Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Nominated for ‘Best History Museum’ in the 2025 USA TODAY’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards
This is the second consecutive time the museum has been nominated. Voting begins January 13.
The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum (MCRM) has been nominated – for the second consecutive time – for the Best History Museum in the United States in USA TODAY’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards.
Voting begins on Monday, Jan. 13, at noon EST and ends on Monday, Feb. 10, at 11:59 a.m. EST. The top 10 winners, as ranked by USA TODAY 10Best readers, will be announced on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at noon EST. Readers can vote here.
“We are honored that the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum has been nominated again in the category of Best History Museum,” said Michael Morris, director of the Two Mississippi Museums – The Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. “This recognition comes from the collective efforts of staff and visitors to elevate this museum among top institutions in the country.”
Visitors to MCRM are greeted with a timeline of African American history in Mississippi before moving to interactive exhibits that chronicle the events of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement from World War II through 1975.
The museum also embraces complex stories of Mississippians like Medgar Evers, James Meredith, Fannie Lou Hamer, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, and Vernon Dahmer with unflinching academic rigor, engaging visitors through historic records, artifacts, impactful programming, curated exhibits, and archival photographs and footage.
The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum opened in tandem with the Museum of Mississippi History on Dec. 9, 2017, in celebration of the state's bicentennial and is administered by MDAH. The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum explores the period from 1945 to 1976 when Mississippi was ground zero for the Civil Rights Movement nationally. The Museum of Mississippi History explores the entire sweep of Mississippi’s territorial and state history and the inhabitants of its land.
For more information, call 601-576-6850 or email info@mdah.ms.gov.