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Established | 1923 |
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Location | 565 N. Fifth Avenue Laurel, Mississippi, United States |
Coordinates | 31°41′47″N 89°07′51″W / 31.696348°N 89.130763°W |
Type | Art museum |
Website | lrma |
Mississippi's first art museum, the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art is located in Laurel, Mississippi, United States. It was founded in 1923 in memory of Lauren Eastman Rogers.
The museum has an extensive collection of Native American baskets. It also has a selection of American art by Winslow Homer, Albert Bierstadt, and John Singer Sargent. It receives 32,000 visitors a year.[1] Its building's architect was Rathbone DeBuys of New Orleans, Louisiana.