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Museums and History in Biloxi
Six museums, an 1848 lighthouse in the middle of a highway, and one site whose interpretation is contested. What each one is, and which to give your afternoon to.
10 min read
Adeline Boudreaux
Culture & History Editor
Beat: Things to Do, Museums & History, Best Time to Visit
Adeline writes the history pages, which on this coast means handling hard subjects carefully: the gaming industry that remade the city after 1990, the storm that took its waterfront in 2005, the Vietnamese-American fleet that rebuilt the seafood trade, and sites like Beauvoir whose interpretation is contested. She reports what is there and what is claimed, and does not tidy the record.
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Guides by Adeline Boudreaux
Reported guides to Biloxi, each with its own publication and last-updated date.
Guide
FeaturedBiloxi After Katrina: What Happened and What You Are Looking At
Almost everything a visitor sees on the Biloxi waterfront is younger than 2006. This is why, told with the dates, the numbers and the things that were not rebuilt.
9 min read
Guide
The Biloxi Casinos, Explained
Eight casino resorts sit inside the city limits because of two changes in Mississippi law, thirty-five years apart. What that means for a visitor who may not gamble at all.
8 min read
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News under Adeline Boudreaux's byline
Shorter, dated pieces about what is changing in Biloxi.
How this was written. News published under Adeline Boudreaux's byline was drafted by machine from primary sources — operator notices, government and municipal releases, published schedules — and every factual claim in it was matched to one of those sources before it published. A Biloxi Guide editor can change or pull any of it. Our editorial standards.
Festival
The Coast's Biggest Arts Festival Shuts an Entire Downtown
Published 2026 dates are 7 and 8 November. The largest arts festival on the Mississippi coast closes the streets of Ocean Springs for a weekend.
November 7 – November 8
Event
FeaturedWhat Happens Here on 29 August, and How to Be a Guest for It
Commemorations on the anniversary are for residents rather than for visitors. Knowing that is most of what a guest needs to know.
August 29
Festival
Carnival Here Is Older Than You Think, and the Date Moves Every Year
Biloxi paraded for the first time on 3 March 1908 behind a queen titled Ixolib, which is the city's name backwards. The season still moves with Easter.