Museum and education institute

Philanthropy , Public Foundations

Youth services: the institue is regularly visited by local school groups and residents from the local area. Over 12,000 school age residents from alabama visited the institute during 2016. Over 300 youth have participated in the institute's award winning after school program, birmingham cultural alliance partnership (bcap). exhibits: the institute is a place for heritage tourism and a center for community engagement. The permanent exhibit has been visited by over 2 million visitors since the institute opened in 1992. The institute has two changing exhibit galleries that highlight human right issues of the current time period. Visitors have access to all of the galleries duirng their paid tours. Overall attendance for the institute exceeds 140,000 annually. outreach: to provide free educational programs to k-12 students that introduce and explore the lessons of the civil rights movement. Most of bcri's outreach programs were held at the institute or at shcools in jefferson county. Nearly 1,400 youth and parents have participated in bcri's after school and literacy programs. This includes both on and off-site acivities.