Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery

The Rosa Parks Museum was created to remember Rosa Parks and what she stood for. She was a great women who was an activist for civil rights during the Civil Rights Movement. Because she was black, she was told she had to give up her seat to a white person on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus. Rosa Parks refused and history was written.

Rosa Park’s interactive museum is truly an inspiring place. The museums exhibits are very entertaining and informing. You will be able to see exhibits at this museum about Rosa Park’s life and the Civil Rights Movement. The bus exhibit is a must see while visiting the museum. Windows of a city bus have been made into video screens in this exhibit. Visitors can view re-enactment video of the actual bus incident while it plays upon these windows. This exhibit will make you feel like you were there.

After going through exhibits about Rosa Park’s life, you can take a leisurely look around at special exhibits that the Rosa Parks Museum offers about art and other things. A visit to the library that is housed within the museum is informative and checking out the gifts and souvenirs in the museum’s gift shop is always a fun thing to do while you are there.

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