![]() ![]() Executive director Beverly Robertson said it was time to take a fresh look at the civil rights movement through the eyes of the people who gave it life. That site marks the epicenter of a cultural earthquake. They gaze at the second-floor balcony where Martin Luther King Jr. But this Saturday after a nearly $28 million renovation that took 18 months, the museum will reopen with a new design that aims to appeal to an older generation as well as a post-civil-rights-era audience.Ībout 200,000 people each year file into the courtyard of what was once the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Its content hasn't changed much since then. In 1991, the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn., became America's first major museum to paint a broad picture of the civil rights movement. Visitors can go inside the bus and sit next to a figure of Rosa Parks. ![]() The Montgomery Bus Boycott exhibit at the National Civil Rights Museum features a vintage city bus. ![]()
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