![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20240521_walteranderson_002.jpg\" "\\"The")
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The Walter Anderson Museum in Ocean Springs on Tuesday, May 21, 2024.<\/p>\n
Hannah Ruhoff<\/p>\n
Sun Herald<\/p>\n
A Mississippi Coast museum is one of two art museums in the state named among the best in the South<\/a> in a recent list by Southern Living.<\/p>\n The list includes 17 art museums in the South \u2014 from world-famous museums to smaller spaces \u2014 that are \u201cworth planning a trip around.\u201d<\/p>\n Here\u2019s where you should go to view great art in Mississippi.<\/p>\n Which MS Coast art museum made the list?<\/p>\n The Walter Anderson Museum<\/a>, located in Ocean Springs, is one of the best museums to view art in the South, according to Southern Living.<\/p>\n The nationally accredited art museum features drawings, paintings, murals, sculptures and more of Walter Anderson, a Louisiana-born artist who lived most of his life in Ocean Springs.<\/p>\n Along with a collection of more than 1,000 objects, the museum displays special exhibitions by visiting artists, according to the museum\u2019s website.<\/p>\n Southern Living recommends beginning your museum visit in The Little Room where \u201cfloor-to-ceiling renderings reveal [Anderson\u2019s] vision of a perfect day from dawn to night.\u201d<\/p>\n Which other MS art museum made the list?<\/p>\n The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art<\/a>, located in Laurel, also made Southern Living\u2019s list.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Lauren Rogers Museum of Art is an intimate space where small works feel at home and where an array of American and European pieces is approachable,\u201d according to the magazine.<\/p>\n Which art museums are the best in the South?<\/p>\n These 17 spaces made Southern Living\u2019s list for the best art museums in the South:<\/p>\n\n
![\"Profile](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DemareeNatalie_Headshot.jpg\")