Experts' Choice Award The Cotton Museum at the Memphis Cotton Exchange
What the experts agree on
This intense museum traces cotton's 150-year grip on Memphis history, from trading floor glory to slavery's dark legacy, housed in a meticulously restored 1939 Cotton Exchange building that evokes the city's boom-era grandeur.
Fodor's "Relive the days of "King Cotton" in the architectural splendor of the city's cotton trading floor, re-created as it appeared in 1939, when Memphis did a booming business in cotton." Full review
Where "The cotton economy completely defined 150 years of Memphis’ history." Full review
Frommer's "Taking visitors through the evolution of the cotton trader as well as its deep ties to slavery, this intense museum is inside the 1939 Memphis Cotton Exchange" Full review
