<P> In 1984, the group changed the name of their organization to the Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation . The Lorraine finally closed as an SRO motel on March 2, 1988 . Sheriff's deputies were needed to evict the last holdout tenant, Jacqueline Smith, in preparation for an $8.8 million overhaul . Walter Bailey, Lorraine Motel owner, died in July 1988, before getting to see the results of his efforts to establish the museum . </P> <P> The Foundation worked with Smithsonian Institution curator Benjamin Lawless to develop a design to save historical aspects of the site . The Nashville, Tennessee firm McKissack and McKissack was tapped to design a modern museum on those portions of the grounds that were not directly related to the assassination . </P> <P> The museum was dedicated on July 4, 1991, and officially opened to the public on September 28, 1991 . D'Army Bailey was the founding president of the museum . </P> <P> In 1999, the Foundation acquired the Young and Morrow Building, and its associated vacant lot on the West side of Mulberry, as part of the museum complex . A tunnel was built under the lot to connect the building with the motel . The Foundation became the custodian of the police and evidence files associated with the assassination, including the rifle and fatal bullet . The latter are on display in a 12,800 sq. foot exhibit in the former Y & M building, which opened September 28, 2002 . </P>

When did the national civil rights museum open