The Alabama River in Monroe County, Alabama.
Water doesn’t just shape our landscape; it also shapes our lives. Learn how through Water/Ways, a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street (MoMS) program.
Dive inTraveling through five Alabama cities throughout 2021-2022, Water/Ways dives deep into the role that water plays in the everyday lives of Alabamians. That includes how water:
-Connects us to nature
-Sustains life as we know it
-Nurtures our cities and our culture
-Unites or divides people and communities
-Affects how we live, work, worship, create, and play
A view of the Moundville site on the Black Warrior River in central Alabama.
The Water/Ways Smithsonian exhibition will travel to five Alabama cities across 2021–2022, visiting Danville, Guntersville, Bessemer, Camden, and Elba. Choose when and where you quench your curiosity.
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A view of the Alabama River from a bridge in Claiborne, Alabama.
Explore the history, diversity, and value of Alabama’s waterways in this workshop designed especially for humanities teachers. Earn 11 hours of professional development credit.
Register nowThe Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street (MoMS) traveling exhibition, Crossroads: Change in Rural America, looks at remarkable 20th-century societal change and how rural Americans responded.
For more information about Museum on Main Street exhibitions and events, contact Laura Anderson at (205) 558-3992 or landerson@alabamahumanities.org.