The MSU Libraries is a member of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries which showcases museums and galleries in academic institutions. Visit our museums and exhibits during their open hours, or
book a guided tour for yourself or your group.
Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library Museum
The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana Gallery
This Gallery presents one of the country’s largest and most comprehensive private collections of President Abraham Lincoln material. The Gallery was created to exemplify the importance of primary evidence and to provide an answer to why we collect. Visitors will be presented with the depth of the collection through a rotating exhibit of one hundred priceless artifacts found in the collection. Visitors will view the most important pieces that relate to Lincoln’s days as a lawyer and public servant, husband and father, a politician, the 16th President, and then the tragedy of the assassination.
Charles H. Templeton Music Museum
The Museum tells the story of the "business of music" with its collection of musical instruments, recordings, and sheet music. View and listen to early phonographs created by Thomas Edison; gramophones produced by Columbia and Eldridge Johnson; cylinder and disc-type music boxes; organs; organettes of paper roll and cob varieties; and self-playing accordions.
The John Grisham Room
The John Grisham Room displays materials and memorabilia from the writings and achievements of bestselling author, former Mississippi legislator (1983-1990), and MSU alumnus John Grisham. It also serves as a presentation and conference suite for seminars, receptions, lectures, and other functions related to teaching, research, and service.
The Myrna Colley-Lee Exhibit
Selected costumes and notes from costume, art, and set designer Myrna Colley-Lee are on exhibit in the John Grisham Room.
The Stennis-Montgomery Room
The Stennis-Montgomery Room is located on the third floor of the Mitchell Memorial Library. The Stennis-Montgomery Room contains 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. The Stennis-Montgomery Room is open Monday-Friday 7:30-5 and is used as a Library and MSU campus meeting space.
Louis Burns Brock, Jay Brock, and Hank Brock Gallery
Located on the first floor of the Old Main Academic Center, the Gallery showcases materials from the University Libraries and other campus museums. Made possible by a gift from Louis Burns Brock, a 1968 MSU general business administration graduate.
Online Exhibits
Mississippi State University Historical Buildings
The buildings pictured in this photographic essay were constructed during the early years of the University and represent a variety of architectural styles of the last 1800s and early 1900s.
Mississippi State University: The A&M Years
This exhibit is a photographic essay of life from 1880-1932 on the campus of Mississippi State University. The University was founded as Mississippi A&M College in 1878 and campus operations began in 1880. In 1932 the name was changed to Mississippi State College, and in 1958 to Mississippi State University.
Glimpses of the Past: Mississippi State Baseball
The first sports team of any variety formed at Mississippi State University, then Mississippi A&M College, was a baseball team, organized in 1885, five years after the college opened in 1880. The photographs in this exhibit are of MSU baseball teams from the late 1890s through the early 1920s. The young men that played on these teams sometimes had to make do without a coach, yet they persisted, and all together they laid the groundwork for a premier baseball program.
