Museums
Rainy-Day PickGRAMMY Museum Mississippi
Under $25Explore interactive exhibits on GRAMMY history, recording technology and Mississippi's musicians in the heart of the Delta.
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MuseumsHistory BuffRainy-Day Pick
B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center
Follow B.B. King's life from Delta sharecropper to blues icon in a museum built around the brick cotton gin where he once worked.
400 Second St · Indianola, MS
About B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center
The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola tells King's story alongside the history of the Mississippi Delta. Galleries move from the Delta of the 1930s to Memphis radio in the 1950s and his rise in the 1960s, ending with his Rolls Royce and custom El Camino. The museum incorporates the restored brick cotton gin where King worked in the 1940s, and he is buried in its memorial courtyard beside a bronze of him holding Lucille.
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