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Membership

You are encouraged to join the Friends of the Museum to support the Heritage Museum. Different levels of membership are offered. Membership envelopes are available at the museum, 206 Fellowship Street, or you may download a membership form.

Membership in the Friends of the Oktibbeha County Heritage Museum organization:

  • Helps to preserve the heritage of the community
  • Enhances the museum’s mission of collecting and interpreting local history and culture
  • Offers tax-deductible fiscal benefits

All contributions (membership dues, gifts, and memorials) payable to the Friends of the Oktibbeha County Heritage Museum are tax deductible. The Friends of the Museum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that is annually registered as a charity with the Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office and the IRS.

Levels of Membership (per year):

  • $15 — Student
  • $25 — Senior Citizen / Retiree
  • $30 — Individual
  • $50 — Family
  • $100 — Bronze
  • $250 — Silver
  • $500 — Gold
  • $1000 — Heritage

Membership envelopes are available at the museum, 206 Fellowship Street, or you may download a membership form.

Please contact the museum at 662.323.0211 if you are interested in becoming a museum volunteer.

MUSEUM HOURS:

Tours are encouraged and available by special arrangement.

Volunteers are present whenever the museum is open.

1:00 – 4:00pm
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays

By appointment
662.323.0211

Special events on selected Saturdays

Admission to the museum is free, but donations are appreciated.

Our Community Series programs on selected days

LOCATION:

VIEW LARGER MAP HERE

EVENTS:

May
The museum’s Home Center is showcasing “Fantasy Fascinators,” a display of hats of the type popularized by Kate Middleton. The contestants were students enrolled in the Fall 2013 Visual Design & Dress Courses (HS1523). Dr. Phyllis Bell Miller, professor in the Apparel, Textiles & Merchandising Program in the School of Human Sciences, facilitated the temporary display.

 


OPPORTUNITIES:

The Friends of the Museum (FOM) membership drive is in process. If you would like to join the Friends but didn’t get an information packet in the mail, you can obtain a membership envelope at the museum or you can download a form from the FOM page at this website.

The 2013 fund-raiser Denim & Diamonds will be held Friday, August 9, 6 p.m. Please mark your calendars.

RESOURCES:

A $10 DVD of the Feb. 22, 2012 Needmore Community program is for sale at the museum.

Ruth Morgan’s “From Days Past” articles and photos, which appeared weekly in the Starkville Daily News, can be accessed at library.msstate.edu/localhistory.

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