Best places: Museums in Montgomery, United States

Collection exploring slavery & racial inequality via personal accounts, films, photos & sculpture.

Six-acre memorial site with sculpture, text & design dedicated to US victims of racial violence.

👍👍 A Vacation to Remember-Our knowledgeable tour guide, Mr. Hanif, shared the rich history of his family and others who lived and worked on Pin Point. It's hard to image that people worked there until the mid 80s! Also while there, I was surprisingly reunited with a family member after 27 years! Tear...

Monument & education facility dedicated to the men & women who fought for American civil rights.

This museum about the people & events surrounding the Montgomery Bus Boycott has a children's wing.

Greek Revival 19th-century building where the Confederacy began, with guided tours & a gift shop.

Tribute to the country star with memorabilia, instruments, iconic clothing & personal artifacts.

Clapboard parsonage where Martin Luther King, Jr. lived in the 1950s, with Civil Rights exhibits.

Historic Greyhound bus station commemorating the antisegregation activism of a 1961 on-site protest.

This enduring, 40-acre zoo features over 700 animals, plus a museum with taxidermy displays.

👍👍 The most informative museum in the South! We spent hours there and loved every section! Indian cultures, first settlers, all the wars through present times. Lots and lots of information on every era and tons of artifacts. This museum also focuses on women activists and politicians which is quite uni...

Educational museum celebrating Alabama's cattle farming & cowboy heritage, with a play area & shop.

Museum at the Montgomery Zoo featuring large animal trophies, furs & antlers, plus mounted fish.

😠 The seeds of racism are still prevalent throughout the Capitol building. Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy are revered throughout. Sad.

👍 The planes are on a military base. So extra time will need to be taken to get permission for entry. They have 10 full sized planes at ground level (see pictures), and one helicopter. None of these are open to see the inside, just displayed. But I enjoyed the view just the same.