August 11, 2023 – August 25, 2024
Highway 61: Traveling America's Music Highway
Presented by Eutaw Construction, in collaboration with Commissioner Willie Simmons, the first-of-its-kind exhibit will take visitors on a journey down what could be considered to be music’s most important and famous road—Highway 61—while exploring the music sites and celebrating the artists that played a major role in shaping American music history. The exhibit will be […]
May 13, 2023 – May 31, 2023
MTV Turns Forty: I Still Want My MTV
The first major exhibition to be curated by the GRAMMY Museum® Mississippi team, MTV Turns Forty will explore the history of the iconic music brand—from the role of native Mississippian, Bob Pittman, in the concept and execution of an idea that revolutionized the music industry and, to why, nearly four decades later, people across the world still scream, […]
September 30, 2022 – August 5, 2024
The Sounds of Southern Rock
Southern Rock surfaced in the late 1960s with the rise of the Allman Brothers Band. It exploded a couple of years later when groups like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Little Feat, the Outlaws, the Charlie Daniels Band, Molly Hatchet, and others re-established the South – rock and roll’s birthplace some two decades earlier—as a dynamic breeding ground […]
October 1, 2020 – August 15, 2022
Willie Mitchell & the Music of Royal Studios
In partnership with Memphis Tourism, the exhibit, titled Willie Mitchell & The Music of Royal Studios, is a collaboration between the Mississippi Museum and Memphis-based Royal Studios, and will tell the story of the iconic studio—one of the oldest in the world that continues to operate today—and the late Willie Mitchell, who ran the studio […]
September 2, 2020 – October 31, 2021
Celebrating Garth Brooks
GRAMMY Museum® Mississippi unveiled a new special display dedicated to Garth Brooks. The display features artifacts and personal memorabilia from the two-time GRAMMY®-winning country star, including the Takamine acoustic guitar Brooks played during his appearance at the Mississippi Museum on Sept. 24, 2019, and the uniform Brooks—a longtime baseball fan—wore when he participated in a […]
June 15, 2019 – September 6, 2020
25 YEARS OF JERMAINE DUPRI AND SO SO DEF
GRAMMY® Award-winning producer, Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, recording artist, and TV star Jermaine Dupri has been writing and producing platinum records for more than 25 years. To mark a quarter century of success with his record label, So So Def, the GRAMMY Museum® proudly presents “Jermaine Dupri & So So Def: 25 Years of […]
October 5, 2018 – October 20, 2019
And the GRAMMY Goes To…
And The GRAMMY® Goes To… is an exhibit curated by the GRAMMY Museum® that gives visitors a historical overview of the GRAMMY Awards® through interactive content and artifacts. Opens October 5, 2018 The exhibit celebrates past and recent GRAMMY winners through areas that explore how a GRAMMY is won, the star-studded GRAMMY red carpet spotlighting […]
March 3, 2018 – September 23, 2018
Legends of Motown: Celebrating The Supremes
GRAMMY Museum® Mississippi presents Legends of Motown: Celebrating The Supremes. Through rare photographs and an assortment of performance attire from the private collection of founding Supremes member Mary Wilson, the exhibit gives visitors a one-of-a-kind look at the life and career of The Supremes – one of the most successful American singing groups of the […]
August 29, 2017 – April 29, 2019
Celebrating the Musical Legacy of Michael Jackson
GRAMMY Museum® Mississippi presents Celebrating the Musical Legacy of MICHAEL JACKSON, a display celebrating the 35th anniversary of Jackson’s landmark album Thriller. Located in the “Current Winners” case in the Museum for a short period beginning August 29, exclusive Michael Jackson artifacts will be displayed in honor of the 13-time GRAMMY® winner and his album […]
August 22, 2017 – February 18, 2018
John Lee Hooker: King of the Boogie
“John Lee Hooker was truly a seminal blues artist. Many of his songs are part of America’s blues music treasury,” said blues historian and Founding Executive Director of the GRAMMY Museum Bob Santelli. “In addition to impacting blues history, Hooker’s music influenced great rock bands like the Rolling Stones, the Animals, the Yardbirds and ZZ […]
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