Delta Blues Museum

Since 1999, the Delta Blues Museum has been housed in the historic Clarksdale freight depot, built in 1918 for the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad. The building was designated a Mississippi Landmark Property in 1996. The former freight area and the adjacent Muddy Waters expansion – about seven thousand square feet of ground floor space – is devoted to permanent and traveling exhibits.

A 2013 recipient of the IMLS National Medal for Museum and Library Services – the nation’s highest honor for museum and library service to the community – as well as a 2014 winner of the National Arts & Humanities Youth Program Award, the Delta Blues Museum is dedicated to creating a welcoming place where visitors find meaning, value and perspective by exploring the history and heritage of the unique American musical art form, the Blues, as a Great River Road Interpretive Center.