National Civil Rights Museum
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National Civil Rights Museum is a museum in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 77 m. The nearest named place is Upstander, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 161 miles off.
The story
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, the site of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Two other buildings and their adjacent property, also connected with the King assassination, have been acquired as part of the museum complex. After renovations, the museum reopened in 2014 with an increase in the amount of multimedia and interactive displays, as well as various short films to show highlights. 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. In 2016, the museum was honored by becoming an affiliate museum of the Smithsonian Institution. It is also a contributing property to the South Main Street Historic District of the National Register of Historic Places.
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Dates from 1920.
Wikidata Q845216, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
- 161.0 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- On the Great River Road, National
- 10.4 mi off the Mississippi Delta Great River Road
- 37.5 mi off the Crowley's Ridge Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Beale Street Landing · 1 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Army Park: 0.1 mi
- Navy Park: 0.1 mi
- Vance Park: 0.3 mi
- MLK Reflections Park: 0.3 mi
- Tom Lee Park: 0.3 mi
- Modern Movie Making in Memphis: 0.1 mi
- Site of First Memphis Telephone Historical Marker: 0.2 mi
- Fort Assumption: 0.3 mi
- John James Audubon: 0.3 mi
- Tom Lee Memorial: 0.3 mi
- Gibson Guitar Factory Tour: 0.4 mi
- Eddie Murphy Star Marker: 0.4 mi
- Sidewalk of Stars at the Orpheum: 0.4 mi
- Memphis Riverboats: 0.5 mi
- Mississippi River Model Walk: 0.8 mi
- Blues Hall of Fame: 0.1 mi
- Memphis Rock 'N Soul Museum: 0.4 mi
- Memphis Music Hall of Fame: 0.5 mi
- The Eel on Beale (Withers Museum): 0.5 mi
- Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art: 0.5 mi
- Desoto Woods FootPath: 13.6 mi
- West Junction shore: 17.9 mi
- West Snake Beach: 17.9 mi
- West Potato Beach: 18.1 mi
- West Houston shore beach: 18.2 mi
- Upstander: 0.0 mi
- I Have Been to the Mountaintop: 0.3 mi
- Whirl: 0.3 mi
- Elvis Presley: 1.0 mi
- St. Jude Thaddeus: 1.5 mi
- Ducks Unlimited Park: 3.9 mi
- Audubon Park: 8.4 mi
- Lichterman Nature Center: 11.4 mi
- Ducks Unlimited National Headquarters: 14.1 mi
- Germantown Greenway: 15.7 mi
- Clara Conway Memorial Gardens: 3.6 mi
- Fisher Memorial Garden: 4.0 mi
- Meditation Garden: 6.5 mi
- Emeriti Grove: 6.9 mi
- Dixon Gardens: 8.1 mi
- Chickasaw Bluff Number Four: 0.9 mi
- Chickasaw Bluff Number Three: 12.8 mi
- Hopefield: 1.7 mi
- Tennessee Welcome Center: 7.1 mi
- Memphis Propbuster's Field: 22.4 mi
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:39 | 19:12 |
| June solstice | 05:47 | 19:41 | 20:19 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:25 | 18:59 |
| December solstice | 07:06 | 16:14 | 16:53 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 42 | 46 | 54 | 63 | 72 | 80 | 83 | 82 | 76 | 65 | 53 | 45 |
| Precip in | 4.1 | 4.5 | 5.7 | 5.9 | 5.3 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 3.4 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Memphis Intl AP, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/95132665
Day trips start here
- Memphis · 1 mi
- West Memphis · 7 mi
- Marion · 10 mi
- Bartlett · 11 mi
- Southaven · 12 mi
- Olive Branch · 18 mi
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