Mississippi Museum of Art

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Mississippi Museum of Art
Mississippi Museum of Art and The Art Garden at the Mississippi Museum of Art.jpg
Museum and Art Garden in 2012
Mississippi Museum of Art
Location380 South Lamar Street
Jackson, Mississippi
Coordinates 32°17′47″N90°11′08″W / 32.29626°N 90.18569°W / 32.29626; -90.18569
Type Art museum
Website www.msmuseumart.org

The Mississippi Museum of Art(MMA) is a public museum in Jackson, Mississippi. It is the largest museum in Mississippi.

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Location

It is located at the corner of 380 South Lamar Street and 201 East Pascagoula Street in Jackson, Mississippi. [1] [2] [3]

History

The Mississippi Art Association was founded in 1911. [2] By 1978, the Mississippi Museum of Art was founded, and it was located in the Arts Center of Mississippi until 2007. [1] [2] In November 2025 the MMA acquired the midcentury Fountainhead residence in Jackson, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the Usonian style. [4]

Permanent collection

The museum is the largest museum in Mississippi. [2] Its permanent collection includes paintings by American, Mississippi and British painters as well as photographs, collage artworks and sculptures. [5]

American painters

Photography, collage and sculpture

Mississippi and Southern artists

References

  1. 1 2 "Mississippi Museum of Art". www.msmuseumart.org. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Lee Ellis, Free Tours, Museums and Sites in America: Southern States Series, Americana Group Publishing, 2003, pp. 108-109
  3. ↑ Joseph M. Flora, Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan, Todd W. Taylor, The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2002, p. 381
  4. ↑ Chen, Min (November 20, 2025). "Iconic Frank Lloyd Wright Home Acquired by Mississippi Museum". artnet. Retrieved November 22, 2025.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 "Mississippi Museum of Art". www.msmuseumart.org. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Works – William Beckwith – Artists – eMuseum". mma.emuseum.com. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
  7. ↑ "Vanity" not dated, oil on canvas, Gift of the Lyle Cashion Company, 1963.005
  8. ↑ "Vogue for Two" not dated, watercolor on paper, Mississippi Art Association purchase, 1967.001
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