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Graceland: Elvis Presley Automobile Museum

• This automobile museum showcases a collection of Elvis’ cars and other motorized toys and can host 150 for a seated dinner or 250 for a cocktail reception. Attendees can also watch The King on a full-size movie screen located in the Drive-In area. The Drive-In can also be used to screen videos, DVDs or PowerPoint presentations. www.elvis.com/graceland

• The Memphis Botanic Garden offers the rental of its Lakefront Pavilion overlooking Audubon Lake. The pavilion can accommodate up to 800 for a picnic. Hardin Hall can accommodate up to 350 guests for seated dinners and 600 for conferences or seminars with theater-style seating. The Grand Gallery at the hall can also host dinner parties. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com.

• The 2,100-seat Memphis Cannon Center facility hosts general sessions for conventions in the Memphis Cook Convention Center, plus other events, including ballet, opera, pop and jazz concerts, touring productions and children’s theater. The center is connected to over 300,000 square feet of meeting and exhibit space, including a 28,000-square-foot ballroom. www.thecannoncenter.com.

• Originally built in 1890, the Grand Opera House featured vaudeville acts such as singers, musicians and magicians. Following a devastating fire in 1928, causing $1.6 million in damage, a new Orpheum was built on the original site of the Grand. Today, the Orpheum presents 10 to 12 Broadway shows each year, as well as two of Memphis’ local arts groups, Ballet Memphis and Opera Memphis. The theater can seat 2,400. The Broadway Club is located in the front of the theater and seats approximately 70 and 100 standing. www.orpheummemphis.com.

• The exhibition, which focuses on the birth of rock and soul music, was created by the Smithsonian Institution and follows the music experience from the 1930s through the explosion of Sun, Stax and Hi Records and Memphis’ musical heyday in the ’70s. The museum offers accommodations for a gallery-seated dinner up to 80 persons, multi-gallery seated dinners up to 170, lecture-style seating for up to 125 or receptions up to 400 persons. There are partner tours available of the nearby Gibson Guitar Factory. www.memphisrocknsoul.org