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Warmest of greetings, everyone, from the University Museum and Faulkner’s Rowan Oak. The entire professional staff and I want to extend our heartfelt best wishes to you and your families for continued safety, health, and well-being in this challenging period. We remain entirely focused on serving the University’s three-part mission of Teaching, Research, and Service, … Read more

  Video 1 — Virtual Gallery Tour Video 2 — Page Painting (Art Project Demo) Video 3 — EXPLODING Art Book (Art Project Demo) Video 4 — Cover to Cover (Art Project Demo) Video 5 — Story Time with Miss Andi

Every Thursday February 4 through April 29, 2021! Cost: FREE Check out our Virtual Open Studio art demo videos inspired by works in our collection. Fun for kids of all ages! Check them out below or on our museum education blog.     SPRING 2021 OPEN STUDIOS: FEBRUARY 4 Friendly Faces FEBRUARY 11 Winter Watercolor … Read more

Hello Dear Readers! My name is Travis Turner, and I am the Exhibitions Preparator at the UM Museum. One of the special parts of my job is making mounts for objects so that they can be displayed in a safe and eye-catching way. From Greek ceramics to folk art canes, objects come in all shapes, … Read more

Warmest of mid-summer greetings from your University Museum, and Faulkner’s Rowan Oak – with hope that this finds all of you safe and healthy in these times of care and concern for our extended stakeholder and Member community. As you will see in content within this Newsletter, the Museum staff remain very busy on many … Read more

Warmest of greetings from your University of Mississippi Museum and our sister property William Faulkner’s Rowan Oak. Museum staff—and staff across the University campus-wide—have come back to on-campus work this first week of July and our team is in the building planning the many logistical steps to accommodate a safe and healthful early Fall re-opening. … Read more

  “The museum we closed will not be the museum we reopen.” Those words are being spoken in nearly every museum across the country as we collectively come to terms with the depth of devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The University of Mississippi Museum and William Faulkner’s historic home Rowan Oak are located in … Read more