Step Inside: Mississippi’s Tiniest Museum Turns Alley Into Surrealist Wonderland

What started as a tiny window display in an alley behind Hattiesburg's Saenger Theater has grown into a major draw for locals and tourists. Vicki Taylor and her husband, Rick, opened the Hattiesburg Pocket Museum, also known as “Mississippi’s Tiniest Museum,” in 2020 during the COVID-19 shutdown. They hoped it would bring joy and traffic to downtown Hattiesburg. In the backroom of the theater, Taylor builds miniature scenes with figurines that peer over electrical boxes, canoe down drainage pipes and…