, Reena Evers-Everette, Dionne Bailey, Bobby Smith, and Pamela Walker will present “The Evers Archive: Voices, Justice, Legacies” as part of the History Is Lunch series. The program will take place in the Craig H. Neilsen…