The Pink Palace Mansion.
The Pink Palace Museum,
the Crew Training International IMAX® Theater and the Sharpe Planetarium

Visit the Pink Palace website: www.memphismuseums.org/media.htm

Handicapped accessible.

Museums Hours
Monday-Saturday 9am-5pm
Sunday 12pm-5pm

Call 901-320-6320 for information.

Closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve,
Christmas Day and New Year's Day.

$8.25-ADULT
$7.75-SENIOR
$5.75-CHILD (3-12)

Directions:

I-40 coming west: Take Sam Cooper Blvd to Highland Street exit. Go left (south) on Highland 1.7 miles, through three lights. At the fourth light (Central) turn right (west). Go 0.8 miles west and the Pink Palace is on the right.

I-40 coming east: Take Hernando-Desoto Bridge to Front Street exit. Make a right on Front Street then at the first light turn left on Poplar (east). Go 5.5 miles to Lafayette. Turn right (south) and go three blocks to Central, turn right and right again into the gates of the Pink Palace.

I-55 coming north: take I-240 North to Union Ave. exit east. Go 2.2 miles to E Parkway S, turn right (south). Go .5 Miles to Central turn left (east) 1.4 miles. Go through two lights. The Pink Palace is on the left.

I-55 from Ark.: Take Crump Blvd to Lamar. Lamar to Central, turn left on Central. Go 3.2 miles east on Central. The Pink Palace is on the left about a half block after the second light (Goodwyn).

Hwy 51 going south: Follow 51 (also called Thomas Street, or Danny Thomas) several miles into the city. Turn left on Poplar (east). Go 4.9 miles to Lafayette. Turn right (south) and go three blocks to Central, turn right and right again into the gates of the Pink Palace.

Hwy 51 going north: (also called Elvis Presley Blvd and then Bellevue after South Parkway)Take Bellevue to Union Ave. Turn right (east). Go 2.5 miles to Hollywood, turn right (south). Next light (Central) turn left (east). Go through two lights. The Pink Palace is on the left about a half block after the second light (Goodwyn).

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Headquarters for the Pink Palace Family of Museums, the Pink Palace was originally designed to be the dream home of wealthy entrepreneur Clarence Saunders. The museum derives its name from the mansion's ornate pink Georgian marble facade. Saunders, an entrepreneur and founder of Piggly Wiggly, began building the house in the early 1920's, but due to a legal dispute with the New York Stock Exchange, he had to declare bankruptcy and the unfinished building was eventually given to the city in the late 1920s for use as a museum.