The National Civil Rights Museum, housed in the converted motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, reopened yesterday after a $27.5mn renovation, offering new interactive exhibits chronicling the civil rights movement. The museum reopened one day after the 46th anniversary of King’s death. On April 4, 1968, the civil rights leader was shot and killed while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in downtown Memphis. About 200,000 people visit the museum each year. The exhibit begins with a global perspective of the slave trade, where panels track the path and the numbers of people captured and traded, and the wealth their labour created.