southern tenant farmers museum

Don’t let the understated exterior of this museum fool you. Inside is a modern, well-designed space with a variety of exhibits about the lives of tenant farmers in the Delta and the rise of the farm labor movement. It is a fascinating part of American history and very well told in this small museum.The guide who showed us around the museum was excellent and provided additional insight about the subject from her own family’s experiences. We had only an hour for our visit and wished it had been longer.

This is a remarkable museum in a small town. The history of the union in Tyronza is really important and needs to be known more broadly. The museum staff preserved the old union hall and adapted into an excellent museum. The approach used for interpreting the site works well. The museum gives a relevant and accurate context for farming in the region and then moves into significant aspects of the local history. There are important insights that visitors will gain by looking at ways that challenging elements of history are presented. What works so well is that the narrative line of the exhibit is blended so well with the context for that history. The museum isn't a large one, but it represents the history in the style of a masterly written short story. I'm also impressed with how well the artifacts and photographs are presented.

I was so surprised; they've done a wonderful job with this little chunk of history.Outside looks like a block from some small local town (and was) but inside it flows into one open project. The layout is similar to any decent museum as youwork your way through a maze of culture, history and factual evidence thatfolks LOVE their south!Please consider a stop here.You won't regret it.It's only a few miles from Dyess and Johnny Cash.Then you can go just a few more miles and see The Hampson Museum in Wilson.Then.... check out the Mississippi River view Mark Twain wrote about at Sans Soucci. (sp?) just north of Wilson, heading into Osceola.BTW: Osceola has some kind of museum too on their downtown square.