crisp museum

The Crisp museum is both a fine art and a history gallery. The gallery contains a large collection of pre-historic Native American artifacts dating from 13,500 to 1400 A D; including ceramic conch shell effigies, whole pottery vessels, figurines, shell necklaces, stone tools, etc. The Crisp Museum is located inside Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus at 518 S. Fountain St. (One University Plaza) by the Mississippi River in downtown Cape Girardeau. Admission is free, donations accepted. There is a 17-minute video in the Crossroads Theatre highlighting southeast Missouri's heritage.