Delta Blues Museum General Admission

Effective October 03, 2024 a 6% service fee will or may be applied at check-out by the booking provider. The Delta Blues Museum does not receive any portion of this fee.

Welcome to the land where blues began...

Museum Hours:

Monday - Saturday 10am to 5pm
Final online reservations at 4:00pm

Closed Sunday and nationally observed holidays.
Please visit our events page for our most current upcoming events, special hours and closures.

About the Delta Blues Museum:

Clarksdale, Mississippi has been a center for blues culture since the 1920s. Its location as a transportation hub where Highways 61 and 49 connect, where the Illinois Central and other railroads maintained depots and passenger terminals, and where the Greyhound Bus Company built a station made Clarksdale an economic boom town.

Flush times created audiences with money to spend for entertainment, and the blues flourished in the city. Many now-legendary musical artists were born and raised in and around Clarksdale: Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Son House, Ike Turner, Jackie Brenston, Sam Cooke, Junior Parker, and W. C. Handy, among them. Clarksdale was a major market for the Delta's constantly traveling musicians, and the likes of Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, and Charley Patton are also associated with the city. Today, that historic blues culture is preserved for visitors while contemporary musicians carry on the great Delta blues tradition.