Wonderful museum. Free. Amazing 200th birthday celebration exhibits with displays of Alabama history that are interactive, educational, and entertaining. We loved the layout of the displays, colorful with just the right amount of text. Grandmas attic is a fun area for the kids, but also great for educational activities. Highly recommend it.

The Museum of Alabama is a national quality museum that no one should miss seeing. Free admission! Educational. Fascinating. I could spend hours in the Alabama Voices exhibit alone. Here are a few photos Ive taken over the years.

Great place to learn about Alabama history. Staff went out of their way to help me get a book on their beautiful state and its past.

Free museum offering Alabamas history. There is a kids area to interact with items. Lots of things to learn and do. Good way to stay cool too.

A definite must visit.Its free.Its fascinating.Its very well put together.Give yourself about 3-4 hours to truly appreciate its content.Great job Alabamy!

My daughter left her favorite water bottle. Reward if you find and return. Left on 3/7/20.

This was Great museum! Start from the beginning with the native American indians and then takes you thru the years ! Lots of history! Awesome displays!! For free!! You cant go wrong!! If you love history! This is the place for you!!

Housed on the second and third floors of the neoclassical Alabama Department of Archives and History building, the museum generally soft peddles the states history but doesnt completely ignore it. Alabama created an archive department in 1901, to collect and preserve records and artifacts related to its history. I’m pretty sure what the legislature had in mind, way back when, was preserving white history. But the museum moved beyond that (the world changes, thankfully). Anyway, among the exhibits is a room (and other displays) devoted to native Americans from the pre-Columbian era to exile. It offers a credible, if brief, introduction to Alabama’s first known human inhabitants. And the civil rights struggle isn’t totally overlooked either. But it’s a state museum, after all. Politicians aren’t going to spend tax dollars on an enterprise that shines too severe a light on its warts. This is history lite, with as positive an emphasis (and spin) as possible.

What a great museum! We just happened to drive by here and stopped to see what it was. Its an amazingly well done FREE museum! The whole Voices of Alabama section was beautifully and respectfully done. Theres a fun area for the kids, and theres also an area about people from Alabama who served in WWI. If you are looking for a place to spend a couple hours and learn a few things, this should be on your short list.

Great exhibits on the 200+ year history of Alabama. No white washing on any topics either - such as Alabamas role in Native American removal and the slave trade. Free admission and a nice gift shop.

The ladies at the gift shop downstairs were very friendly, and they had that sweet, beautiful and natural southern accent ... Visiting from the upper Midwest, I couldnt get enough of that accent.The museum itself was informative, and truly attempts to cover as much ground as possible. Beautiful building. I like the different rooms which use themes to highlight historical events I used my visit as a reference to to open new avenues for a deep dive into the states history.

Fantastic, free, museum in the Archives, 2d floor, that gives a very detailed and above expectations exhibits about the history of Alabama, back to ice age times through modern day. The hands on room amazes kids when they see the first Google (phonebooks) and can even get inside old phone booths and use an electric typewriter.

First off, admission is free. Second, its a great way to spend a couple hours and learn about the history of the state of Alabama and the region. They give ample treatment to the indigenous people that populated the region over the preceding thousands of years, which gave me hitherto unknown insights. Once you get into the arrival of European settlers, the collection follows a pretty familiar course and narrative. At the end of the day, Im glad this collection exists, I think its a great public service, and Im glad its free.

Great way to spend some time! Very cool exhibits. Kid friendly

Loved it. Gotta go back to see more.

I quite liked the Alabama State Archives and History, it was an impressive building that had a good portion of it dedicated to the display of Alabama artifacts. What I did not enjoy was the temporary World War I exhibit (as of July 2017) and the collection of paintings. The WWI temporary collection, seemed like it was an afterthought, what I mean is that they made the exhibit work no matter what for the size of the room they had available. My dislike of the steams more from a dislike of the style of several of the paintings, they just simply did not look like the people they were showing.The main exhibits were superbly laid out, and had a natural flow to them. My only critique of the main exhibits is that they would several artifacts on display and only one text placard there to describe all the artifacts. moving beyond that it was a wonderful telling of the story of Alabama, from the time when the Native Alabama Indians inhabited the land, to the white settling, statehood, the Civil War and Slavery, the Civil Rights movement and beyond. This is one museum that you cannot skip if you want to understand the story of Alabama.The Museum is free admission and the gift shop does take debit of credit cards along with cash.

Nicely done displays. Helpful staff.

This free museum is a nice way to spend a rainy afternoon. They have a hands on childrens room full of old games, dressup clothes, and more, as well as a scavenger hunt for the exhibit hall that earns a prize from the treasure box to engage the kids.

Beautiful building and lots of neat history inside! Will be back to check out more. Its free too!

Very informative. Great staff. They were wonderful to work with.

This museum is located in the AL dept of archives and history. There are several rooms with exhibits, with the Alabama Voices section being the biggest, and most detailed. There is also a hands-on grandmas attic section for the kids. My two year old was a bit young for some of it. But he was interested in all of the dioramas in the Voices section, and he enjoyed playing with the Lincoln logs, the typewriter, and the kitchen items in grandmas attic. There were definitely not a whole lot of people there. A hidden gem I would definitely recommend. And, it was free!

Here is great history of Alabama.

Impressed with the displays highlighting Native American history and culture as well as the Creek Wars. Impressed as well with the emphasis on civil rights. Appreciated the clear presentation of Alabamas part in the War between the States.

Beautiful place and learn a lot there

Great for robbing am I right

I loved the Museum of Alabama. It meant so much to see those that fought for what today looks like.

Educational trip about state

Great museum, free, and kid friendly.

Exceptional displays and free admission

Beautiful