The National Civil Right Museum was built to incorporate the
Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968. The motel, which had been a foreclosed property for many years, was purchased by the Martin Luther King Foundation in 1982. A visit to the museum finishes outside of Rooms 306 and 307 of the motel, which are left as they would have been on that fateful April day.