By Associated Press
Montgomery, AL – Alabama state archives director Ed Bridges says the archives staff and foundation board members have raised more than $4 million for a Museum of Alabama.
Bridges says the museum will be housed in the Alabama archives building across the street from the Capitol. He says about $4 million more is needed, and the goal is to raise it by the end of the year.
The archives already displays choice items from Alabama's past, such as the silver earrings worn by the Seminole chief Osceola when an artist painted his likeness in the 1830s.
But Bridges says the collections don't tell a unified, narrative story that people can follow.
He says the planned museum will feature images and recordings of Alabamians telling their stories themselves.