Museum · Tennessee
Stax Museum
Stax Museum is a museum in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 94 m. River Road Scenic Byway passes 160 miles off.
The story
soul music museum in Tennessee, United States
Dates from 2003-05.
Wikidata Q7604973, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
Coordinates35.11576, -90.03118
- 160.4 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 1.4 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 10.0 mi off the Mississippi Delta Great River Road
- 39.0 mi off the Crowley's Ridge Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Beale Street Landing · 2 mi
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Chandler Park: 0.2 mi
- Jesse Turner Park: 0.7 mi
- South Side Park: 0.8 mi
- Lincoln Park: 1.0 mi
- Brown Park: 1.1 mi
Historic sites
- 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike Monument: 1.8 mi
- Sojourner Truth Memorial Time Capsule: 1.8 mi
- Mary Church Terrell: 1.9 mi
- Phi Beta Sigma Historical Marker: 1.9 mi
- Church Park Historical Marker: 1.9 mi
Attractions
- Gibson Guitar Factory Tour: 2.0 mi
- Eddie Murphy Star Marker: 2.2 mi
- Sidewalk of Stars at the Orpheum: 2.2 mi
- Man & Guitar Statue: 2.3 mi
- Bell: 2.3 mi
Museums: 28
- Stax Museum: 0.0 mi
- Sun Studio: 1.7 mi
- The Eel on Beale (Withers Museum): 1.9 mi
- W. C. Handy Home and Museum: 2.0 mi
- Memphis Rock 'N Soul Museum: 2.0 mi
Beaches: 21
- Desoto Woods FootPath: 12.1 mi
- West Junction shore: 16.3 mi
- West Snake Beach: 16.4 mi
- West Potato Beach: 16.5 mi
- West Houston shore beach: 16.6 mi
Artworks: 13
- Upstander: 2.0 mi
- I Have Been to the Mountaintop: 2.1 mi
- Whirl: 2.3 mi
- Spinners: 2.6 mi
- St. Jude Thaddeus: 2.7 mi
Gardens: 7
- Clara Conway Memorial Gardens: 3.0 mi
- Fisher Memorial Garden: 3.4 mi
- Meditation Garden: 4.9 mi
- Emeriti Grove: 5.3 mi
- Dixon Gardens: 6.4 mi
Nature reserves: 7
- Ducks Unlimited Park: 5.8 mi
- Audubon Park: 6.7 mi
- Lichterman Nature Center: 9.6 mi
- Ducks Unlimited National Headquarters: 12.7 mi
- Germantown Greenway: 14.1 mi
Cliffs: 2
- Chickasaw Bluff Number Four: 2.6 mi
- Chickasaw Bluff Number Three: 14.2 mi
Ghost towns: 1
- Hopefield: 3.7 mi
Rest areas: 1
- Tennessee Welcome Center: 5.4 mi
Picnic sites: 1
- Memphis Propbuster's Field: 21.5 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 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:25 | 18:59 |
| December solstice | 07:05 | 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, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/2929544114
Day trips start here
- Memphis · 3 mi
- West Memphis · 9 mi
- Bartlett · 11 mi
- Marion · 11 mi
- Southaven · 11 mi
- Olive Branch · 16 mi
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