We enjoyed going to the Parsonage museum. I went with my 8 year old daughter right after visiting the Rosa Parks museum. It was very interesting to hear about MLK's house being bombed while at the Rosa Parks museum and then go see the actual house that was bombed. The guide (which we arranged ahead of our trip) was very helpful in explaining what was there from MLK's time living there and what was donated but representative of that time period.
The overall experience was good. But the tour guide michelle needs a little bit more education, on what she's talking about. Even though she started in May of last year she needs to know more about the history . other than that, it was good!!
I did the whole tour back in December, 2012, but this time I came after it was closed in the evening and just walked around. It's a place of nearly religious value to me given that this was MLK's first job and he was thrust into the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Civil Rights movement soon after he moved here in 1954. The tour people do a good job. No pictures allowed in the house, unfortunately. Nice little gift shop and video. Just to walk in his steps made it all worth it.
Very inspirational and moving. A definite must see while visiting Montgomery. It was very authentic and educational.
We really enjoyed seeing the home of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. It was amazing to see the home as it would have been in the 1960's. Our tour guide did a great job of showing us the background as well as having had a personal connection to the home. Not only a historical experience but a spiritual one too
Our tour guide was great and gave a more detailed look at what happened with MLK and what happened when he lived in this house. We got to see inside his house that included a lot of the same furniture that was there when he still lived there. Good history.
Our guided tour was with a wonderful woman who was and still is a member of the congregation where Dr. M.L.King was the pastor. She was very knowledgeable and interesting. She made history come alive.
You step in this home and it just takes you back. You can feel his presence, almost like he never left. I love the way that they tried to keep everything the way that him and his wife most likely had everything.Michelle our guide that we had was absolutely amazing. When telling us everything, she explain what was Authentic and what was actually just a "replica" from that Era. To me this made a difference that she shared this info with us.
So much history in one place. You can almost here Martin Luther King Jr. speaking. One stop on the Civil Rights trail you have to make.
We had a personal tour of the parsonage by a museum employee on a slow December day. Seeing his desk...with Gandhi's picture on the wall said it all. Going up the front steps you see the indentation where the bomb hit...with 10 day old Yolanda King in the house with her mother.