GulfQuest Maritime Museum

The GulfQuest/National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico in Mobile is hosting a Family Fun Day on Saturday, April 13, with free admission offered from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Visitors and families are invited to enjoy a day of exploration, excitement and entertainment.

Earth Day is celebrated during the month of April, but there are also several other free events happening throughout coastal Alabama this month to help people learn about and appreciate the local environment.

A new exhibit honoring the work of famous Alabama biologist EO Wilson is open now at GulfQuest Museum in Mobile.

Nearly 40 works of art by 28 artists from the United States Coast Guard Art Program are now on view at the GulfQuest National Maritime Museum. The art will be on display through December.

All month long, the Alabama Public Radio news team has featured excerpts from a public discussion on slavery in the state. The event took place at the GulfQuest Maritime Museum in Mobile, which is hosting an exhibition on slave ships

Alabama Public Radio has been spotlighting the history of the slave ship Clotilda all throughout February for Black History Month. Africatown in the Plateau community in Mobile was established by some of the one hundred and twenty two kidnapped Africans brought over aboard the Clotilda in 1860. There’s now a new effort to use old traditions to tell the story of the last slave ship to come to America.

The Alabama Public Radio news team was recently invited to take part in a public discussion on slavery in the state. The event took place at the GulfQuest Maritime Museum in Mobile, which is hosting an exhibition on slave ships. I was joined on stage by William Green. He’s a member of the Clotilda Descendants Association. Green’s ancestor was one of the Africans kidnapped and transported to the Mobile area before the Civil War aboard the slave ship Clotilda

The Alabama Public Radio news team was recently invited to take part in a public discussion on slavery in the state. I was joined on stage by William Green. He’s a member of the Clotilda Descendants Association.

The Alabama Public Radio news team was recently invited to take part in a public discussion on slavery in the state. News director Pat Duggins was joined on stage by William Green. He’s a member of the Clotilda Descendants Association.

APR News Director Pat Duggins will discuss the newsroom’s nine month investigation into preserving slave cemeteries in Alabama as part of a discussion about slavery in the state. The event takes place at the GulfQuest Maritime Museum in Mobile, tomorrow at 10 a.m.