Exhibits
The exhibit “Space: Exploring the Final Frontier in the Archives” featured sixteen cases with items that covered a wide array of topics:
- rare astronomy books from the 18th and 19th centuries
- astronomy at UM
- handwritten accounts of 19th century astronomical observations by UM faculty and students
- music with space themes
- Primitive artist Howard Finster’s space visions
- UFO sightings in Pascagoula in 1973
- science fiction
- U.S. space program
The exhibit opened in January 2020 and remained up through November 2021.
James Ferguson
Colin Maclaurin & George Adams
J.J. Littrow & Denison Olmstead
William Henry Smyth & Thomas Dick
Eyewitness Accounts
Astronomy Classes at the University of Mississippi
Observatories & Equipment at the University of Mississippi
Visions of Space
UFOs in Mississippi!
Astronomical Phenomena in Music
Musical Space Fantasies
Space Travel Literature