If
you are looking for history and museums you have certainly
found it. Memphis offers museums for art, history, technology
and music. The landmarks and architecture is famous and
interesting for the whole family. There is American
history right down the street from where you are staying while
you're in Memphis.. We have highlighted some information
below to help you plan a educational excursion in Memphis.
Museums
Art
Museum of the University of Memphis -
An
educational, research, and community service component of the
College and supports the cultural, service, research, and
teaching missions of the College, the College's academic
departments, and the University.
Brooks
Museum of Art -
The oldest and largest fine arts
museum in the state of Tennessee, housing one of the most
outstanding collections of fine art dating from antiquity to the
present.
Children’s
Museum of Memphis -
The Children's Museum of
Memphis encourages the curiosity and imagination of children and
their families through interactive exhibitions, programs and
resources that help demystify the arts, science, humanities and
technology.
Chucalissa
Archaeological Museum -
A reconstructed 15th
century Native American village located on an actual
archaeological site, now known as Chucalissa.
Fire
Museum Network -
Most people don't realize it,
but there are nearly 300 Fire Museums in the U.S. and Canada,
ranging from the spare room in a firehouse basement to,
institutions which inform, educate, and inspire us all.
Together, these museums preserve and celebrate the glorious
heritage of firefighting in North America.
Lichterman
Nature Center -
An educational facility and
wildlife sanctuary in the middle of bustling East Memphis. Its'
65 acres includes a forest and 10 acre lake.
Magevney
House -
This small, white clapboard cottage was
built in the 1830's and was home to Irish immigrant, Eugene
Magevney. Typical of pre-Civil War, middle-class homes, it is
furnished as it might have been in 1850 and features several
personal possessions of the Magevney family, including a desk
bureau and other antiquities.
Mallory-Neely
House -
Return to the splendor of the Victorian
Era when you tour the historic Mallory-Neely House. Walk through
this three-story Italianate mansion and see how an affluent
Memphis family once lived.
Memphis
Museum System -
Welcome to the Memphis Museum
System, a wide-ranging collection of historic, educational, and
technological attractions maintained by the City of Memphis,
Tennessee and Memphis Museums, Inc.
National
Civil Rights Museum -
The National Civil Rights
Museum, located at the Lorraine Motel where Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., was tragically assassinated April 4, 1968, is the
world's first and only comprehensive overview of the civil
rights movement in exhibit form.
Pink
Palace -
The recently expanded and remodeled Pink
Palace Museum is one of the largest facilities of its kind in
the Southeast.
Sharpe
Planetarium -
The star projector at the Sharpe
Planetarium brings the skies to life!
If
you are looking for history and museums you have certainly
found it. Memphis offers museums for art, history, technology
and music. The landmarks and architecture is famous and
interesting for the whole family. There is American
history right down the street from where you are staying while
you're in Memphis.. We have highlighted some information
below to help you plan a educational excursion in Memphis.