The Cotton Museum at the Memphis Cotton Exchange
The Cotton Museum at the Memphis Cotton Exchange is a museum in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 83 m. The nearest named place is Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art, a museum 0.1 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 162 miles off.
The story
The Cotton Museum, located in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S., is an historical and cultural museum that opened in March 2006 on the former trading floor of the Memphis Cotton Exchange at 65 Union Avenue in downtown Memphis. The mission of the Cotton Museum is to share the story of the cotton industry and its many influences on the daily life, arts, and the development of the mid-South region. The museum highlights artifacts through interpretive exhibits, educational programs, and research archives that help tell the story of cotton and cotton trading, from crop to becoming fabric. The Cotton Museum preserves the history of the cotton business and its impact on economics, history, society and culture, and science and technology. The museum's exhibits are appropriate for field trips for middle schoolers and older, and provide visitors context for other attractions in the city.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 2006-03.
Wikidata Q7727733, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 161.6 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 0.7 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 11.0 mi off the Mississippi Delta Great River Road
- 37.7 mi off the Crowley's Ridge Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Beale Street Landing · 1 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Memphis Queen II Historical Marker: 0.1 mi
- Memphis Suffrage Monument: 0.2 mi
- Schools For Freedmen Historical Marker: 0.2 mi
- Elvis Presley Memorial: 0.2 mi
- Lansky Brothers Clothier to the King Historical Marker: 0.2 mi
- Cobblestone Landing: 0.1 mi
- Elvis Presley Plaza: 0.2 mi
- Fourth Bluff Park: 0.2 mi
- Court Square: 0.3 mi
- Handy Park: 0.3 mi
- Sidewalk of Stars at the Orpheum: 0.2 mi
- Eddie Murphy Star Marker: 0.2 mi
- Memphis Riverboats: 0.3 mi
- Mississippi River Model Walk: 0.3 mi
- Mississippi River Model Walk: 0.3 mi
- Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art: 0.1 mi
- Memphis Music Hall of Fame: 0.2 mi
- Memphis Rock 'N Soul Museum: 0.4 mi
- The Eel on Beale (Withers Museum): 0.4 mi
- W. C. Handy Home and Museum: 0.4 mi
- Desoto Woods FootPath: 14.2 mi
- West Junction shore: 17.8 mi
- West Snake Beach: 17.8 mi
- West Potato Beach: 18.0 mi
- West Houston shore beach: 18.1 mi
- I Have Been to the Mountaintop: 0.3 mi
- Elvis Presley: 0.4 mi
- Whirl: 0.4 mi
- Upstander: 0.6 mi
- St. Jude Thaddeus: 0.9 mi
- Clara Conway Memorial Gardens: 3.4 mi
- Fisher Memorial Garden: 3.7 mi
- Emeriti Grove: 6.8 mi
- Meditation Garden: 7.0 mi
- Dixon Gardens: 8.1 mi
- Ducks Unlimited Park: 3.5 mi
- Audubon Park: 8.3 mi
- Lichterman Nature Center: 11.4 mi
- Ducks Unlimited National Headquarters: 14.0 mi
- Germantown Greenway: 15.7 mi
- Chickasaw Bluff Number Four: 0.3 mi
- Chickasaw Bluff Number Three: 12.2 mi
- Hopefield: 1.4 mi
- Tennessee Welcome Center: 7.6 mi
- Memphis Propbuster's Field: 22.1 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/1433956427
Day trips start here
- Memphis · 1 mi
- West Memphis · 7 mi
- Marion · 9 mi
- Bartlett · 11 mi
- Southaven · 13 mi
- Olive Branch · 18 mi
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