The American Prohibition Museum, located in Savannah’s City Market, is the first and only museum in the United States dedicated to the history of Prohibition. While here, guests will travel back in time to the early 1900s as anti-alcohol rallies swept the nation and the “booze problem” was pushed to the forefront of American politics. The true story of America’s struggle with the liquor question, the passing of the 18th Amendment, its impact on the nation, and the far-reaching consequences of the thirteen years of Prohibition all come to life within the walls of the American Prohibition Museum. Through immersive displays and state-of-the-art dioramas, museum goers will learn how Prohibition and Temperance shaped thinking and culture for more than two hundred years of American history.
Not your average “Dry” Museum, the American Prohibition Museum features state-of-the-art displays such as a recreated 1918 Street Scene, setting the stage in “Anywhere, USA.” As visitors continue through the museum, they will encounter fire and brimstone preacher, Reverend Billy Sunday, delivering one of his heated sermons at a captivating Tent Revival. Further along is Carry Nation, just completing a Hatchetation in a bar that has been demolished by her signature hatchet Nearby, Lillian M.N. Stevens and Adolphus Busch square off and plead their sides of the liquor question. Museum guests will stumble into a dimly lit moonshine scene, tucked back into the heart of America’s wilderness before exploring the Roaring 20s, complete with gangsters, tommy guns, flappers, and the Charleston.
Guests to the museum will have the opportunity to relive the intoxicating history of Temperance and Prohibition from the “Alcohol Argument” between the Wets and the Drys to the Unintended Consequences of the 18th Amendment. At every turn, museum visitors will be in immersed in history through beautiful, restored Prohibition era vehicles, more than 200 historic artifacts, captivating dioramas and hi-tech immersive displays, costumed docents, and larger-than-life scale colorized photo murals from the time period.
Before stepping out the backdoor of the museum into modern day Savannah, guests will pop in Congress Street Up, the speakeasy. During the day, the speakeasy is part of the museum experience, but on Friday and Saturday nights after dark, Congress Street Up comes alive with craft cocktails straight out of the Prohibition era. The fun does not stop there. Congress Street Up also offers both cocktail classes Monday through Saturday and whiskey tasting classes every Tuesday night for the bootlegger in all of us.
209 W. St. Julian Street · (912) 344-9243
www.AmericanProhibitionMuseum.com
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