ATTRACTIONS

Amusements

• Armory Learning Arts Center
  1018 Madison Avenue • Montgomery, AL 36104
  334-241-2787
  The Armory Learning Arts Center offers a variety of art-related classes including visual art, voice, and photography. In addition, the Armory is hometo the Arts Council of Montgomery, Alabama Dance Theatre, and the nationally recognized Armory Gymnastics.   map

• Lambert Fun Zone
  6820 Oats Drive • Montgomery, AL 36117
  Corner of Atlanta Highway and Brown Springs Road
  334-420-4386
  A 61,000 square foot facility with a rock climbing wall, roller skating rink, roller coaster Max Flight simulator, bumper cars, and more!  map

Historic Homes & Buildings

• Alabama Judicial Building
  300 Dexter Avenue • Montgomery, AL 36104
  334-242-4347
  Home of Alabama's Supreme Court, this building also houses the Courts of Criminal and Civil Appeals and the State Law Library.  map

• Alabama State Capitol
  Bainbridge Street and Dexter Avenue
  334-242-3935
  One of the few state capitols listed on the National Historic Register, this building is also the site where Jefferson Davis took oath of office as President of the Confederate States of America.

• First White House Of The Confederacy (circa 1835)
  644 Washington Avenue • Montgomery, AL 36130
  334-242-1861
  Italianate-style house was home to President and Mrs. Jefferson Davis while the capitol of Confederacy was in Montgomery.  map

• Martin Luther King Jr.'s Former Home (circa 1920's)
  309 South Jackson Street • Montgomery, AL 36104
  Dr. King and his family lived here from 1954 to 1960, when he led the Montgomery Bus Boycott.  map

• Murphy House
  22 Bibb Street • Montgomery, AL 36104
  334-240-1600
  Now home of the Montgomery Waterworks Board. This antebellum mansion housed Union Troops during Reconstruction. Open Monday through Friday.   map

• Old Alabama Town
  301 Columbus Street • Montgomery, AL 36104
  334-240-4500, 888-240-1850
  Authentically restored 19-and early 20th-century buildings stretching along six blocks in historic downtown Montgomery. more...  map

• Scott And Zelda Fitzgerald Museum
  919 Felder Avenue Apt. B, P.O. Box 64 • Montgomery, AL 36106
  334-264-4222 or 334-262-9562
  Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived here from 1931 to 1932.  more...  map

• St. John's Episcopal Church (circa 1855)
  113 Madison Avenue • Montgomery, AL 36104
  334-262-1937
  Gothic-style church, designed by Wills & Dudley of New York. Oldest Episcopal church in Montgomery.  map

• Teague House
  468 South Perry Street • Montgomery, AL 36104
  334-242-3184
  One of the South's finest examples of late Greek Revival architecture.   map

Historic Sites & Monuments

• Civil Rights Memorial
  400 Washington Avenue • Montgomery, AL 36104
  334-264-0286
  This memorial chronicles key events in the civil rights movements and bears the names of 40 men, women, and children died during such events.  map

• Hank Williams Statue
  Located in Lister Hill Park
  A life-sized statue of country music star Hank Williams can be found across from the City Auditorium where his funeral was held.  map

• Maxwell Air Force Base
  West Montgomery off Bell Street
  334-953-6201
  The Wright Brothers established the world's first civilian flying school on this site in 1910.  map

Libraries & Research Centers

• Rosa Parks Library and Museum
  252 & 220 Montgomery Street • Montgomery, AL 36104
  Located at Troy University-Montgomery
  334-241-8615
  The Rosa Parks Library and Museum serves as a historical milestone to those who strive to understand the event that began the famous boycott. The Children's Wing features a time-traveling bus, an archive room with videos, audio recordings, and images of the Civil Rights Movement. more...  map

Museums & Galleries

• Alabama Archives and History Museum
  624 Washington Avenue • Montgomery, AL 36104
  334-242-4363
  Oldest state-funded archives in nation, housed in marble building completed in 1940. Grandma's Attic and Discovery Box are special hands-on galleries for children.  map

• Alabama Artists Gallery
  201 Monroe Street • Montgomery, AL 36130
  334-242-4076
  State gallery designated to showcase the art and artists of Alabama.  map

• Alabama Cattlemens' Mooseum
  201 South Bainbridge Street • Montgomery, AL 36104
  334-265-1867
  This Mooseum preserves the agricultural history of Alabama. It highlights the cattle industry from past to present day technological advances.  map

• CAS Gallery & Frames
  2690 Zelda Road, Suite F • Montgomery, AL 36106
  334-271-3772
  This gallery offers fine art services, consulting, appraisals, brokerage, and sales.  more...  map

• Green Garden Gallery
  1041 East Fairview Avenue • Montgomery, AL 36106
  334-262-0775
  The office, gallery and design center for nationally known Barbara Gallagher.   map

• Hank Williams Museum, The
  118 Commerce Street • Montgomery, AL 36104
  Located in Downtown Montgomery
  334-262-3600
  The official Hank Williams Museum is situated in the home where Williams lived from 1937 until 1953. The most complete collection of memorabilia with over 35 showcases, including his 1952 Cadillac, records and clothing, can be found here. The final resting place of Hank and Audrey Williams, Oakland Cemetery, is just five minutes from this museum. more...  map

• Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
  1 Museum Drive • Montgomery, AL 36117
  334-244-5700
  Its permanent collection includes examples of 19th-and 20th-century American paintings and sculpture, Southern regional art, and Old Master prints. The museum also includes ARTWORKS, Alabama's first interactive fine arts gallery for children. more...  map

• New South Art Shop
  115 Montgomery Street • Montgomery, AL 36106
  334-269-6200
  Specializes in an eclectic group of handcrafted items from artist around the Southeast.   map

• Sac's Gallery
  2019 Clubview Street • Montgomery, AL 36106
  Mulberry Street District
  334-265-9931
  Founded in 1979, this co-op gallery features original works by local artists. more...  map

Parks, Gardens & Zoos

• Blount Cultural Park
  6065 Vaughn Road • Montgomery, AL 36116
  Near I-85, Exit 6 East Boulevard
  334-274-0062
  The park offers 300 acres of rolling hills, three large lakes, the lovely Shakespear Gardens and is home for Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Roadways and walkways are open fron dawn untill one hour after the theatre closes. more...  map

• Fort Toulouse-Jackson Park
  Highway 231 North • Montgomery, AL 36092
  Wetumpka
  334-567-3002
  This 165-acre park contains the William Bartram Arboretum, a museum, historic buildings, and an indian mound. Campgrounds are on site.  map

• Jasmine Hill Gardens and Outdoor Museum
  P.O. Box 210792 • Montgomery, AL 36121-0792
  Located off U.S. 231 North on Jasmine Hill
  334-567-6463
  Known as Alabama's Little Corner of Greece, the Jasmine Hill Gardens and Outdoor Museum features over 20 acres of year-round floral beauty and classical sculpture, including new statuary honoring Olympic heroes and mythical gods. A tour of Jasmine Hill offers spectacular and ever-changing views, including a full-scale replica of the Temple of Hera ruins as found in Olympia, Greece, the birthplace of the Olympic Flame.   map

• Montgomery Zoo
  2301 Coliseum Parkway • Montgomery, AL 36110
  334-240-4900
  Visit 40 acres featuring habitats from 5 continents with naturalistic, barrier-free exhibits for more than 700 animals.  map

• Shakespeare Gardens
  Vaughn Road/Woodmere Drive, East of East Blvd
  334-274-0062
  This 56,700 square foot garden complex features plants, flowers, willow arbors, shade trees, and garden shrubs. There is also a thatched-roof pavilion and a 325-seat Amphitheater.  more...  map

Science & Technology

• W.A. Gayle Planetarium
  1010 Forest Avenue • Montgomery, AL 36106
  Oak Park
  334-241-4799
  One of the major facilities of its kind in the U.S. The auditorium seats 235 people and is designed specifically for simulating natural sky by projecting images of sun, moon, planets and stars.  more...  map

Tours & Cruises

• Governor's Mansion (circa 1907)
  1142 South Perry Street • Montgomery, AL 36104
  at the corner of South and South Perry Street
  334-834-3022
  Driving tour only. Alabama governors and families have lived in this 17-room house since 1951.  map