Delta Blues Museum, Music museum in Clarksdale, United States
Description
The Delta Blues Museum is a music museum in Clarksdale displaying instruments, photographs, recordings, and personal items of influential blues musicians from the Mississippi Delta region. The building is a restored 1926 railway station that provides an appropriate setting for this musical history.
History
The museum was founded in 1979 and initially housed in an elementary school before relocating in 1999 to a Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad passenger station. This move allowed the collection to be displayed in a historically significant setting.
Culture
The museum displays Muddy Waters' original cabin from Stovall Plantation, letting visitors see how blues musicians lived in this region. The connection between everyday life and the music created here becomes clear when standing in these spaces.
Practical
The museum is located in an easily accessible restored railway station building in downtown Clarksdale. The building spans multiple levels of exhibit space, so plan time to explore the different areas.
Did you know?
Guitarist Billy Gibbons crafted special guitars from timber salvaged at Muddy Waters' house, and one is now on permanent display at the museum. These instruments connect the past with contemporary musical craftsmanship in an unexpected way.
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