The Legacy Museum, African-American history museum in Montgomery, United States

The Legacy Museum occupies a 47,000-square-foot building on the site where enslaved people were once warehoused in Montgomery. Its pale brick facade, two stories high with a flat roofline, holds nine square windows displaying illuminated photographs, with dark glass double doors at the center. Inside, galleries trace slavery, lynching, segregation and mass incarceration.

The Equal Justice Initiative opened the museum on April 26, 2018, in an 11,000-square-foot building at 400 N. Court St. It moved on October 1, 2021, to a 47,000-square-foot site where enslaved people had been warehoused, roughly five times the original space. The museum and the nearby lynching memorial cost about $20 million, raised from private donations and charitable foundations.

The museum's name comes from its focus on the legacy of slavery in the present, not only the past. Its 2021 home is a site where enslaved people were once warehoused. Inside, first-person accounts of slavery and auctions are heard through narration and voiceovers, and a voting test exhibit reproduces questions Black Americans faced before voting.

The museum reopened on 1 October 2021 at a site where enslaved people were once warehoused, roughly five times the size of the original 11,000-square-foot location on N. Court Street. A single $5.00 ticket covers both the museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. The former site ran at about 80% capacity, so arriving early helps.

The exhibitions connect historical practices of enslavement with current social questions through recorded statements, objects, and data. Visitors see soil samples from documented sites of extrajudicial killings across the United States, preserved in glass containers.