Attic Gallery

A 19th-century building on Washington Street has held the same purpose since 1971—the Attic Gallery is Mississippi's oldest continuously operating art gallery. Vicksburg surrendered in July 1863, a turning point in the Civil War, and spent the decades that followed learning what it meant to survive the river and what came after the war. More than a century later, someone decided the city needed a place for the work being made now, not just monuments to what happened then. The gallery represents Southern and regional artists working in painting, sculpture, pottery, and mixed media. It's housed in a structure that dates to the 1800s, part of the downtown gallery district along Washington Street. Open Monday through Saturday, free to browse. What's on the walls changes, but the commitment—showing work made here, by people from here—has held for more than fifty years.