In the cramped backroom of a theater, Vicki Taylor glues together tiny figurines that peer over electrical boxes, canoe down drainage pipes and hide in nooks and crannies waiting to be found by someone curious enough to get on their hands and knees to search.
Taylor and her husband, Rick, opened the Hattiesburg Pocket Museum — also known as “Mississippi’s Tiniest Museum” — in 2020, hoping to bring joy and traffic to the city’s downtown during the COVID-19 shutdown. The surreal scenes she creates have helped transform a gray, smelly alley into a major community hub and tourist destination.
