Stax Museum of American Soul Music

Unlike Sun Studio, the Stax Recording Studios building (originally a theater) was torn down. The Stax museum sits on a small campus with the Stax Music Academy and the Soulsville Charter School.

To emphasize the importance of gospel music to soul music, the museum rebuilt a small African American church, Hoopers Chapel AME, from Duncan, Mississippi:

Most of the museum's displays highlighted a Stax artist and looked like this (for Rufus Thomas):

There was a small dance floor in front of a screen showing Soul Train clips:

Otis Redding:

Isaac Hayes' office:

His Oscar and his Cadillac:

Some of the old sound boards:

Studio instruments. Booker T.'s organ, used for "Green Onions," is on the left:

Here's the front of the organ.

There's a gallery with walls covered floor to ceiling with album jackets, like these:

I loved this map of various soul landmarks:

The closest bus stop: