Hurricane Katrina: Mississippi Remembers - Photographs by Melody Golding

A Temporary Exhibit at the Two Mississippi Museums
March 8, 2025 – November 7, 2025

Hurricane Katrina’s 125-mph winds and 30-foot storm surge barreled across the Mississippi Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, leaving a swath of devastation. Vicksburg photographer Melody Golding captured not only the storm’s ravages, but also the resilience of the people forced to rebuild their lives.

On the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Golding’s photographs, along with artifacts from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, tell the story of Mississippians’ determination to rise out of chaos to rebuild, recover and thrive.

Destroyed Bridge
Images of Destruction from Hurricane Katrina

Special Events

Saturday, March 8Exhibit Opens

Thursday, April 3
11 a.m.
Gallery Talk
Reporting Live: A Journalists View on Living and Covering Katrina

Wednesday, May 14
Noon
History Is Lunch:
Lawrence Strout, Pass Christian and the Gazebo Gazette: A Gulft Community's Post-Katrina Triumph

Thursday, June 5
11 a.m.
Gallery Talk

Wednesday, August 27
Noon
History Is Lunch

Thursday, August 28
11 a.m.
Gallery Talk

Thursday, September 25
5 p.m.
History Happy Hour

Thursday, October 16
11 a.m.
Gallery Talk

Hurricane Katrina Gallery Talk

Reporting Live: A Journalist's View on Living and Covering Katrina

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