The museum dedicated to the Blues icon B.B. King has seen a remarkable expansion adding a new area that focuses on the last 10 years of his life.
In 2008, the B.B. King Museum was opened in his hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, in a renovated cotton gin, where he once worked as a musician. Shortly after his death in 2015, the icon was buried at the museum, which was described as a return home.
Now, following the expansion, the museum's exhibits will include King's Rolls-Royce, and the bus he used for his tours, in addition to many other memorabilia he owned.
B.B. King, his birth name is Riley B. King, was born in a cotton farm in 1925, in the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest regions in the United States. He died in Las Vegas, leaving a great journey that started at the local radio station and ended with international fame.
Later, critics described King, the Blues singer and composer, as the best guitar player in the second half of the 20th century.
According to Mississippi's tourism bureau, the memorial garden surrounding his grave has been redesigned. The museum is dedicated to the Blues Delta music, one of the earliest genres of Blues, which was dominated by guitar and harmonica.
