This museum is worth a visit if you have time. It is the state's largest and oldest museum of fine and decorative arts, with paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings and photographs from antiquity to the present.
Admission is free on Wednesdays.
The Pink Palace is on the National Register of Historic Places and was to be the home of Piggly Wiggly food store founder Clarence Saunders. After Saunders was forced into bankruptcy, the pink Georgia marble mansion became property of the city and is now home to a very large museum, the Sharpe Planetarium and the Union Planters IMAX Theater, which currently is showing Everest through Oct. 1. The most economical way to go is to get a combination ticket for the IMAX and Museum. Hours Memorial Day through Labor Day are 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Winter closing times are one hour earlier each day except Sunday.