Memphis - Step Back in Time at the Pink Palace Museum

The Pink Palace Museum is housed in a 1920s building with Georgian Marble façade and is one of the largest facilities of its kind in the southeast. Inside is a superb reconstruction of its original patron, Clarence Saunders’ Piggly Wiggly the first self-service grocery store in the world. The sprawling museum also includes an extensive exhibition relating the history of Memphis and the surrounding area. There is a fascination section dedicated to old pharmacy with actual medicines and packages taken from the original Beale Street pharmacists as well as a fine collection of fossils including dinosaur bones.

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Memphis top highlights and attractions

• Beale Street Blues Bars
• Pig Out at The World’s Biggest Barbecue
• Step Back in Time at the Pink Palace Museum
• Sun Studios - The Birthplace of Rock ‘n’ Roll
• The King’s Mansion