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PINK PALACE MUSEUM
PINK PALACE MUSEUM

Memphis, TN

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Exhibition: Underground Memphis: Archaeology and the African American Experience
Hilderbrand Dagger
Exhibition: Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity
Asante Paramount Chief of Ejisu, Nana Diko Pim III wearing a rare Asasia Oyokoman Adweneasa cloth, Ejisu, Ghana, 1976
photograph; courtesy Doran H. Ross
Asante Paramount Chief of Ejisu, Nana Diko Pim III

Kente cloth close-up view
Exhibition: Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity
Kente cloth close-up view
Highsmith Mississippian Indian Pottery Collection
The 255 completely-intact vessels are in exquisite condition and many of them are beautifully-decorated with painting, incising, punctuation, engraving and noding.
Highsmith Collection
The Pink Palace Museum,
the Crew Training International IMAX® Theater and
the Sharpe Planetarium

3050 Central Ave.
Memphis, TN 38111-3399
(901)320-6320
Map

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)


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).


Pink Palace Museum: The Pink Palace Museum is one of the largest facilities of its kind in the Southeast. You can walk through a replica of the first self-service grocery store in the country, Clarence Saunders' Piggly Wiggly. Explore the cultural and natural history of the Mid-South through exciting exhibits, dioramas and audio-visuals. Trace Memphis' development from the time of Spanish explorers through the Civil War and the yellow fever epidemics. Learn from the award-winning medical exhibit how health care grew to be Memphis' largest industry.

Underground Memphis
Now through October 12, 2009

Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity
May 16 through August 16, 2009

Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity— May 16 through August 16, 2009,

Clyde Parke Miniature Circus Parade
The Parade will operate 4 times a day, for 30 minutes each day.
Tickets include Museum admission, $7.75 adults, $7.25 seniors and $6.25 children, under 3 free.
Tickets, 901.320.6362.


Along with the reopening, comes a new face. David Maness is the new Planetarium Supervisor. Maness comes to Memphis from Newport News, Virginia, where he was most recently Director of Astronomy at the Virginia Living Museum. As Planetarium Supervisor, Maness will be responsible for all areas of management for the Sharpe Planetarium operation, including producing new programs. Maness will also be responsible for taking the Sharpe Planetarium to its next stage of development -- full-dome digital video projection.

Historic Properties:
Mallory-Neely House and Magevney House
Currently, the Mallory-Neely and Magevney Houses in Victorian Village are closed.

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