List of museums in Alabama
The is a list of museums in the hall of fames; and a number of living history museums with a focus on local, state, or national history. Also included are non-profit and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included in this list.
Active museums
Museum name | Image | City | County | Notes | Refs |
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Alabama Administrative Office of Courts Museum Area | Montgomery | Montgomery | Exhibits of Alabama judicial history and important figures, located in the Alabama Judicial Building | [1] | |
Alabama Constitution Village | Huntsville | Madison | Living history | [2] | |
Alabama Department of Archives and History | Montgomery | Montgomery | Official archives for the state of Alabama, features the Museum of Alabama with exhibits including Native American, military history, 19th- and 20th-century historic artifacts, photos, and art | [3] | |
Alabama Governor's Mansion | Montgomery | Montgomery | Official residence of Alabama's Governor. Open for tours. U.S. National Register of Historic Places[4] | [5] | |
Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame | Birmingham | Jefferson Shelby |
Alabama artistes and memorabilia | [6] | |
Alabama Men's Hall of Fame | Birmingham | Jefferson | Housed in Samford University's Harwell G. Davis Library | [7] | |
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
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Birmingham | Jefferson | Medical | [9] | |
Alabama Museum of Natural History | Tuscaloosa | Tuscaloosa | Natural history | [10] | |
Alabama Music Hall of Fame | Tuscumbia | Colbert | Exhibits featuring 50 inductees and over 1200 other Alabamians | [11] | |
Alabama River Museum | Franklin | Monroe | Local history including fossils, Native American artifacts, steamboats | [12] | |
Alabama Rural Heritage Center | Thomaston | Marengo | History and folk art, operated by Auburn University's Rural Studio | [13] | |
Alabama State Capitol | Montgomery | Montgomery | State capitol building of Alabama. A National Historic Landmark, it is open for tours and is operated by the Alabama Historical Commission. | [14] | |
Alabama State Council on the Arts (ASCA) | Montgomery | Montgomery | Created by 1966 Executive Order from Governor George Wallace, established in 1967 by the state legislature. | [15] | |
Alabama Veterans Museum and Archives | Athens | Limestone | Houses artifacts from the Revolutionary War to the present day. | [16] | |
Alabama Women's Hall of Fame | Livingston | Sumter | Founded in 1970, by the University of West Alabama | [17] | |
Aldrich Coal Mine Museum | Montevallo | Shelby | History and artifacts from the town's former coal mine | [18] | |
Alabama Sports Hall of Fame | Birmingham | Jefferson | Exhibits of Alabama’s athletic history | [19] | |
Aliceville Museum and Cultural Arts Center | Aliceville | Pickens | Former site of the WWII Camp Aliceville 1942 to 1945 POW camp. | [20] | |
American Sport Art Museum and Archives
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Daphne | Baldwin | Gulf Coast sports. Located on the campus of the United States Sports Academy | [21] | |
American Village | Montevallo | Shelby | Living history | [22] | |
Ancient Wars Museum | Madison | Madison | aka Alabama War Museum, Exhibits from present day to 8,000 BC | [23] | |
Anniston Museum of Natural History | Anniston | Calhoun | Located in Anniston Museums and Gardens | [24] | |
Arlington Antebellum Home & Gardens | Birmingham | Jefferson counties | U.S. National Register of Historic Places | [25] | |
Ave Maria Grotto | Cullman | Cullman | Outdoor miniature reproductions of some of the most famous religious structures of the world. Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage National Register of Historic Places |
[26][27] | |
Baldwin County Heritage Museum | Elberta | Baldwin | Agricultural and cultural history | [28] | |
Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum | Birmingham | Jefferson | Vintage and modern motorcycles and race cars | [29] | |
Battle-Friedman House
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Tuscaloosa | Tuscaloosa | Antebellum house and garden, operated by the Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society. U.S. National Register of Historic Places | [30] | |
Battleship Memorial Park | Mobile | Mobile | Centered around the battleship USS Alabama, pays tribute to all military veterans from Alabama | [31] | |
Belle Mont Mansion
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Tuscumbia | Colbert | 1832 plantation house, influenced by Thomas Jefferson's Palladian architecture. U.S. National Register of Historic Places | [32] | |
Bellingrath Gardens and Home | Theodore | Mobile | Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, U.S. Historic district, U.S. National Register of Historic Places | [33] | |
Berman Museum of World History | Anniston | Calhoun | Ancient art, weapons, photos, clothing, hands-on displays and lifelike dioramas from around the world | [34] | |
Bessemer Hall of History | Bessemer | Jefferson | Local history housed in the Southern Railway Terminal Station. A 1916 railroad depot, it is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Displays include clothing, artifacts, photographs. | [35] | |
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute | Birmingham | Jefferson | American Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s | [36] | |
Birmingham Museum of Art | Birmingham | Jefferson | Collections from around the world | [37] | |
Blount County Memorial Museum | Oneonta | Blount | Artifacts, history art & lterature of Blount Countians | [38] | |
Bluff Hall | Demopolis | Marengo | Mansion built by slaves in 1832 | [39] | |
Booker T. Washington House |
Tuskegee | Macon | Home of Tuskegee Institute campus.
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[40] | |
Bragg-Mitchell Mansion
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Mobile | Mobile | U.S. National Register of Historic Places, built by Congressman John Bragg in 1855. | [41] | |
Bridgeport Depot Museum | Bridgeport | Jackson | Operated by the Bridgeport Area Historical Association | [42] | |
Buena Vista Mansion
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Prattville | Autauga | Built in 1822, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, Oct 1974 | [43][44] | |
Burritt on the Mountain | Huntsville | Madison | Living history museum | [45] | |
Carnegie Visual Arts Center | Decatur | Morgan | Originally the Carnegie Library of Decatur | [46] | |
Central Carver Museum | Gadsden | Etowah | To preserve the culture of the African American community | [47] | |
Children's Hands-On Museum of Tuscaloosa | Tuscaloosa | Tuscaloosa | Exhibits, seasonal events, birthday parties, school field trips | [48] | |
Children's Museum of the Shoals | Florence | Lauderdale | Hands-on exhibits for children ages 18 months-3rd grade | [49] | |
Clarke County Historical Museum
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Grove Hill | Clarke | Grounds include the Alston-Cobb House, law office, corn crib and cabin | [50] | |
Conde-Charlotte House
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Mobile | Mobile | Owned and operated by the Alabama chapter of the National Society of Colonial Dames in America | [51] | |
Confederate Memorial Park
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Mountain Creek | Chilton | Civil War exhibits, two cemeteries, a church and post office. Operated by the Alabama Historical Commission | [52] | |
Cook's Natural Science Museum | Decatur | Morgan | Natural history | [53] | |
Cullman County Museum | Cullman | Cullman | Housed in a replica of the home of Col. John G. Cullmann, German immigrant who founded the city | [54] | |
Dauphin Island Sea Lab | Dauphin Island | Mobile | Marine research and education center | [55] | |
Dexter Parsonage Museum | Montgomery | Montgomery | Where Dr. Martin Luther, King, Jr. pastored from 1954–1960 and began his quest for civil rights. | [56] | |
Don Kresge Memorial Radio Museum | Birmingham | Jefferson | AKA Alabama Historical Radio Society Museum | [57] | |
Dowling Museum and Rudd Art Center | Ozark | Dale County | Southeastern art | [58] | |
EarlyWorks Children's History Museum | Huntsville | Madison | Hands-on children's museum, includes the Talking Tree | [59] | |
Evelyn Burrow Museum | Hanceville | Cullman | Wallace State College | [60] | |
Fairhope Museum of History | Fairhope | Baldwin | Local history | [61] | |
Fayette Art Museum and Civic Center | Fayette | Fayette | Local artists and Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame | [62] | |
Fendall Hall | Eufaula | Barbour | Victorian period home with furnishings and gardens, operated by the Alabama Historical Commission | [63] | |
First White House of the Confederacy | Montgomery | Montgomery | Executive residence of President Jefferson Davis. Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage. U.S. National Register of Historic Places | [64] | |
Foley Railroad Museum | Foley | Baldwin | Exhibits, memorabilia, formerly the Louisville and Nashville (L&N) Railroad Depot (ca. 1909) | [65] | |
Fort Conde | Mobile | Mobile | Namesake of Louis Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Bourbon, Prince of Condé, operated by the History Museum of Mobile
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[66] | |
Fort Gaines | Dauphin Island | Mobile | The Battle of Mobile Bay during the American Civil War | [67] | |
Fort Mitchell | Fort Mitchell | Russell | Reconstructed 1810s fort and museum, involved in the Creek War | [68] | |
Fort Morgan | Gulf Shores | Baldwin | U.S. National Historic Landmark, U.S. National Register of Historic Places | [67][69] | |
Fort Payne Depot Museum | Fort Payne | DeKalb | Local history | [70] | |
Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson National Historic Park
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Wetumpka | Elmore | Replica 18th-century fort with living history demonstrations. U.S. National Historic Landmark. U.S. National Register of Historic Places | [71][72] | |
Freedom Rides Museum
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Montgomery | Montgomery | National Register of Historic Places. Bus station that was the site of a violent attack on participants in the 1961 Civil Rights Movement
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[73] | |
Gadsden Museum of Art | Gadsden | Etowah | Founded by the Gadsden Art Association (GAA) | [74] | |
Gaineswood | Demopolis | Marengo | Listed as a National Historic Landmark and operated by the Alabama Historical Commission | [75] | |
George Washington Carver Museum | Tuskegee | Macon | On the Tuskegee Institute campus. Closed for repairs and rehabilitation until Spring 2025.
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[76] | |
George Washington Carver Interpretive Museum | Dothan | Houston | Dedicated to African American scientist George Washington Carver | [77] | |
Georgine Clarke Alabama Artists Gallery | Montgomery | Montgomery | Operated by the Alabama State Council on the Arts, located on the first floor of the RSA Tower | [78] | |
Gorgas House | Tuscaloosa | Tuscaloosa | Oldest structure on the University of Alabama. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama | [79] | |
Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center | Mobile | Mobile | Variety of traveling exhibitions, Dome Theater | [80] | |
Gulf Shores Museum | Gulf Shores | Baldwin | Local history | [81] | |
Guntersville Museum | Guntersville | Marshall | Located in the Company E of the 167th Infantry of the Alabama National Guard Armory | [82] | |
Hank Williams Museum | Montgomery | Montgomery. | Founded in 1999 by Hank Williams Sr. fan Cecil Franklin Jackson | [83] | |
Hank Williams Sr. Boyhood Home and Museum | Georgiana | Butler County | Non-profit Hank Williams Museum and Festival Inc. oversees this | [84] | |
Harrison Brothers Hardware Store | Huntsville | Madison | Established in 1879, combination museum and operating hardware business | [85] | |
Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum | Calera | Shelby | Official state railroad museum | [86] | |
History Museum of Mobile
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Mobile | Mobile | Local art exhibits, 300 years of Mobile history | [87] | |
Huntsville Depot | Madison | City's railroad and transportation history. U.S. National Register of Historic Places, Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage | [88][89] | ||
Huntsville Museum of Art | Huntsville | Madison | Southern artists | [90] | |
Indian Mound and Museum | Florence | Lauderdale | Indian mound and museum with excavated artifacts from different cultures dating back 10,000 years | [91] | |
International Motorsports Hall of Fame | Talladega | Talladega | Racing vehicles and memorabilia | [92] | |
Iron & Steel Museum of Alabama | Birmingham | Jefferson/Shelby | Iron and steel manufacturing during the Civil War | [93] | |
Isabel Anderson Comer Museum and Arts Center | Sylacauga | Talladega | Arts and local history | [94] | |
Ivy Green | Tuscumbia | Colbert | Birthplace of Helen Keller U.S. National Historic Landmark, U.S. National Register of Historic Places Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage. |
[95] | |
Jemison-Carnegie Heritage Hall Museum | Talladega | Talladega | Local history | [96] | |
Jesse Owens Memorial Park and Museum | Oakville | Morgan | Birthplace of track and field athlete Jesse Owens, who participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics, where he won four gold medals. | [97] | |
Joseph Wheeler Plantation | Hillsboro | Lawrence | U.S. National Register of Historic Places, U.S. Historic district. Former home of Confederate General Joseph Wheeler, also known as Pond Spring. | [98] | |
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art | Auburn | Lee | Part of Auburn University, 19th and 20th century American and European Art | [99] | |
Landmark Park | Dothan | Houston | Alabama's official Museum of Agriculture, includes 1890s living history farm, a one-room schoolhouse, a general store, a turn-of the-century church and a planetarium, 100 acres | [100] | |
Lee County Historical Society Museum | Loachapoka | Lee | Multi-exhibit historical museum | [101] | |
Magnolia Grove | Greensboro | Hale | U.S. National Register of Historic Places, Antebellum mansion, best known as home of Rear Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson , operated by the Alabama Historical Commission
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[102] | |
Mann Wildlife Learning Museum
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Montgomery | Montgomery | Part of Montgomery Zoo | [103] | |
Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education | Fairhope | Baldwin | Founded by Marietta Johnson and focused on childhood development, U.S. National Register of Historic Places | [104][105] | |
Karl C. Harrison Museum of George Washington | Columbiana | Shelby | Biographical | [106] | |
Kathryn Tucker Windham Museum | Thomasville | Clarke | Located on he Alabama Southern Community College campus. The works of journalist, photographer and storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham .
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[107] | |
Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts | Florence | Lauderdale | Features annual and changing exhibits of artists from the Southeas | [108] | |
Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts | Gadsden | Etowah | Gadsden Community School for the Arts, Imagination Place Children's Museum | [109] | |
McWane Science Center | Birmingham | Jefferson | Native American artifacts, minerals and fossils from the former Red Mountain Museum , Challenger Learning Center, aquarium, hands-on science exhibits
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[110] | |
Mercedes-Benz Visitor Center and Museum | Vance | Tuscaloosa | Mercedes-Benz automobiles and plant tours by advance reservations | [111] | |
Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum
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Tuscaloosa | Tuscaloosa | How the city was influenced by transportation | [112] | |
Mobile Medical Museum | Mobile | Mobile | 5,000 medical artifacts and documents | [113] | |
Mobile Museum of Art | Mobile | Mobile | Wide variety of 10,000 works, plus activities for all ages | [114] | |
Monroe County Heritage Museums | Monroeville | Monroe | Host to multiple museums, includes Old Courthouse Museum, Rikard’s Mill Historical Park, Alabama River Museum | [115] | |
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts | Montgomery | Montgomery | 4,000 works of 19th- and 20th-century American paintings and sculpture, Southern regional art, Old Master prints and decorative arts | [116] | |
The MOOseum | Montgomery | Montgomery | Cattle industry in Alabama | [117] | |
Moundville Archaeological Park | Moundville | Hale | Operated by the University of Alabama Prehistoric Native American settlements | [118] | |
Museum of East Alabama | Opelika | Lee | Approximately 4,000 artifacts regarding live in East Alabama | [119] | |
National African American Archives and Museum
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Mobile | Mobile | Themes include slavery, African American contributions in Mobile, Alabama and the United States. | [120] | |
National Voting Rights Museum | Selma | Dallas | History of the African-American Voting Rights and Women's Suffrage movements | [121] | |
Negro Southern League Museum | Birmingham | Jefferson | History of the Negro Southern League and Baseball in Birmingham | [122] | |
North Alabama Railroad Museum | Chase | Madison | Features a rolling stock collection, a small train station and a small heritage railroad | [123] | |
Northport Heritage Museum | Northport | Tuscaloosa | Northport Native American history | [124] | |
Oakleigh Historic Complex | Mobile | Mobile | Historic Complex, U.S. National Register of Historic Places, Oakleigh mansion, cottage, Union barracks | [125] | |
Oakville Indian Mounds Park and Museum
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Oakville | Lawrence | 83-acre (340,000 m2) state park and museum dedicated to ancient Native American monuments | [126] | |
Old Alabama Town | Montgomery | Montgomery | Collection of historically significant buildings, brought together as a living history museum | [127] | |
Old Cahawba Archaeological Park | Orrville | Dallas | National Register of Historic Places. Ghost town archaeological park with exhibits in the Welcome Center, operated by the Alabama Historical Commission | [128] | |
Old Courthouse Museum | Monroeville | Monroe | Restored 1930s period courthouse, exhibits on local authors Truman Capote and Harper Lee | [129] | |
Paul W. Bryant Museum | Tuscaloosa | Tuscaloosa | Bear Bryant 25 years head football coach University of Alabama football team. 314 collegiate football victories | [130] | |
Phoenix Fire Museum | Mobile | Mobile | Operated by the History Museum of Mobile, located in the restored home of the Phoenix Volunteer Fire Company No. 6. | [131] | |
Pope's Tavern | Florence | Lauderdale | Stagecoach stop, tavern and in. Civil War hospital and other artifacts | [132] | |
Richards DAR House | Mobile | Mobile | U.S. Historic district Contributing property. 1860 Italianate house, operated by the Daughters of the American Revolution | [133] | |
Rickwood Field | Birmingham | Jefferson | Oldest surviving professional baseball park in the United States | [134] | |
Rikard’s Mill Historical Park | Beatrice | Monroe | Operating water-powered grist mill and museum | [135] | |
Rosa Parks Library and Museum | Montgomery | Montgomery | Troy University campus | [136] | |
Rosenbaum House | Florence | Lauderdale | Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in his Usonia style | [137] | |
Samuel Ullman Museum | Birmingham | Jefferson | Life and works of poet Samuel Ullman. Operated by The University of Alabama at Birmingham, | [138] | |
Sci-Quest | Huntsville | Madison | Children’s interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics | [139] | |
Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum | Montgomery | Montgomery | The last home Scott and Zelda lived in together. | [140][141] | |
Scottsboro-Jackson Heritage Center
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Scottsboro | Jackson | Located in the Brown-Proctor House, late 19th-century period house, area Native Americans, pioneers, local history | [142] | |
Shelby County Historical Society Museum | Columbiana | Shelby | [143] | ||
Shelby Iron Works | Columbiana | Shelby | Former iron works buildings in a park setting | [144] | |
Shorter Mansion | Eufaula | Barbour | Designed by Montgomery architects Frank Lockwood and Frank Lockwood, Jr. Operated by the Eufala Heritage Association | [145] | |
Skyline Commissary | Jackson | AKA "the rock store". Historic general store and former New Deal co-op, U.S. National Register of Historic Places | [146] | ||
Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark
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Birmingham | Jefferson | U.S. National Register of Historic Places, U.S. National Historic Landmark | [147] | |
Southern Environmental Center
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Birmingham | Jefferson | Located on the campus of Birmingham-Southern College , exhibits about pollution, green living
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[148] | |
Southern Museum of Flight | Birmingham | Jefferson | Southeast’s largest civilian aviation museum | [149] | |
State Black Archives Research Center & Museum | Huntsville | Madison | African American | [150] | |
Stevenson Railroad Depot Museum | Stevenson | Jackson | Railroad and Civil War artifacts | [151] | |
Sturdivant Hall | Selma | Dallas | Mid 19th century Greek Revival mansion | [152] | |
Three Notch Museum | Andalusia | Covington | Operated by the Covington Historical Society in a historic depot | [153] | |
Tuskegee History Center
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Tuskegee | Macon | Formerly known as the Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center, | [154] | |
United States Army Aviation Museum | Fort Novosel | Dale | Located on helicopters
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[155] | |
U.S. Space & Rocket Center | Huntsville | Madison | Science, rocketry and space exploration | [156] | |
Vaughan-Smitherman Museum | Selma | Dallas | Depicts Selma’s history until about 1960 | [157] | |
U.S. Veterans Memorial Museum | Huntsville | Madison | Designated by the Alabama House of Representatives as the State of Alabama Veterans Memorial Museum. Run entirely by volunteers. | [158] | |
Vulcan Statue and Vulcan Park | Birmingham | Jefferson | City history, history of the Vulcan statue | [159] | |
W. C. Handy Home, Museum & Library | Florence | Lauderdale | Focus on the life and career of the artist known as the “Father of the Blues” | [160] | |
Weeden House Museum | Huntsville | Madison | Features the work of Maria Howard Weeden | [161] | |
William and Emily Hearin Mobile Carnival Museum | Mobile | Mobile | Carnival and Mardi Gras in Mobile | [162] | |
Wiregrass Museum of Art | Dothan | Houston | Non-profit, features southern artists | [163] |
Defunct museums
- Blue and Gray Museum of North Alabama,Decatur, Morgan, Private collection of Civil War artifacts
- Carlen House, Mobile
- George and Lurleen Wallace Museum, Montgomery, dedicated to the lives of former Alabama governor's George Wallace and Lurleen B. Wallace[164]
- Ma'Cille's Museum of Miscellanea, Gordo, article[165]
- Magee Farm, Kushla, closed in 2010[166][167]
- Red Mountain Museum, Birmingham
- Tom Mann's Fish World, Eufaula, closed in 2004[168]
- Tuscaloosa Museum of Art[169]
- The Water Course, Clanton, closed in 2012[170]
See also
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