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The Rosa Parks Museum: Collects, preserves, and exhibits artifacts relevant to the life and lessons of Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the Civil Rights Movement. Provides educational programs and scholarly resources for K-12, adult, and lifelong learners. Email the Rosa Parks Museum at rosaparks@troy.edu. Phone Numbers: Tour Reservations: 334-241-8661; Gift Shop: 334-241-8616; Museum Information: 334-241-8615; Children's Wing: 334-241-8702 ; Location . Museum: 252 Montgomery Street, Montgomery, AL 36104 Children's Wing: 220 Montgomery Street, Montgomery, AL 36104 The Rosa Parks Museum is located on the Troy University at Montgomery satellite campus, in Montgomery, Alabama. [1] It has information, exhibits, and some artifacts from the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott. This museum is named after civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who is known for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person on a city bus. [2] The Rosa Parks Museum, located at the site of Parks’ famous arrest, is centered on Parks’ story and its place in the Civil Rights Movement and features a restored bus and other artifacts. Phone: (334) 241-8615. Address: 252 Montgomery Street, Montgomery, AL, United States. Cost: $7.50 (Adults), $5.50 (Children) Come witness Rosa Parks’ arrest, view a 1955 Montgomery city bus, and learn for yourself how a group of willing men and women led by the Montgomery Improvement Association fueled the resolve of a movement. Visitors will also view a 1956 station wagon used as the basis for an extensive carpooling system. The Rosa Parks Museum is a living memorial for Mrs. Parks and elevates her legacy by serving as a platform for scholarly dialogue, civic engagement, and positive social change. The Museum includes a permanent exhibit, “The Cleveland Avenue Time Machine,” as well as temporary art exhibitions and educational programs throughout the year. Experience the best jazz, blues, country, southern soul & more at the family-friendly Red Bluff Music, Arts & Food Festival on Montgomery’s historic riverfront May 16-18, 2025! Enjoy shopping with over 175 craft & commercial vendors, food vendors, live entertainment and FRIED PICKLES!! Troy University Rosa Parks Museum Opened in 2000, the Troy University Rosa Parks Museum celebrates the life and legacy of civil rights activist Rosa Parks and her efforts in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Ann Clemons will present “The Life and Legacy of Rosa Parks,” beginning at 10 a.m. in the museum’s auditorium. Clemons, a former employee of the Montgomery Convention and Visitors Bureau, first took on the persona of Mrs. Parks as a part of the Alabama Governor’s Conference on Tourism. Rosa Parks, the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" was the guest of honor when Troy University dedicated its new library and museum. The library will carry Mrs. Parks' name and commemorates her refusal to give up her seat up on the Montgomery City Bus to a white man. Alabama: 3-Day Montgomery City Multi-Attraction Pass. See all Montgomery has to offer with a 3-day pass for Alabama State Capitol, Civil Rights Memorial Center, Freedom Rides Museum, Montgomery Zoo and Mann Wildlife Learning Museum, The Georgine Clarke Alabama Artists Gallery, The Hank Williams Museum, and The Scott And Zelda Fitzgerald Museum.Discover the only museum dedicated to the lives It was a good visit. It's a museum that is affiliated with Troy University. It's located at their downtown campus, and was built on the site where Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on the Cleveland Avenue bus. The suit, which was settled out of court in 2005, sparked concern among some of her relatives that her name was being exploited by her legal team. As her health declined, Parks became more reclusive. Rosa Parks died in Detroit on October 24, 2005. In 2018, the state of Alabama declared December 1 "Rosa Parks Day" to commemorate her accomplishments. Exhibitions Current Exhibitions . Exhibition Hall. The Rosa Parks Museum will host returning artist V.L. Cox's A Still, Small Voice exhibit. Cox was reminded of the Nina Simone quote, “How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?” and used that as her guiding principle while developing this exhibition. Montgomery, Alabama. The USA's only museum devoted to Rosa Parks, who unexpectedly kicked off America's Civil Rights movement when she refused a bus driver's order to give up her seat to a white man. That was on December 1, 1955. The museum stands on the same corner as her bus stop, and opened on December 1, 2000, exactly 45 years later. The unveiling was attended by Mrs. Parks’s colleague and fellow civil rights advocate, Doris Crenshaw, who founded the Southern Youth Leadership Development Institute in Montgomery; Georgette Norman, former director of the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery; and Dr. Tommie Tonea Stewart, Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at In 1955, activist Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the whites only section of a public bus. This museum, set in front of the bus stop where Mrs Parks took her stand, features a video re-creation of that pivotal moment, which launched the Montgomery bus boycott, and by extension, much of the mid-20th century Civil Rights movement. Rosa Parks Arrest Historical Marker and Statue, and Rosa Parks Museum First, arrive at the corner where Rosa Parks was arrested and see the Rosa Parks statue next to the Court Square Fountain at the bottom of Dexter Avenue. Then head over to the Rosa Parks Museum on Troy University’s campus in downtown Montgomery. While living in Cleveland Court, Rosa Parks enjoyed working with young people and was very close friends with Rev. Robert and Jeannie Gratz. She attended church, at St. Paul A.M.E. Church where she served as a deaconess. Following the bus boycott, Rosa Parks and her family moved to Detroit, MI in 1957. The Troy University Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery is devoted to the life and legacy of civil-rights leader Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. It is located at the site where she boarded the bus that began the movement.
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