City tours allow Showcase delegates to experience some of the most popular tourist venues in the Gulf Coast. Delegates have multiple tour options including afternoon tours on both Saturday and Sunday.
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Do you know how important the shrimping industry has been to our area? Let the crew of the Sailfish take you on the Biloxi Shrimping Trip. In just over an hour, learn everything you ever wanted to know about the life and times of being a shrimp, the operations of an actual shrimp net, and discover the vast variety of local sea life in the Mississippi Sound. Continue your day on the Biloxi Tour Train that has treated thousands of visitors for over forty years to a historical journey through one of the oldest towns in America. Begin the 90 minute narrated tour through Biloxi’s Historical District at the Biloxi Lighthouse and travel the neighborhood streets lined with 18th and 19th century architecture. Yes, “Katrina” did destroy many historical points of interest, but not all is lost! You can still experience the people, places and sites that make up the rich cultural heritage that is unique to Biloxi. We will then excite your imagination with the unique works of George Ohr, the “Mad Potter of Biloxi” at the Ohr O’Keefe Museum of Art. Ohr’s pottery has been labeled shocking, contradictory, and ahead of its time—its forms, colors predate the movements that would rattle the 20th century art world. Learn about the life and times of this eccentric potter and make a personal work of art to take home as a souvenir!
Museum of Art in the quaint town of Ocean Springs, just minutes east of Biloxi. A visit to the Walter Anderson Museum of Art is an enchanting and memorial experience. Anderson’s watercolors, drawings, oils, block prints, ceramics and carvings of the plants, animals and people of the Gulf Coast have placed him at the forefront of 20th century American artists. Enjoy the “Little Room” a portion of Anderson’s cottage. The ceiling- to- floor murals chronicle the transition from night to day and synthesize Anderson’s life and art. The museum also features changing exhibits of other significant artists throughout the year. View the video, “The Islander” to look at the private life of Walter Anderson and find a piece of art of your own at the Museum Gift shop. While in this artisan town, spend time strolling through the many boutiques and galleries to really enjoy the talents and charm of our many southern artists. From the Depot beyond, every door holds some small treasure to behold.
Tour John C. Stennis Space Center – Stennisphere -America’s largest rocket testing complex! Since 1966 this space center has test-fired rocket engines – from those that carried Americans to the Moon, to today’s Space Shuttle Main Engines, to tomorrow’s spacecraft. While visiting Stennisphere you can experience first-hand; a real Space Shuttle Main Engine, a walk-through of the International Space Station, Rocket Test Control Center, a Space Shuttle cockpit, a moon rock and so much more! Next on the tour is an opportunity to visit Mississippi’s first Brewery offering locally brewed beer to locals as well as visitors at many of their favorite restaurants. The Lazy Magnolia Brewing Company won a Bronze Medal in the 2006 World Beer Cup in its category. This tour begins with a first hand look at milling and mashing-in and goes into a boiling process, then onto the process of fermentation, cooling and filtering and finally to their own unique packaging. The packaging area is where the visitor can see the Party Pig Maternity Ward where the pigs are born before going off to the cold room to await pickup! Lunch for this tour day will be held at the Country Club located at the beautiful resort community of Diamondhead.
Board the Ship Island Ferry and relax on the cruise to Ship Island. Along your way, enjoy sightings of dolphins and a beautiful view of our coastal barrier islands. After you land, stroll along the beaches and explore Civil War history at Fort Massachusetts or just soak up the sun at the waters edge of this pristine island.
Do you know how important the shrimping industry has been to our area? Let the crew of the Sailfish take you on the Biloxi Shrimping Trip. In just over an hour, learn everything you ever wanted to know about the life and times of being a shrimp, the operations of an actual shrimp net, and discover the vast variety of local sea life in the Mississippi Sound. Continue your day on the Biloxi Tour Train that has treated thousands of visitors for over forty years to a historical journey through one of the oldest towns in America. Begin the 90 minute narrated tour through Biloxi’s Historical District at the Biloxi Lighthouse and travel the neighborhood streets lined with 18th and 19th century architecture. Yes, “Katrina” did destroy many historical points of interest, but not all is lost! You can still experience the people, places and sites that make up the rich cultural heritage that is unique to Biloxi. We will then excite your imagination with the unique works of George Ohr, the “Mad Potter of Biloxi” at the Ohr O’Keefe Museum of Art. Ohr’s pottery has been labeled shocking, contradictory, and ahead of its time—its forms, colors predate the movements that would rattle the 20th century art world. Learn about the life and times of this eccentric potter and make a personal work of art to take home as a souvenir!
Step back into the past, onboard one of the authentic replicas of the Biloxi Schooners. Our “White Winged Queens” once sailed the Coast from the late 1800s into the early 1900s. History is recaptured on the two 68 ft., two-masted oyster schooners, the Glenn L. Swetman and the Mike Sekul. Your cruise along the coastline will conjure up visions of times gone by while you relax in the gentle breezes off the Mississippi Sound. Join our professional captain and crew casting off from the new Schooner Pier Complex. Sail along the Biloxi beachfront and see our coastline and Barrier Islands as you have never seen them before! Afterwards, you will enjoy some “lagniappe” at the Pier Complex with a Crawfish Boil to sample this local delicacy. Learn to suck the heads and pinch the tails like a true south Mississippian. 
Tour a Historic African American Catholic church and marvel at the breathtaking mural on the church alter. St. Rose de Lima Catholic Church is home to an award winning Gospel Choir, who has performed time and time again at the Jazz Fest in New Orleans and at the wedding of Cooper Manning, brother of Peyton and Eli Manning, 2007 and 2008 Super Bowl MVP's. Next tour the Moseley Folk Art & Antique Museum where you can meet first-hand the curator and son of the nationally acclaimed folk artist Alice Moseley. In this quaint Creole Cottage Museum you can see many of her original works of art as well as prints to purchase, while listening to “Miss Alice” on video telling the stories that has made many a visitor fall in love with her time and time again. Finish the day in Bay St Louis with shopping and dining in historic Old Town riddled with quaintness at every corner. 
Let Captain Lynn McCoy with McCoy’s River & Marsh Tours take you on the Pascagoula River, one of the most pristine river swamps in America. Recently this river has been recognized as the last waterway of its size in the United States unimpeded by any artificial structure. Over 74,000 acres of the river area is a permanently protected wildlife preserve! McCoy’s River boat is a 24-foot custom built pontoon boat, which holds up to 24 passengers and offers small nature tours of this unique river and marsh system. You will be able to experience hard-to-reach small bayous and sloughs of the swamp and marsh. This natural treasure, with its moss-draped trees, and abundant wildlife will be an unforgettable part of your trip to the beautiful Mississippi Gulf Coast!