Aretha Franklin Exhibit Debuts With Eye Toward Her Legacy

by Associated Press via https://www.billboard.com

The Detroit museum that hosted Aretha Franklin’s public visitations after her death is again holding space for her — this time with an exhibit featuring photographs, videos and the red shoes she wore at the first funeral viewing that drew global attention.

Billed as a “tribute to the Queen of Soul,” ″THINK” opens to the public Tuesday (Sept. 25) at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and runs until Jan. 21, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The show is a prelude what the museum envisions is a larger, long-term exhibit that would debut late next year or in early 2020. And both could be a proving ground for a permanent museum honoring Franklin and her family.

“My aunt used to always talk about having a Franklin family museum,” Franklin’s …

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