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A look inside the defunct Mississippi River Museum at Mud Island in Memphis on Friday, June 7, 2024. A group wants to bring the "Baron Von Opperbean and the River of Time" immersive experience to ...
According to the Memphis River Parks Partnership presentation at the meeting, 700,000 people from over 182 zip codes have visited Tom Lee Park since its opening on Labor Day of 2023. And 57% of ...
The Memphis River Parks Partnership (MRPP), known as the Riverfront Development Corporation (RDC) until being renamed in April 2018, is a nonprofit organization that manages and develops the various riverfront parks and amenities located along the Mississippi River in Memphis, Tennessee, on behalf of the city government.
J.W. Gibson, a board member for the Memphis River Parks Partnership, Carol Coletta, president and CEO of the Memphis River Parks Partnership, Mayor Jim Strickland, and Rep. Steve Cohen smile as ...
The Mississippi River Museum was on Mud Island from 1982 to 2019. It included 18 galleries and exhibits and presented the history of the lower Mississippi River Valley over the span of the last 10,000 years. The museum also displayed over 5,000 artifacts. [7] The Mud Island Amphitheater is a concrete outdoor amphitheater that seats up to 5,000 ...
Tom Lee Park is a city park located to the immediate west of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, overlooking the Mississippi River.Encompassing about 30 acres (12 ha) parallel to the Mississippi River for about one mile (1.6 km), it offers panoramic views of the Mississippi River and the shores of Arkansas on the opposite side.
Memphis River Parks Partnership hailed Coletta as the “visionary behind the new Tom Lee Park and reimagined riverfront.”
The museum opened in 1982 with the goal of "preserv[ing] and promot[ing] the natural and cultural history of the Lower Mississippi River Valley". [ 1 ] In 1990, businessman Sidney Shlenker (known locally for managing construction of the Memphis Pyramid ) planned to shut down the museum to make space for new bars and restaurants on the island.