Guntersville Museum - Guntersville, AL - History Museums on Waymarking.com

The Guntersville Museum contains:

Exhibits documenting both local history and the more recent past. Displays range from “Mississippi Bill” Harris’s 12-foot fishing boat that conquered thousands of river miles, to exhibits detailing life in the 1800s. And archival photos that provide a view of Guntersville before and during construction of the TVA dam that created almost a thousand miles of mountain-lakes shoreline.

The Native American exhibit – the Percy Barnard Collection – is augmented by other locally- and regionally-collected artifacts dating to the Paleo-Indian era.

The museum is home to a permanent collection of work by nationally-acclaimed local artist Frank Nelson.

A part of the Natural History collection, is a display of mostly native birds collected and mounted by the late Bessie Rayburn Samuel in the 1920s. Bessie actually taught herself taxidermy, and this unique display was a resource for the state’s first book on ornithology.

Theme: Natural and Cultural History. Street Address: 1215 Rayburn Avenue Guntersville, AL 35976 Food Court: no Hours of Operation: Tuesday-Friday: 10 a.m.– 4 p.m. Saturday & Sunday: 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Closed Mondays Cost: 0.00 (listed in local currency) Museum Size: Small Relevant Web Site: [Web Link] Gift Shop: Not Listed

Visit Instructions:
In order to log this waymark in this category, you must be able to provide proof of your visit. Please post a picture of yourself or your GPSr in front some identifiable feature or point of interest either in the museum, or on the museum grounds.

Recent Visits/Logs:

There are no logs for this waymark yet.