National Civil Rights Museum - Memphis, Tenessee, USA.
N 35° 08.083 W 090° 03.465
15S E 768084 N 3891946
National Civil Rights Museum is a complex of multi media halls, exhibits, and historic buildings. Including the Lorraine Hotel, room 306 balcony where Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on 4th April 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Waymark Code: WMY7MW
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 05/06/2018
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National Civil Rights Museum - Wow, this is how all museums should do it. A one of a kind museum, as far as I know the only Civil Rights museum in the World.
This is a must visit museum if you are in Memphis, it gives you a crash course in the history of Civil Rights.
"The National Civil Rights Museum is a complex of museums and historic buildings in Memphis, Tennessee; its exhibits trace the history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the 17th century to the present.
The museum is built around the former Lorraine Motel, where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
Two other buildings and their adjacent property, also connected with the King assassination, have been acquired as part of the museum complex.
The museum reopened in 2014 after renovations that increased the number of multi-media and interactive exhibits, including numerous short movies to enhance features. The museum is owned and operated by the Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation, based in Memphis. The Lorraine Motel is owned by the Tennessee State Museum and leased long term to the Foundation to operate as part of the museum complex.
On October 21, 2016, the museum was honored by becoming a Smithsonian Affiliate museum."
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The Associated Press review said, "The powerful, visceral exhibits set the tone for an evocative, newly immersive museum experience that chronicles the history of the civil rights struggle in America." King scholar Clayborne Carson of Stanford University said that the museum's renovations present "the best and most recent scholarship on civil rights available today."