UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MUSEUMS/EXHIBITS
- The Carnegie Center in New Albany, IN. “Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage: Men and Women of the Underground Railroad in the Indiana and Kentucky Borderland”
- Dunkirk Historical Museum in Dunkirk, NY
- Erie County Historical Society in Erie, PA, chronicles early rural life, from 1822 to the present.
- Grey Roots Heritage & Visitor’s Centre in Ontario, Canada, the award winning Black history exhibit, “From Slavery to Freedom”, traces the history of Black settlement throughout Grey County, Ontario, Canada.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, CT. Take a virtual tour to learn about how Stowe changed the course of history.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Museum Washington, KY -- This museum was home to the site wherein Stowe saw her first slave auction as a child.
- The Kelton House Museum & Garden in Columbus, OH, has an experiential Underground Railroad exhibit. Fernanado and Sohpia Kelton were abolitionists who took in an ill runaway slave girl whom they found hiding with her sister in the bushes outside their home. The older sister went on to Canada but Martha Hartway stayed. Today you can watch area high schools perform the play, “Martha’s Journey” as part of the museum’s learning experience.
- The King Art Complex in Columbus, OH -- Feel what the long journey to the New World was like for slaves in the interactive permanent exhibit “Cargo: The Middle Passage,” which looks, sounds and feels like a slave ship.
- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, OH, devotes three pavilions which celebrate courage, cooperation and perseverance.
- Oberlin Heritage Center in Oberlin, OH, is the community historical society and historic preservation organization.
- St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canal Centre in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
- Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center Pennsylvania's largest history museum in Pittsburgh, PA
- Soldiers and Sailors Military Museum and Memorial in Pittsburgh, PA
- Underground Railroad Museum in Flushing, OH, documents the Underground Railroad in the Ohio valley.
- William Hubbard House Underground Railroad Museum in Ashtabula, OH, along Ashtabula Harbor.
- Follet House Museum at Wayne St. in Sandusky, OH, was a famous safe house and is now a UGRR museum and on the National Register of Historic Landmarks.
- Lenawee County Historical Museum in Adrian, MI, houses thousands of documents relating to business, government, religion, education, railroads, the military, the Grange, the Underground Railroad, prominent citizens, and many other subjects of local interest.
- Ypsilanti Historical Museum in Ypsilanti, MI, houses local history and an Underground Railroad exhibit with photographs and artifacts presented in a 1860s home.
- Historical First Congregational Church in Detroit is also known as The Living Museum and offers the Underground Railroad Flight to Freedom Program Tour. This is a “storytelling” simulation of a slave’s journey to freedom.
- Detroit Historical Museum -- Explore Detroit's role in the Underground Railroad in an exciting exhibit, walk the streets of Old Detroit, learn about how cars built Detroit and Detroit built cars, or view special exhibitions on a wide variety of topics.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSEUMS
- African American Museum in Philadelphia, PA
- Association of African-American Museums has links to museums nation wide
- Kentucky Center for African American Heritage in Louisville, KY -- Phone: 502-583-4100
- National African-American Archives and Museum in Mobile, AL
- National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center in Wilberforce, OH
- Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture in Baltimore, MD
- Sheffield’s Black Cultural Museum in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada -- Phone: 705- 445-0201
- African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County in Ann Arbor, MI, is in the center of many historic UGRR homes and offers the “Journey to Freedom” tour.
- Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit is the largest museum in the world dedicated to the struggles and perseverance of African Americans. Founded in 1965 by Dr. Charles Wright, the museum explores the diversity of African American history and culture. The core exhibit traces the history of the slave trade from Africa to the Americas and Detroit's participation in the Underground Railroad movement. The Ring of Genealogy in the rotunda contains the names of many of the prominent members of Detroit's UGRR organization.
CIVIL RIGHTS
Thanks to REI for their generous support of the
Underground Railroad Bicycle Route project.
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