Pink Palace Museum - Memphis Museum

  • Address: 3050 Central Ave. Memphis, TN 38111-3399
  • Phone: +1 901 320 6320
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  • Website:www.memphismuseums.org
Average Rating
5.0
 31+ reviews
from 3 sources
Yahoo! Travel
5.0
 28+ reviews
Frommers
1.0
 1+ reviews
Yelp
5.0
 2+ reviews

Estimated Price: From $3

Pink Palace Museum
3050 Central Ave. Memphis
TN 38111-3399

Pink Palace Museum Details

Descriptions from Across the Web

  • This museum is housed in the Georgian marble home built in the 1920s by Clarence Sanders, founder of the Piggly Wiggly grocery store chain. Sanders never got to live here, and the city transformed the site into a complex of attractions, including the Sharpe Planetarium and an IMAX theater . The P... more on Yahoo! Travel
  • A pink marble building built by Clarence Saunders, the founder of the Piggly Wiggly supermarket chain: now houses ... more on TripAdvisor
  • The Pink Palace Museum is one of the largest facilities of its kind in the Southeast. You can walk through a replica of the first self-service grocery store in the country, Clarence Saunders' Piggly Wiggly. Explore the cultural and natural history of the Mid-South through exciting exhibits, diora... more on Memphismuseums.org
  • The Pink Palace" was the name locals gave to the ostentatious pink-marble mansion that grocery store magnate Clarence Saunders built shortly after World War I. It was Saunders who had revolutionized grocery shopping with the opening of the first Piggly Wiggly self-service market in 1916. Unfortun... more on Frommers
  • The Memphis Pink Palace Museum & Planetarium houses cultural history exhibits, an IMAX theater, and a planetarium. The museum, built in 1923, ... more on Weather.com

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4.0
fun - imax great!

(March 06, 2007 00:00)

It cost 26 dollars for my husband and I to see the exhibits and do an imax film. Oh man, that imax is awesome. We saw "secrets of greece", and I can only say ... premiergirl1, a user of Yahoo! Travel. Read full review on Yahoo! Travel

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5.0
A gem

Well worth finding - you will need to drive here, or a cab, but a real gem. The eclectic mix of old stuff, the amazing model circus, the re-construction - all interesting and fun. The plantarium is currently closed ... Whatbob, a user of Tripadvisor. Read full review on TripAdvisor

5.0
Robin J. 's review

Best. Museum. Ever. a user of yelp.com. Read full review on Yelp

5.0
Palace Purtee

I love this place, if they ever try to shut it down, I will be futile! It is the only Smithsonian in the Memphis area. ... P.J., a user of Yahoo! Travel. Read full review on Yahoo! Travel

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5.0
Ever So Fabulous

I love the history of the Pink Palace. The way the man who created it is honoured. The way the Memphis history is displayed. I learned about Polar Bear hair there. I liked just everything about the place. I was in a planetarium for the first time in my life. If I lived closer I would go again, an... Kate_63, a user of Tripadvisor. Read full review on TripAdvisor

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