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The Exploreum from Water Street. In 1976 the Junior League of Mobile provided funding for research and development of a hands-on interactive museum for the children of Mobile, with this initial commitment directly leading to the creation of The Explore Center, Inc., a private, non-profit educational incorporation, and a board of trustees. [1]
Alabama Mining Museum: Dora: Walker: Exhibits include a 1900s train and mining cars, one-room African American school, elementary school, post office, and depot. [8] Alabama Museum of Health Sciences: Birmingham Jefferson Medical [9] Alabama Museum of Natural History: Tuscaloosa: Tuscaloosa: Natural history [10] Alabama Music Hall of Fame ...
Old City Hall, also known as the Southern Market, is a historic complex of adjoining buildings in Mobile, Alabama, that currently houses the History Museum of Mobile. The complex was built from 1855 to 1857 to serve as a city hall and as a marketplace. [ 3 ]
GulfQuest also features a museum store, a museum café and several event spaces. Named "Attraction of the Year" for 2016 by the Alabama Department of Tourism, [1] The National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico is the only fully interactive maritime museum in the world and the only maritime museum dedicated to the Gulf of Mexico. [2]
A museum that tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement — opened Saturday, exactly 163 years after the vessel arrived ...
Apr. 11—On April 6, leaders from Athens, Limestone County and the Alabama Veterans Museum & Archives moved one shovelful closer to having a memorial park at the museum.
The current home for the Alabama Museum of Natural History, Smith Hall, is named in honor of Eugene Allen Smith. He was appointed as state geologist in 1873 and spent nearly forty years surveying, mapping and collecting scientific specimens throughout the state. The cornerstone for Smith Hall was laid on May 28, 1907.
n November 1954, 29-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. was driving to Hollywood when a car crash left his eye mangled beyond repair. Doubting his potential as a one-eyed entertainer, the burgeoning performer sought a solution at the same venerable institution where other misfortunate starlets had gone to fill their vacant sockets: Mager & Gougelman, a family-owned business in New York City that has ...