National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel
U.S. Civil Rights Trail Site · Memphis, Tennessee
The motel where Dr Martin Luther King Jr was shot on the balcony outside room 306 on 4 April 1968, kept as it was that afternoon — the two period cars still parked below, the wreath on the rail — and built out behind and around into a museum of the whole American civil rights movement. A second building across the street, the rooming house the shot was fired from, is part of the same visit and holds the investigation. It opened as a museum in 1991.
450 Mulberry Street, Memphis, Tennessee, 38103, United States
Open Wednesday to Monday, generally 9 AM - 5 PM, with later summer hours. CLOSED TUESDAYS all year. Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
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