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 “Letters to Santa,”
December 2nd, 5:30-8:30 p.m.
As part of the City of Mobile’s annual North Pole Stroll, the Museum of Mobile will host a “Letters to Santa” station where local children can send their last-minute Christmas lists to Kris Kringle himself. North Pole Stroll will also be the last night to view two of the Museum of Mobile’s traveling exhibits, RECOVERY: The World Trade Center Recovery Operation and Words We’ve Learning Since 9/11. These two exhibits have been some of the most popular in the museum’s history. Don’t miss this last opportunity to see these truly moving exhibits.
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The Museum of Mobile and the Mobile Fire - Rescue Department invite you to step back in history at Family Fun Day at the Phoenix Fire Museum. Learn fire safety from Mobile Firefighters and enjoy these fun activities!
Open to the public.
FREE OF CHARGE!
Phoenix Fire Museum
203 South Claiborne Street
Groups of 10 or more must make reservations.
For more information or to make a reservation, call 251-208-7723.
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The program will include performances by:
• Prichard Preparatory School’s Children’s Choir under the direction of Tonya Hazzard
• Blount High School's Chamber Choir under the direction of Dahlila Conaway
• Blount High School’s Momentum Dance Company under the direction of Candice Prosch
• Hosea London, Director of the Excelsior Band
Hosea London, will also speak about the history of the Excelsior Band, and Dr. Joaquin Holloway will speak on the legacy of Culture in Black and White, a Saturday morning performing arts program started by the late Ariel Holloway. There will be also poetry readings by Shawanda Amos.
We hope you will join us for this program honoring African Americans in the performing arts. The program is free with admission to the Museum. Admission to the Museum is $5 per adult, $4 per senior citizen, and $3 per child. Group rates available. For more information, please call (251) 208-7510. The Museum of Mobile is located at 111 South Royal St. in downtown Mobile.
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 FIGHTING THE DEVIL IN DIXIE
Wayne Greenhaw's Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama is the most comprehensive, dramatic, nonfiction account of what happened after the U.S. Supreme Court found unconstitutional Montgomery's city ordinance requiring segregation of races on public transportation.
After boycotting city buses from December 1955 until December 1956, when the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and his people rode the first legally integrated bus, all hell broke loose in Alabama's capital city. Gunfire ripped through nighttime buses. Churches exploded at midnight. Houses were blasted.
The Ku Klux Klan was preparing to blow up entire blocks of dwellings where African American leaders lived. Three Klansmen drove a young black man to the Alabama River and made him jump. His body was found floating downstream months later. Two white Montgomery detectives investigated the violence. Two members of the Klan were arrested. At the end of their week-long trial, they were found not guilty. The detectives believed this signaled to the Klan: anything goes! It was only the beginning of violence that spread across the state and festered like a malignant growth.
“Wayne Greenhaw's Fighting the Devil in Dixie does more than take you behind the picket lines, along the dark country roads and under the white hoods of the civil rights struggle. It takes you inside its very skin, and inside the South's broken heart. Wayne did not just cover this era, he lived it, really lived it, in conscience, in soul as well as mind. I'm glad this book got made, and glad he made it.”
— Rick Bragg, Professor of Writing, University of Alabama
Author of All Over But the Shoutin’ and Ava’s Man
Please visit his website: www.waynegreenhaw.com
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September – December 2010
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 Michael Thomason, Ph.D, will sign his newest book,
"HISTORIC MOBILE - An Illustrated History of the Mobile Region"
Sunday, December 5th at 1 pm.
Call 208-7653 to reserve your book in advance.
"HISTORIC MOBILE - An Illustrated History of the Mobile Region" is a narrative of the history of the Mobile Bay area from pre-Contact Indian culture to the oil spill disaster in the Gulf in the summer of 2010. It has many excellent historical illustrations drawn from various local and national collections. It is based on the best contemporary scholarship presented in readable prose for a general educated audience. Dr. Thomason's long career in local/regional history gives it a sound foundation in both research and writing.
Michael Thomason holds a BA from Sewanee and an MA and Ph.D from Duke. He is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of South Alabama, having taught there from 1970 to 2006. He also is the founder of the USA Archives and ws its director until his retirement. He has written, illustrated or edited nearly a dozen books on Mobile and Alabama history, and continues to publish even after retirement.
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 Friday, October 22, 2010, 4:30 to 8:30 pm
From Pirates to Presidents, The Museum of Mobile presents, A Night at the Museum. Come walk and talk with historical characters from Mobile’s history. Many characters from Mobile’s past have shaped our city into what it is today. Calico Jack, Raphael Semmes, Ann Bonnie, Cudjo Lewis, Octavia LeVert, Colonial soldiers… Come visit with a few of their spirits as they wander through the halls and exhibits of the Museum. Even Elvis will be here! Adults $5, Seniors $4, Students $3, under 6 Free. And remember… when the clock strikes 5, the museum comes alive.
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Smithsonian Museum Day
Saturday, September 25, 2010
9-4pm
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Museum Day is a one-day event where participating museums and cultural institutions across the country offer free admission to Smithsonian magazine readers and friends with a Museum Day Admission Card. Museum Day is an outstanding way to celebrate the country's cultural offerings, encourage the dissemination of knowledge and promote your venue nationwide.
Print Free Admission Card.
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In Her Own Words
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In the mid-1930s, as her writing career was just starting to take off, Eudora Welty worked as a publicity agent for the Works Progress Administration and traveled around rural Mississippi taking pictures of people coping with the Depression.
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Yoruba Cultural Festival
Friday, October 15, 2010
9:00 am – 2:00 pm
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 Bring your students to the Museum of Mobile to learn about the fascinating culture of the Yoruba peoples of West Africa. The festival includes storytelling and musical performances, a tour of a Yoruba art exhibit, and a mask making activity. This special program is available to Title 1 schools only and will be free of charge. For more information or to make a reservation for your group, please call (251) 208-7510.
Please make your reservations ASAP. Time slots for this event (9:00 am or 11:00 am) will be booked on a first come first serve basis.
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September 11, 2001
The Museum of Mobile opened in its present location 10 days after the horrific devastation of September 11, 2001. In quiet celebration we will remember those dark days with an exhibit organized by the NY State Museum, the exhibition – “September 11, 2001” -- features rare artifacts from the World Trade Center recovered after the collapse, and a timeline that traces events of the day. It includes personal stories and objects, images, interactive programs and films about everyday life at the World Trade Center and the aftermath of the attack.
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September 17 – November 27, 2011
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The Working White House
200 years of Tradition and Memories
The exhibit explores the occupational culture—the stories, traditions, memories, and skills—of the men and women who have operated, maintained, and helped preserve the Executive Mansion. Developed and supported by The White House Historical Association with assistance from the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Organized for travel by the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service.
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January 22 – April 1, 2012
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The Curious World of Patent Models
America’s incredible success is primarily due to the dreams and inventions of its many citizens. Few people realize however, that from the time the U.S. Patent Office was formed by Thomas Jefferson in 1790 and throughout the industrial revolution, inventors were required to submit a working, scale model of their invention when applying for a patent. The Rothschild Collection is the world’s largest gathering of viewable U.S. Patent Models. The exhibit of 58 objects includes a variety of Patent Models that children and adults alike will enjoy: household, agricultural, medical, toys, musical instruments, tools and more. Organized by the Rothschild Patent Model Collection. Tour by Smith Kramer Traveling Exhibitions, Kansas City, MO.
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Splendors of Asia
Through out history world travelers have presented gifts to our city and these Asian treasures of porcelain, silk and weaponry provide an exceptionally rare opportunity to view some of the artifacts from the Museums permanent collection
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