Montgomery, Selma Area Multi-Attraction Pass
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Save and do even more in Montgomery as you explore the city and what’s located nearby with the Montgomery Area Attraction All in One Ticket.This ticket contains 10 ticketed attractions and information on several attractions that are free to the public. What's Included: - Alabama State Capitol - By The River Center For Humanity - The Hank Williams Museum - The Museum Of Alabama - The Scott And Zelda Fitzgerald Museum - The Selma-Dallas County Museum Of History & Archives - Tuskegee History Center - Whippoorwill Vineyards - Freedom Rides Museum - Civil Rights Memorial Center - Edmund Pettus Bridge - Historic Davis Theatre Tour - Montgomery Museum Of Fine Arts - Montgomery Zoo & Mann Wildlife Learning Museum - Rosa Parks Museum at Troy University - Tabernacle Baptist Church - The Georgine Clarke Alabama Artists Gallery
Your experience
Stop 1
For 150 years the Alabama State Capitol has overlooked downtown Montgomery from its hilltop setting. This National Historic Landmark is a working museum of state history and politics. The Confederacy began in the senate chamber when delegates from southern states voted to establish a new nation in February 1861. A little more than a century later in the spring of 1965 the Selma to Montgomery March for voting rights culminated at the capitol steps. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made one of his greatest speeches to an estimated 25,000 people. The Alabama State Capitol is now recognized as an official destination on the U.S. Civil Rights Trail along with more than 100 locations across 14 states.
Stop 2
By the River Center for Humanity is located one block east of the Historic St. James Hotel. Our entrance faces the Alabama River and the beautiful Riverfront Park Walk. The Riverfront Park Walk offers you a wonderful opportunity to snap a couple of breathtaking pictures of the magnificent view of the Alabama River and the Historic Edmund Pettus Bridge. By the RiverCenter for Humanity is a “mixed-use” creative incubatordeveloped to provide for local performers and artisansa showcase to promote their talents, arts, crafts and merchandise.We offer to the public presentations, workshops, exhibits, performances, demonstrations, documentaries, specialty tours and interactive experience. “Soul Prints of Our Ancestors and Ourselves” is an interactive dramatization that enable participants to gain a greater understanding of the embedded trauma of the Middle Passage and slavery.This is included in your ticket, but you must call ahead to book this special event during your visit.
Stop 3
The Hank Williams Museum in Montgomery is the number one destination for country music fans of the most famous country singer in history, Hank Williams. The Museum is not just a tourist stop, it is a step back into the life of Country Music's first superstar, Hank Williams. You will be captivated by the southern charm of the Museum and spellbound by the artifacts, including his 1952 Baby Blue Cadillac. There has never been, nor shall there ever be, another Hank Williams. He was the Shakespeare of the common man and captured the hope, the pain, and the dreams of his soul in song.
Stop 4
The Museum of Alabama, located inside the Alabama Department of Archives and History, is the state's history museum. Featuring Smithsonian-quality, interactive exhibits, the Museum is the only destination where you can explore Alabama's story from prehistory to the present. Admission is always free.
Stop 5
The only museum dedicated to the lives and legacies of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald is located in this former home of the Fitzgerald’s . The museum is located on the first floor of the home and is filled with artifacts and staged to look like the time period they occupied the home. F. Scott had already written The Great Gatsby and was working on his novelTender is the Night,as well as a screenwriting job onRed-Headed Woman, a Jean Harlow movie while living in the home. Learn about the lives of this Jazz Age couple so important to American literature will visiting their actual home. The F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum located in Cloverdale the largest garden-landscaped neighborhood in the state of Alabama and only a 5-minute drive from downtown Montgomery.
Stop 6
Old Depot Museum, officially registered as the Selma/Dallas County Museum of History and Archives, is located a block down Water Avenue from the St. James Hotel on the grounds of the former confederate Foundry area. It is an interpretive museum that houses mementos of the men and women who helped make Selma the “Queen city of the Black Belt.” This area was the site of the Greater Confederate National Ordinance Works, the Civil War foundry in operation from 1860 until 1865, where the Brooke Cannon was manufactured. It took Wilson’s Raiders several days to totally destroy the manufacturing stronghold. The red brick, stone trimmed building in the Romanesque Revival style was built ca. 1890. The building is a contributing property to Selma’s “Water Avenue Historic District” that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and documented in select photographs in the Historic American Buildings’ Survey.
Stop 7
Designed as a permanent memorial to victims of the notorious Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the Tuskegee History Center also displays exhibits that include the founding of Tuskegee University and a glimpse of the heroic Tuskegee Airmen. All are part of the area's pursuit of equality in education, voting and first class citizenship, including planned activism, student protests, and community organizing. They are preceded by the area's pre-history and development by Native Americans, European Americans, and African Americans. Experience the unveiling of comprehensive human and civil rights history in a compact setting that sets the scene for today's social justice movement.
Stop 8
We are a small farm winery with award winning wines located in Central Alabama. We are open 10-6 Thursday, Friday and Saturday. No appointments necessary for tastings on groups of 10 or less. We have a variety of Muscadine, Grape and Fruit wines ranging from Dry White and Red to Sweet White and Red to blends in between. We have a gift shop as well in our tasting room. Stop by and visit for some good ole' Southern Hospitality.
Stop 9
In 1961 groups of volunteers made history by challenging the practice of segregated travel through the South. They called themselves Freedom Riders as they crossed racial barriers in depots and onboard buses. The 1961 Freedom Riders did not begin or end their journey in Montgomery, Alabama, but their arrival changed the city and our nation. The Freedom Rides Museum opened in 2011 in the historic Greyhound Bus Station where Freedom Riders arrived in Montgomery on May 20, 1961. The Freedom Rides accomplished the goal of ending racial segregation in interstate public transportation.
Stop 10
The Civil Rights Memorial Center’s mission is to serve as an instrument for education, reflection, and action for civil and human rights. The Center is home to the Civil Rights Memorial, designed by Maya Lin in 1989, inscribed on the memorial are the names of individuals who lost their lives in the struggle for freedom during the modern Civil Rights Movement - 1954 to 1968. The martyrs include activists who were targeted for death because of their civil rights work; random victims of vigilantes determined to halt the movement; and individuals who, in the sacrifice of their own lives, brought new awareness to the struggle. In addition to exhibits about Civil Rights Movement martyrs, the Memorial Center houses a 75-seat theater, an interactive exhibit of today's activist and a classroom for educational activities.
Stop 11
The Edmund Pettus Bridge, now a National Historic Landmark, was the site of the brutal BloodySunday beatings of civil rights marchers during the first attempt of a Selma-to-Montgomery march for voting rights. The televised attacks were seen all over the world, prompting public support for the civil rights activists in Selma and for the American voting rights campaign. After Bloody Sunday, protestors attempted once more before a final and third march resulted the successful Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March.
Stop 12
The Davis Theatre is a downtown Montgomery landmark and is one of only a handful of historictheatres still standing across the South. Learn more the theatre’s start as a as a Movie Palace for “talkies” and Vaudeville shows to its current operation by Troy University as a Performing Arts Theatre. This tour will take you inside to see and learn about its history. You may want to contact us ahead of your visit as this informative “small walking tour” cannot be conducted while performances are being held.
What’s included
- Other
Before you go
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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