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The Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art is located at 119 South Main Street at the intersection of Gayoso Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The museum was opened in 1998 as the Peabody Place Museum and in January 2007 it received its present name.
Pink Palace in Memphis (2008) The Pink Palace Family of Museums is a group of museums maintained by the City of Memphis and Memphis Museums, Inc. They display collections of historical, educational and technological significance. [1] The following museums are part of the group: The Pink Palace Museum and Planetarium in Memphis.
Many great points of historical interest in Memphis reside in this area. One is the National Civil Rights Museum. The others include the Blues Hall of Fame and the historic restaurant the Arcade, located on the south corner of South Main and G.E. Patterson. It is the oldest coffee shop and one of the oldest family owned restaurants in Memphis.
The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, founded in 1916, is the oldest and largest fine art museum in the state of Tennessee. A smaller art museum, the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in east Memphis focuses on impressionism. Downtown Memphis is home to the Peabody Place Museum, the largest collection of 19th-century Chinese art in the nation.
On Sept. 13, the Center City Revenue Finance Corp., an affiliate board of the Downtown Memphis Commission (DMC), approved a 10-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes for a 150-room Holiday Inn Express.
Located at the former Dyersburg Army Air Base, a training facility during World War II for B-17 pilots, now Arnold Field (Tennessee) Vonore Heritage Museum: Vonore: Monroe: East: Local history: website: W. C. Handy Museum: Memphis: Shelby: West: Historic house, music history
Midtown is characterized by vintage residential housing, a blend of independent and chain retailers, and high-rise buildings. Multiple historic districts [3] are located in Midtown, and commercial corridors such as Overton Square and Cooper Street developed before World War II in an urban style. Mixed use areas with housing, religious ...
When Memphis’ Hard Rock Café closed its doors on July 30, it ended a 26-year era for the music-themed bar and restaurant on Beale Street. Rufus Thomas' platform boots, a Furry Lewis guitar ...