Rosa Parks Museum

The Rosa Parks Museum at 252 Montgomery Street in Montgomery belongs to Troy University and opened on December 1, 2000, the anniversary of Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her bus seat. It commemorates Parks, the "mother of the civil rights movement", and the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott. It displays information, exhibits and some original objects; the actual bus is at the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan, and a replica can be seen in the museum itself.

The exhibition offers interactive stations and a reenactment of the bus incident. For the boycott's 65th anniversary, two traveling exhibitions were added, including "The Women of the Movement" about activists such as Claudette Colvin and Jo Ann Robinson. Allow about one to two hours for the visit. Downtown Montgomery is compact; the museum can be combined on foot with other civil rights sites, such as the State Capitol and the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church.