The LeFleur Museum District

Today, on that same bluff, the exchange of culture and ideas and that same spirit of exploration and adventure make up the LeFleur Museum District.The LMD is a consortium, each member playing different roles, each serving as what Susan Garrard, Mississippi Children’s Museum President, and CEO, calls “a community center.”

On a bluff high above the Pearl River in the city that a few decades later would be named Jackson, LeFleur set up an outpost, trading goods and services.This nearly 500-acre campus includes the Mississippi Natural Science Museum, the Mississippi Children’s Museum, the Mississippi Agriculture, and Forestry Museum and the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame, bordering LeFleur’s Bluff State Park.