The University of Mississippi Museum is a small but unusually rich university museum on the eastern edge of the campus — a five-minute walk from Rowan Oak through Bailey's Woods. The collections cover classical antiquities, American folk art, Southern decorative arts, and a respectable holding of 19th- and 20th-century American paintings.
The strongest single section is the Theora Hamblett Gallery, devoted to the self-taught Oxford painter whose dreamlike memory paintings of north Mississippi rural life were collected and championed by Faulkner and others in the mid-century. The Millington-Barnard Collection of 19th-century scientific instruments is one of the best of its kind in the country. Admission is free; closed on Mondays.