The Museum is free admission and the gift shop does take debit of credit cards along with cash.
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.
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 "grandma's 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!
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.
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