FedEx Forum

Memphis


A downtown arena home to the Memphis Grizzlies, the city's only major professional sports team. Memphis does love its basketball squad, and this place is electric when the team is rolling. It hosts big-name concerts, too.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Memphis attractions

1. Withers Collection Museum

0.08 MILES

Featuring content culled from a 1.8-million-strong photo archive, this museum and gallery pays tribute to the work of famed African American…

2. WC Handy House Museum

0.11 MILES

On the corner of 4th St, this shotgun shack once belonged to the composer called the 'father of the blues.' He was the first to transpose the 12 bars and…

3. Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum

0.11 MILES

This Smithsonian museum, next to FedEx Forum, examines how African American and white music mingled in the Mississippi Delta to create the modern rock and…

4. Memphis Music Hall of Fame

0.23 MILES

It was a long time coming, but Memphis finally has a shrine to its own. This small but well-done museum, the sister gallery to the Memphis Rock 'n' Soul…

5. Elvis Statue

0.26 MILES

The world's first bronze Elvis statue was erected in this small plaza in 1980.

6. National Civil Rights Museum

0.49 MILES

Housed partly inside the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr was fatally shot on April 4, 1968, is the gut-wrenching National Civil Rights Museum…

7. Blues Hall of Fame

0.52 MILES

Dedicated to Blues Hall of Fame inductees, this intimate and well-done space features a rotating art gallery on the lobby level and a small but well…

8. Sun Studio

0.72 MILES

This dusty storefront is ground zero for American rock and roll. Starting in the early 1950s, Sun's Sam Phillips recorded blues artists such as Howlin'…