Museums
History BuffB.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center
Under $25Follow B.B. King's life from Delta sharecropper to blues icon in a museum built around the brick cotton gin where he once worked.
Photo: Tom Beck, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.
SightseeingHistory Buff
Winterville Mounds
Walk the grounds of a Native American mound center north of Greenville, where the 55-foot Temple Mound rises over two old plazas.
2415 Highway 1 North, Greenville, MS 38703 · Greenville, MS
About Winterville Mounds
Winterville Mounds is a 42-acre site north of Greenville where Native Americans built earthen mounds and plazas from about AD 1000 to 1450. Twelve of the original 23 mounds and two large plazas survive. Mound A, the 55-foot Temple Mound, is among the ten tallest earthen structures in the United States, and its ramp was rebuilt in a restoration finished in October 2024. The site is a National Historic Landmark run by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. The grounds are free and open daily from dawn to dusk. Visitors are asked not to walk on the mounds.
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GRAMMY Museum Mississippi
Under $25Explore interactive exhibits on GRAMMY history, recording technology and Mississippi's musicians in the heart of the Delta.
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Delta Blues Museum
Under $25Explore blues history in a former Clarksdale train depot, including the cabin where Muddy Waters lived in his youth.
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