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National Civil Rights Museum - Lorraine Motel vs Stax Museum of American Soul Music
Stax Museum of American Soul Music and National Civil Rights Museum - Lorraine Motel are both highly recommended by writers. Overall, National Civil Rights Museum - Lorraine Motel scores significantly better than Stax Museum of American Soul Music. National Civil Rights Museum - Lorraine Motel has a TripExpert Score of 95 with recommendations from 6 sources like Michelin Guide, Lonely Planet and concierge.com.
National Civil Rights Museum - Lorraine Motel
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450 Mulberry St., Memphis, TN 38103
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"The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination... the first museum to trace America's civil rights movement opened its doors at the tragically historic site."
Fodor's
"An outstanding facility that documents the civil rights movement through exhibits and clever audiovisual displays."
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Lonely Planet
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"Housed in the Lorraine Motel, where the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr was fatally shot on April 4, 1968, is the gut-wrenching National Civil Rights Museum."
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Michelin Guide
2 Stars
"Today the former hotel is a 10,000sq ft memorial depicting key events of the US civil rights movement in the 1950s and 60s."
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Afar Magazine
"The National Civil Rights Museum symbolizes one of the darkest moments in the history of Memphis while serving as one of its great tourism points of pride."
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Stax Museum of American Soul Music
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926 E. McLemore Ave, Memphis, TN 38106
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Concierge
"The STAX Museum strives to explicate, to illuminate, and to elucidate the sound this recording studio originated—"sweet soul music."
Fodor's
"It's wall-to-wall music—along with a history of Stax, from its beginnings as a home base for local musicians to an international sensation."
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Lonely Planet
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"Wanna get funky? Head directly to Soulsville USA, where this 17,000-sq-ft museum sits on the site of the old Stax recording studio."
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Afar Magazine
"In a relatively small space, the museum gives visitors a soul music primer before letting them stroll through countless 45s, photographs, outlandish clothes, original recording equipment."
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"The 17,000-sq. ft. museum, which opened in 2002 on the four-acre site of the defunct label, houses more than 2,000 items."
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