New plans for Mud Island echo its compelling past
A room inside of the Mud Island Museum is shown before it is transformed into Artist Christopher Reyes' immersive "Baron Von Opperbean and the River of Time.” (Benjamin Naylor/The Daily Memphian file)
The boat models that were the centerpiece of Mud Island’s River Museum were about to be “white-boxed,” or disassembled, from the imaginary river they’ve plied for more than 40 years.
That’s when a group of local artists taking a recent look around the park for an immersive, futuristic experience saw them in the museum that has been mothballed for six years and counting.
They decided to use the models for the experience to be called Baron Von Opperbean and the River of Time.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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