Unusual museums in Memphis

Looking for unusual museums & collections in Memphis? These 5 are the genuinely strange ones — Sultana Disaster Museum, Withers Collection Museum & Gallery, Memphis Listening Lab and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Memphis they'd never find on their own.

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Sultana Disaster Museum A small storefront museum ten minutes across the river holds furnace bricks, shaker plates, and other relics… Marion, Arkansas
Withers Collection Museum & Gallery Photojournalist Ernest C. Withers shot an estimated 1.8 million frames over six decades — Emmett Till's murde… Beale Street, Downtown Memphis
Memphis Listening Lab Built entirely around the personal record collection Ardent Records co-founder John King donated before his d… Crosstown Concourse, Midtown Memphis
The Cotton Museum at the Memphis Cotton Exchange Housed on the actual trading floor of the Memphis Cotton Exchange — once the largest cotton market on earth f… Downtown Memphis
Fire Museum of Memphis A single obsession — fire and life safety — filling a still-active-looking historic firehouse, Engine House N… Downtown Memphis