National Civil Rights Museum - Lorraine Motel

"The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination... the first museum to trace America's civil rights movement opened its doors at the tragically historic site."

"An outstanding facility that documents the civil rights movement through exhibits and clever audiovisual displays." Full review

"Housed in the Lorraine Motel, where the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr was fatally shot on April 4, 1968, is the gut-wrenching National Civil Rights Museum." Full review

"Today the former hotel is a 10,000sq ft memorial depicting key events of the US civil rights movement in the 1950s and 60s." Full review

"The National Civil Rights Museum symbolizes one of the darkest moments in the history of Memphis while serving as one of its great tourism points of pride." Full review

"The museum focuses on the major events of the civil rights movement, including events surrounding the integration of Central High School in Little Rock and the march on Selma." Full review

"The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work. " Full review

"From the outside, the National Civil Rights Museum looks exactly as it did in the 1950s when it was the Lorraine Motel, the best hotel in the region for African Americans in the segregation era." Full review

"Housed in the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the museum features multimedia presentations on the civil rights movement." Full review

"One of the most important museums in the South—if not the country as a whole." Full review