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The Legacy Museum

Walk through immersive exhibits tracing American history from enslavement to mass incarceration, on a site where enslaved people were once held.

400 N Court St · Montgomery, AL

About The Legacy Museum

The Legacy Museum, run by the Equal Justice Initiative, opened in 2018 and moved into a much larger building in 2021. Its exhibits follow slavery, lynching, segregation and mass incarceration. You see soil collected from lynching sites, an interactive display of the literacy tests once given to Black voters, and an art gallery with work by Hank Willis Thomas, Glenn Ligon and Jacob Lawrence. One ticket also admits you to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and Freedom Monument Sculpture Park.

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