Admission free but donations appreciated. Burns-Belfry is located an easy walk from the Square at 710 Jackson Ave., across the street from the Lafayette County jail. For further information call 662/281-9963 during museum hours.
We welcome special visits by groups most days of the week with advance notice. To schedule your school, church, club, reunion, or other groups, call Jim Pryor at 662/801-4087. Please schedule as far out as possible since we rely on volunteers to host groups. At least 48 hours in advance is required.
read Current NewsThe Burns-Belfry interpretive exhibit aims to preserve African American history and thereby create opportunities for education, engagement, and dialogue in service of the overall Burns-Belfry mission of building community in Oxford-Lafayette County, Mississippi.
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45 students from the University of Wisconsin visit the Burns-Belfry Museum on Wednesday, January 11, 2017.
To see more images of the reunion visit, see the Gallery.
The Historic Maps Project involves the digitization, rectification and digital display of historic maps using online software. The maps date from 1835 to present day and are fully interactive.
Oxford’s first Fringe Festival brought percussionist Ricky Burkhead to the Burns-Belfry Museum on Friday afternoon, August 1, 2014.
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