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• Children’s Museum of Memphis – A great way to spend an afternoon with the kids. CMOM includes hands-on interactive displays that focus on math, art and science, as well as a miniaturized grocery store for all of your little people shoppers!
• Chucalissa Museum – Built on a Native American Temple Mound complex, Chucalissa features Native American artifacts, an authentic reconstructed pre-Columbia village and an interpretive nature trail.
• Audubon Park – This park features a variety of recreational opportunities including tennis courts, a playground, a soccer field, picnic tables, a golf course, and jogging trails. Audubon also houses the W. C. Paul Arboretum and the Memphis Botanical Garden.
• Mud Island River Park – Just 100 yards or so out in the Mississippi River is Mud Island, a $63 million park built atop a long and persistent sandbar. Mud Island’s attractions include the River Walk, a working model of the Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois, to the Gulf of Mexico and a 5,000 seat amphitheater. Artists such as Bob Dylan, the Beach Boys, Kelly Clarkson, and Violent Femmes have performed there as well as a plethora of other acts.
• Memphis Pink Palace Museum & Sharpe Planetarium – The spectacular marble lobby is part of the original Pink Palace mansion built by entrepreneur Clarence Saunders in the 1920’s. Today that lobby is included in a tour of the museum, which gives visitors an in-depth look at local history, music, culture, and natural science, and features a replica of Saunders’ first Piggly Wiggly supermarket.
• Memphis Zoo – There are 3,000 animals representing more than 500 species that make the Memphis Zoo their home. It is one of the city’s top tourist attractions. In 2001, it debuted CHINA, an elaborate exhibit that houses two giant pandas, Ya Ya and Le Le. The Zoo already boasts such special areas as Cat Country, Primate Canyon, Madagascar, and Animals of the Night.

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