There are 15 article(s) tagged Memphis Pink Palace Museum:

• May 2025

  • The To-Do List: Slowdown Cinema, dragon boats and Cooper-Young cats

    This week, watch a ghost movie at Elmwood, meet Chris Parnell at Comic Con and eat all the pasta at Memphis Italian Festival.

    By Bianca Phillips, Elle Perry, Kelsey Bowen, Abigail Warren May 30, 2025

  • ‘Movie night for the whole city’ coming to a screen near you

    With concessions curated by the chefs at Kinfolk, Hard Times Deli and Comeback Coffee, photo installations and a 40-foot screen, there’s a new club in town, and it’s all about bringing the community to the movies. 

    By Kelsey Bowen May 19, 2025

• April 2025

  • Judge allows lawsuit against city, Pink Palace to continue

    In a lengthy hearing late Friday afternoon, Chancellor Melanie Taylor Jefferson declined to dismiss a long-running lawsuit waged by a Chickasaw Gardens resident against the Pink Palace Museum and the City of Memphis.

    By Jody Callahan April 11, 2025

• February 2025

  • Neighbor sues Pink Palace over parties, one-room schoolhouse

    A resident who lives near the Pink Palace is suing the museum, saying that its outdoor parties and events are too loud and that a historic schoolhouse on the property violates zoning ordinances.

    By Jody Callahan February 15, 2025

• November 2024

  • Don’t call it a comeback: Pink Palace reverts to original name

    The 2021 decision to rebrand to the Memphis Museums of Science & History was met with some blowback from longtime citizens. Now, Memphis Museums Inc. leaders are trying to manage confusion about its brand and locations.

    By Julia Baker November 11, 2024

• June 2023

  • MoSH spotlights national, local guitars and guitarists

    “We really tried to focus on celebrating Memphis music in all its different genres, from blues to soul to rock and roll to punk.”

    By Jada Ojii June 28, 2023

• May 2023

  • MoSH executive director Kevin Thompson joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar

    Kevin joined Eric Barnes on The Sidebar to talk about how MoSH – which includes The Pink Palace, the Lichterman Nature Center and other facilities – weathered COVID as well as new developments at the museum. 

    By Eric Barnes May 26, 2023

• October 2022

  • Conaway: A few things for my birthday

    “There are some things I want. I’ve wanted them for a while and the hints just aren’t working. So, I’ve made a modest list — 10 things you can choose from.”

    By Dan Conaway October 14, 2022

• June 2021

  • Opinion: A pink palace by any other name won’t sound as sweet

    It seems that the people managing the museums want to call themselves something other than the Pink Palace. But we “the locals” will never call the Pink Palace anything else. Even with a primer to explain whatever a MoSH is.

    By Dan Conaway June 13, 2021

• May 2020

  • Pink Palace and Lichterman Nature Center to reopen

    Guests will be “highly encouraged” to wear masks and required to undergo temperature screenings when entering.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff May 27, 2020

• April 2020

  • A new director takes science-history museum ‘back to our roots’

    Within a week of the city order to close because of the coronavirus, lesson-hungry homebound families were able to access Museum To Go, a sampler of Pink Palace artifacts, activities and movies. Kevin Thompson mobilized his gloved-and-masked education team to make museum content available in record time.

    By Jill Johnson Piper April 13, 2020

• March 2020

  • Coronavirus daily blog, March 16: SCS extends closure to April 6

    Confirmed cases

    Tennessee

    52

    Shelby County

    2

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    By The Daily Memphian Staff March 20, 2020

• December 2019

  • Photo Gallery: Pink Palace exhibit an enchanting holiday tradition

    The Enchanted Forest has been a holiday attraction in Memphis for more than 50 years, beginning its life in Goldsmith's Department Store with some of the same animatronic characters which still reside in the exhibit.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff December 25, 2019

• November 2019

  • Santa lands at Pink Palace to kick off annual Le Bonheur fundraiser

    Santa Claus took a quick break from his hectic schedule at the North Pole to celebrate the beginning of the Enchanted Forest Festival of Trees fundraiser for Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital.

    By Erinn Figg November 24, 2019

• December 2018

  • Pink Palace mansion reopens with new outlook on Memphis history

    The polar bear, shrunken head and miniature circus are back in the Pink Palace mansion as it prepares to reopen to the public Sunday, Dec. 8. The reopening follows a five-year rethinking of space at the mansion, which closed for two years for the physical transformation.

    By Bill Dries December 06, 2018