On opening day at the Legacy Museum in downtown Montgomery, Ala., visitors were not told to silence their cell phones, but rather to power them off and put them away. “Take in your experience, take in your experience,” one museum staff member said.
He kept repeating the exhortation as throngs of visitors entered the lobby. In a high-ceilinged room with photo displays, wall text, and three video screens, the most compelling visual was a single sentence painted in white on an exposed brick wall: “You are standing on a site where enslaved people were warehoused.”
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