SEEK Museum

In Russellville, the SEEK Museum brings Kentucky’s ongoing fight for emancipation and equality to life. Spread across five historic buildings in the National Register Historic District, this immersive experience tells the powerful stories of African Americans in southern Kentucky—from slavery to civil rights. Walk through an urban plantation, step inside attic slave quarters, and visit a Rosenwald school and Civil Rights Trail house. Exhibits highlight figures like Alice Dunnigan, the first Black woman to attend presidential press briefings, and Richard Bibb, a Revolutionary War major who owned and freed enslaved people in the 1830s.

Accessibility: Five of the museum buildings are ADA-accessible. Contact the museum in advance to arrange seating for those who need it.