A great history museum for Selma and the surrounding Dallas County. A great many interesting…read moreartifacts with much provided information. I can honestly say that we were blessed by our visit. Low cost admission. The museum's curator is an extremely knowledgeable and very entertaining woman! Highly recommended.

With 14' ceilings it's and amazing architectural survivor. Period furniture and rugs. Gas light…read morechandeliers converted to electric. Heart of pine wood floors. It's a beautiful place.

Absolutely impressed with this museum. I can not believe how much fun we had at this place!…read more My teenager absolutely loved it! The Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Experience (The MAX) is a museum that opened April 28, 2018 in Meridian, MS. The 50 million dollar museum highlights Mississippi artists and entertainers in every artistic discipline. From Elvis Presley's Tupelo, to B.B. King's Indianola, to Jimmy Buffet's Pascagoula, to Eudora Welty's Jackson, to Walter Anderson's Ocean Springs, it shines the spotlight on Mississippi's many contributions to the entertainment industry. The exhibits are organized around 6 themes: Land, Community, Home, Church, People + Places, and Global Community. There are 15 total permanent galleries of exhibits and 2 spaces for changing exhibits.

Guided tours, fantastic visiting exhibits, classes, classroom activities, etc. are outstanding…read more You won't find another experience like this one.

During our visit to see the Edmond Pettus Bridge we stopped by this museum. It was a small…read morecollection but still worth experiencing. It's not an elaborate museum but growing. The woman who worked there actually walked along side us describing the displays. It was hot inside so bring water and a hand fan. My favorite was the KKK exhibit.

It was closed when I stopped by today, looked to be permanent. Also, the phone is disconnected…read more Not sure when this might have happened.

We we touring Selma on a Saturday morning and after walking the Pettus Bridge, we looked over at…read morethe museum and saw that they were open. It is located at the bottom of the bridge. Normally, it is only opened by reservation. Luckily for us, some group had it reserved for that morning and the museum historian, Sam Walker, graciously let us piggy back on the group. Mr. Walker was amazing and showed a lot pride in the museum. He was very friendly and helpful and pointed out a few key highlights of the museum to us before we really got into it. The museum has a decent sized parking lot and a small gift shop that was not open while I was there. The museum is a lot larger than it looks. It just kept going and going. It provides not only a background on voting rights history, it has a display of photos from Bloody Sunday, a President Obama Gallery, a jail cell exhibit, a church exhibit, a lot of information about the Foot Soldiers, a Ku Klux Klan display, White only and Black drinking fountains, early Black elected officials, MLK and Ghandi comparison, and bogus voting test. Mr Walker came out from the front desk and told us the story of the Bloody Sunday pictures on the wall. They were never seen before then and were donated by a police photographer after he heard of the opening of the museum. The photographer was living in Montgomery at the time and hooked them up with who to request the pictures from. He then showed us a photo and pointed out the window and told us that certain picture occurred outside of the window "right there". That is when it dawned on me that the horrible events of that fateful day occurred right out front of the museum. Outside you will find a bus, which I think they use to help people register and vote. There are also some nice murals on garage doors out there that I really liked and tie into the city, and voting rights. This museum does not have the huge funding that others get. They still do a wonderful job presenting the information. The museum is well organized and has lots of displays and artifacts. It took me about 45 minutes to go through the museum. I know it is difficult to get into the museum. I have been to Selma a few times and was unable to make it happen prior to this trip. And I just lucked out on this go around. It is however, worth the effort and I highly recommend checking this museum out.

Very disappointed with attempt to visit museum on a Thursday. Website clearly states that the…read moremuseum should've been open from 10-4, but we arrived to find a sign taped to the door saying "Sorry the Museum will open by appointments only until further notice." Since we were only passing through Selma for the day, trying to make an appointment at THAT point was pointless; not sure why the info on the website wasn't updated so that we could've planned appropriately.

Im visiting here from Florida and was looking up places to take my toddler I found this spot. When…read moreYou Walk in they greet you immediately. The lady that took care of us was very nice and sweet. She took her time out to explain the different levels. My daughter is under three so she went to the basement level where they have entertainment for kids under the age of three. She definitely had a ball. I will be bringing her back here whenever I'm in town. The entry price was fair. Also, the establishment was clean.

We did a Lolli, mommy, AJ day here and it was fun for all 3 of us! We spent hours exploring and…read moreplaying. It has a great location and you are free to leave (and eat, drink, rest) and return that same day. If you are close to this place and have littles, I would definitely recommend.

This was a perfect spot to visit in Laurel to escape the heat and afternoon rain. I love to visit…read moretowns art museums to help get a better feel for the history of the area. There was street parking available next to the museum. The landscape was beautiful out front and well manicured. The staff in the building were lovely. We were greeted and provided maps. We received a good explanation of how to navigate the museum. We were here for about an hour. We wandered around taking in the beauty of the many different exhibits. I specifically liked the exhibit that showed an art piece and the artist interpretation of that in their own way.

Beautiful fine arts museum located in the heart of Laurel's downtown. A must visit if you are in…read morethe area for a while and appreciate fine arts.

Museum is small but so is the ticket price. Large skeleton was cool and the replicas of the field…read morecamp and dinosaurs skull was cool. Nice break from the road for an hour.

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There's little we can add to Michelle D's review other than to agree heartily with it and strongly…read morerecommend seeing this museum and supporting its mission. We stopped here yesterday afternoon on our drive from Mobile to Athens and were delighted to visit Harper Lee and Truman Capote's home town. The exhibits at the museum are tastefully done, but the real show stopper is the recently renovated courtroom that the movie carefully replicated. We bought a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird from the gift store as a memento. We also stopped by Mel's Drive In, which is where Lee's home used to be and where there is a plaque by the old brick fence of Capote's demolished house. It was actually kind of a sad sight. Another point of interest is that you see a ton of cotton fields on your drive into town. They're strangely lovely to look at, but a poignant reminder of the racial history of the area which Lee captured so well in her magnum opus.

My Aunt and I took a day trip to Monroeville to visit Nell Harper Lee and Truman Capote's childhood…read morehometown. We stopped for a visit to The Old Courthouse Museum. This building is well preserved and full of wonderful exhibits. Exhibits on Ms Lee and Mr Capote's lives in Monroeville, exhibits on how the town responded to it's taste of famous visitors before and after the film was made. The courthouse was the model for the Hollywood set during the Courthouse scene in To Kill a Mockingbird. The real court room is staged like the film and they have performances during the summer months in tribute. There is a wonderful gift shop that has put great thought into the gifts and products that they sell. This building is lovingly maintained and the folks running the museum take great pride in their space. My Aunt and I had gotten there towards the end of the day but we did not feel pressured to leave. In fact, we had a great conversation with a man who works there about Mr Capote. He turned out to be a relative of Mr Capote. There are other locations that are under the Monroe County Heritage Museum but the only other location we saw was the Capote Marker/Faulk Fence on South Alabama Avenue by Mel's Diner. Again, a space that is attended too with great care. As a literature nut, this was a great day trip from Pensacola. Worth every moment.