Delta Cultural Center

Arkansas State Museum Of The Delta, Opened 1990, In The Restored 1912 Missouri Pacific Depot And The Cherry Street Visitor Centre. Home Of King Biscuit Time, Broadcast Since 1941 And The Longest Running Daily Blues Radio Programme In History, Still Aired Live From The Building. · Helena, Arkansas

Helena sits on the Mississippi where the Delta blues came out of the cotton fields and onto the radio, and the Delta Cultural Center is where that is told. King Biscuit Time has been broadcast from this town since 1941, which makes it the longest-running daily blues radio programme in history - Sonny Boy Williamson II played it live, Robert Nighthawk and Robert Lockwood Jr worked the same airwaves, and B. B. King has said he listened to it and came here because of it. The programme is still broadcast live from the museum most weekdays, from a small studio the public can sit in. Around that the museum covers the whole Delta: the river, the levee system, the 1927 flood, cotton, the Civil War siege of Helena, and the gospel and blues that came out of all of it. The 1912 railway depot next door holds the river and railroad half, and admission to every part of it is free - which is not what anyone expects from a state museum this good.

141 Cherry Street, Helena, Arkansas, 72342, United States

Open daytime hours Tuesday to Saturday in most seasons, closed Sundays and Mondays and on major holidays; hours have varied, so confirm. Admission is free. King Biscuit Time is broadcast live from the building on weekdays around midday and visitors may sit in on the broadcast - that schedule is the thing to plan a visit around. The King Biscuit Blues Festival takes over the whole town for several days in October. Confirm hours and the broadcast time before travelling.

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