{"id":12784,"date":"2012-09-15T09:39:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T14:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=12784"},"modified":"2012-09-15T09:39:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T14:39:51","slug":"today-is-downtown-museum-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/15\/today-is-downtown-museum-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is Downtown Museum Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free or half-off admission at many Downtown museums. Participants:<\/p>\n<p>Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art<br \/>\nHalf-price General Admission<br \/>\nSpecial Events:<br \/>\n&#8211; Two screenings of the Chinese film &#8220;Confucius&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; 10% off on all sales in the gift shop.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.belzmuseum.org\">belzmuseum.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Center for Southern Folklore<br \/>\nFree Admission<br \/>\nSpecial Events:<br \/>\n\u201c50 Years with Elvis,\u201d a retrospective of art created in honor of The King by Nashville artist Betty Harper.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernfolklore.com\">southernfolklore.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cotton Museum<br \/>\nFree Admission<br \/>\nSpecial Events:<br \/>\n&#8211; Guided tours, hands-on demonstrations and storytellers all day.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.memphiscottonmuseum.org\">memphiscottonmuseum.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elmwood Cemetery<br \/>\nFree self-guided audio tours from 8a.m. until noon<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elmwoodcemetery.org\">elmwoodcemetery.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fire Museum of Memphis<br \/>\nBuy one Admission and get one of equal or lesser value free<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firemuseum.com\">firemuseum.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Ogle Tours<br \/>\nFree City Tours<br \/>\n10:00a.m. Union Avenue Manhole Cover &amp; History Tour (begin at the Cotton Museum)<br \/>\n11:00a.m. Court Square &amp; Surroundings (begin at Court Square)<br \/>\n12:00p.m. Mississippi River (begin at Confederate Park)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmyogle.com\">jimmyogle.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Memphis Railroad and Trolley Museum<br \/>\nHalf price Admission<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrtm.org\">mrtm.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Memphis Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Soul Museum<br \/>\nBuy one Admission and get one free<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.memphisrocknsoul.org\">memphisrocknsoul.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mississippi River Museum at Mud Island River Park<br \/>\nBuy one Admission and get one of equal or lesser value free<br \/>\nSpecial Events:<br \/>\n60 minute Guided Riverwalk Tours of the Riverwalk model, 11:30am, 1:30pm, 3:30pm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudisland.com\">www.mudisland.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>National Ornamental Metal Museum<br \/>\nFree Admission<br \/>\nSpecial Events:<br \/>\n&#8211; Blacksmith demonstration at 2:30pm and a foundry demonstartion at 3pm.<br \/>\n&#8211; A special exhibition of work by Master Metalsmith Eleanor Moty, best-known for bringing the photetching process into the field of <a href=\"http:\/\/metalsmithing.metalmuseum.org\">metalsmithing.metalmuseum.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum<br \/>\nBuy one Admission and get one free<br \/>\nSpecial Events:<br \/>\n&#8211; Artists\u2019 market and live music.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slavehavenundergroundrailroadmuseum.org\">slavehavenundergroundrailroadmuseum.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stax Museum of American Soul Music<br \/>\nBuy one Admission and get one free<br \/>\nSpecial Events:<br \/>\n&#8211; Wattstax The Living Word: Special 40th Anniversary Exhibit is on display<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.staxmuseum.com\">staxmuseum.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sun Studio<br \/>\nFree Admission and Tours<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunstudio.com\">sunstudio.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>W.C Handy Museum<br \/>\nBuy one Admission and get one free<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wchandymemphis.org\">wchandymemphis.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Woodruff-Fontaine House<br \/>\nBuy one General Admission and Tour and get the second half-price<br \/>\nSpecial Events:<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Mourning Memphis&#8221; on display, featuring mourning rituals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and highlighting the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1878.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodruff-fontaine.com\/tours\">woodruff-fontaine.com\/tours<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free or half-off admission at many Downtown museums. Participants: Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art Half-price General Admission Special Events: &#8211; Two screenings of the Chinese film &#8220;Confucius&#8221; &#8211; 10% off on all sales in the gift shop. belzmuseum.org Center for Southern Folklore Free Admission Special Events: \u201c50 Years with Elvis,\u201d a retrospective of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/15\/today-is-downtown-museum-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today is Downtown Museum Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12784"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12785,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12784\/revisions\/12785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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