Lower MS River Museum
| Experience: | Museums / Civic |
| Location: | Vicksburg, MS |
Funded by the US Army Corps of Engineers, the museum includes a reception area, temporary and permanent exhibition halls, theater, classroom/activity room, office and work room. The museum of the facility is to educate the public about the Lower Mississippi River and its tributaries, from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico. It will provide an understanding of the third largest river in the world and its role as a thoroughfare for waterborne commerce, a complex environmental system and a valuable resource for economic development. The Museum and interpretive site will also review the river valley’s cultural and natural history. The site will feature the Motor Vessel Mississippi, a retired Corps of Engineers working towboat, and the Fairground Street Bridge, which will be relocated from its present site about a mile south of the proposed Museum. The bridge is an historic cast and wrought iron Pratt truss bridge that was originally constructed about 1870.