Public Galleries
Mississippi State is home to a number of different museums and galleries that span multiple disciplines. Please click on the link to learn more about each gallery including hours of operation and contact information.
Art & Architecture
Located on the 2nd floor of the Colvard Student Union, the Student Union Art Gallery showcases rotating exhibitions of regional and national scope.
Managed by Student Activities office.
Phone: 662-325-2930
Monday - Friday 8am - 10pm
Saturday & Sunday 10am - 10pm
The Department of Art manages the Old Main Art Gallery, featuring rotating art exhibitions by nationally recognized artists, students, and MSU faculty.
Visit the website for complete details on all current, upcoming, and past exhibitions or call the Department of Art Office 662-325-2970. You can also find us on Facebook: MSU Art Galleries
Phone: 662-325-2970
Hours vary, depending on exhibits. Please see departmental website or Facebook page.
Located in the T. K. Martin Center, the Martha Lipsey Gallery features the art of EXPRESS Yourself! artists. EXPRESS Yourself! Art uses the techniques of Artistic Realization Technologies (A.R.T) to provide a means for Mississippians with the most severe disabilities to feel the power of self expression through art.
Phone: 662-325-1028
Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm, or by appointment
The Charlotte and Richard McNeel Architecture Gallery on the second floor of Giles Hall offers rotating architecture exhibitions of regional and national scope.
Location: 899 Collegeview Street
Top floor of Giles Hall above the Bob and Kathy Luke Library
Hours: Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm
Phone: 662-325-2202
History & Humanities
Located on the fourth floor of Mitchell Memorial Library, the Charles H. Templeton, Sr. Music Museum tells the story of the “business of music” with its collection of musical instruments, recordings and sheet music.
Monday-Friday from 9am - 5pm
Located at the Cullis Wade Depot, this collection of over 400 clocks and watches dates back as far as the early 1700s.
Phone: 662-325-5198
Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm
Showplace for more than 350 antique tools and primitive machines. Forest Products Laboratory.
Phone: 662-325-2116
By Appointment Only or see our virtual collections display.
Located on the third floor of Mitchell Memorial Library, the John Grisham Room displays memorabilia and materials from the writings and achievements of bestselling author, former Mississippi legislator, and MSU alumnus John Grisham.
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm
The MSU Archives is located within the MSU Library Special Collections Division on the third floor of Mitchell Memorial Library. The archives house papers, documents, photographs and artifacts that document the history of Mississippi State University from 1878 to present.
Monday-Friday: 8am - 4:45pm
Mitchell Memorial Library, in addition to rotating exhibits highlighting materials found in Special Collections, contains prominent museums including The Charles H. Templeton Sr. Music Museum; The John Grisham Room, featuring memorabilia from alumnus and best-selling author John Grisham; The Stennis/Montgomery Room, the Special Collections exhibit gallery and the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library.
Phone: 662-325-7679
Located on the third floor of the Mitchell Memorial Library, the Stennis-Montgomery Room houses photographs, correspondence and artifacts that document the lives and careers of Senator John C. Stennis and Congressman G.V. “Sonny” Montgomery, both Mississippi State alums.
Monday-Friday 7:30am - 5pm
The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana represents a lifetime of collecting documents, books, artifacts, ephemera, philately, numismatics, paintings, and statuary related to the life of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War in general.
Monday - Friday 7:30am-5pm
Located on the fourth floor of Mitchell Memorial Library, the Grant Presidential Library houses correspondence, photographs, paintings, engravings, statues and other artifacts relating to the life and Presidency of the 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant.
Monday-Friday 7:30am - 5pm
Natural History
The Department of Geosciences houses a public gallery with exhibits that focus on rocks, minerals, fossils, and other items of geologic interest including an overview of the geologic history of Mississippi and a cast of a real Triceratops skull.
Phone: 662-325-3915
Fall 2026 Semester Hours of Operation:
Mondays 9am-4pm
Tuesdays 11am-4pm
Wednesdays 9am-4pm
Thursdays 9am-12pm and 1pm-4pm
Fridays 9am-1pm
For large group tours contact the Mississippi State University Welcome Center (662) 325-5198 or by emailing Wanda Eck (weck@pres.msstate.edu)
SUMMER Requests:
Note that the Dunn-Seiler Museum does not hold regular hours in the summer months. Please contact us before scheduling a visit. Please contact Dr. Renee Clary (rclary@geosci.msstate.edu).
The Lois Dowdle Cobb Museum of Archaeology
Summer 2026:
There are no walk-in hours, private tours can be arranged during the summer by calling the main office at 662-325-3826. Regular hours of operation will resume during the Fall 2026 semester.
The Lois Dowdle Cobb Museum of Archaeology includes artifacts from the ancient Middle East and the Southeastern United States. Located in the Cobb Archaeology Building.
Phone: 662-325-3826
The Mississippi Entomology Museum boasts the third largest insect collection in the Southeastern United States, with 1 million specimens. It includes the Ross Hutchins and David Young photograph collections with more than 40,000 slides and prints.
Phone: 662-325-2989
Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm
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Beginning at the MSU Visitor Center, the Campus Tree Trail is located in the heart of the Mississippi State University campus in Starkville. The trail exhibits common and not-so-common tree species found throughout the Southeastern United States. The trail is open to the public seven days a week. The trail currently consists of twenty tree species and includes specimens of special interest to Mississippians such as the Moon Sycamore and the Melting Gingkos.
Map of the trail is currently under construction and will be updated as soon as possible.
Phone: 662-325-2949
It is our mission to educate all ages about our ecosystems in Mississippi and how some insects can hurt what we have. Invasive insects, such as the Spotted Lanternfly and Emerald Ash Borer, impact our native ecosystems and cause problems. Check out our Bug Camps!
Guided tours are more interactive and several arthropods can be removed from their habitats and handled. With enough advance notice we can customize tours.
Phone: 662-325-3482