Courtesy of National Blues Museum
ST. LOUIS–The National Blues Museum is in a former department store in downtown St. Louis. The museum got a lot of love even before its April 2 grand opening, as the $14 million center was named a top travel destination by the New York Times and Smithsonian Magazine.
I waited until the doors opened to get my mojo talkin’.
The National Blues Museum is a snappy, well told story with lots of panels, posters and photographs. It has an ambitious vision. It is billed as the only institution of its kind dedicated exclusively to preserving and [...]
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The National Blues Museum is virtually completed in terms of design and slated to open mid-2015.
The downer for Chicago blues fans is that the $14 million museum will be in downtown St. Louis.
Members of the Chicago music community have talked about a Chicago blues museum almost since Muddy Waters plugged in.
In the summer of 2012 there were rumblings of “The Blues Experience,” a blues museum-nightclub with classrooms to be built in the former Block 37 shopping center on State Street. Last fall it was reported that “Blues Experience” developers Bill Selonick and Sona Wang [...]
