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Memphis Rock N Soul Museum, Memphis TN
Located at 191 Beale, on the corner of legendary Highway 61 at the FedExForum sports and entertainment complex, the Memphis Rock N’ Roll Museum offers a comprehensive Memphis music experience from the rural field hollers and sharecroppers of the 1930s, through the explosion of Sun, Stax and Hi Records and Memphis’ musical heyday in the 70s, to its global musical influence. This is the place is where future rock and soul luminaries like Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, B.B. King, Otis Redding, Jerry Lee Lewis, Isaac Hayes and The Memphis Horns began a musical revolution that changed the cultural complexion of the world forever.
The museum’s digital audio tour guide is packed with over 300 minutes of information, including over 100 songs, and takes visitors through seven galleries featuring 3 audio visual programs, more than 30 instruments, 40 costumes and other musical treasures.
Originally devised by the National Museum of American History in 1996 as a traveling exhibit about American music to commemorate the Smithsonian Institute’s 150th anniversary, the Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum was adopted by a group of Memphians when the traveling exhibit’s funding did not come through. These visionaries raised the necessary dollars to complete the research, acquire pertinent objects and artifacts, and construct the museum. In 2004, the Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum opened in the FedExForum, a Memphis entertainment and sports venue. Since then, the museum has welcomed more than 500,000 visitors from all over the world.
Memphis Rock N Soul Musuem
Address: 191 Beale Street, Memphis, TN 38103 USA
Phone: 901/205-2533
Web Site: http://www.memphisrocknsoul.org
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