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| Mountain (next to Monte Sano) were the
foundation of the Burritt Museum and Park. The Museum
recorded 8,000 visitors its first year. Today the Burritt Museum features restored 19th Century log structures in its living history site, a rural church, a multipurpose building with a classroom, large meeting room, Museum Store and administrative offices, eight miles of nature trails, five acres of picnic areas, and heirloom gardens which supply produce for cooking demonstrations. In 1995, Burritt Museum & Park had record attendance and was named one of the top ten attractions in the state by the Alabama Bureau of Travel and Tourism. Over 120 volunteer members of the Burritt Guild work year round in the museum's mansion, store, and living history park. Living History interpreters dress in period clothing and recreate the diversity of 19th Century farm life. The Burritt Museum also sponsors Project Earthscope, an award-winning environmental education program for school children to study the earth and work with ecological issues. |
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| Different collections are rotated in the
Museum's Mansion. You're encouraged to come often to see
what's new in the exhibition rooms. The museum owns
several collections which are stored and not on displayed
all at one time. There are also many items that are
loaned that may be on display at one time or another.
Some of the Burritt's collections include: The Teaching Collection--Most of the items in the Historic Park and in educational programming are in this collection. The Burritt Estate--Personal artifacts of Dr. Burritt's include the mansion, the furnishings (tables, chairs, sofas, carpets), decorative art, and archives. Maria Howard Weeden Collection-Largest collection of this Huntsville-born romantic painter and poet who illustrated her own books, as well as other writers. |
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