Guntersville Museum & Cultural Center
1215 Rayburn Ave.

Thursday - Saturday: 10am-4pm
Sunday: Noon-4pm

For the Will Rogers Heritage Festival the Museum is adding a special Exhibit from the Will Rogers Museum in Claremore, Oklahoma. This will include several wonderful pieces of their collection, including his famous cowboy boots, a riata, some of his most famous photographs, and drawings and quotes of the famous humorist.
 

The Museum is located in the newly-renovated 1936 Guntersville Armory building (a National Register of Historic Places site) at 1215 Rayburn Avenue (between the Guntersville Library and The Whole Backstage (another National Historic site and our Regional Theater) in the old Guntersville Heritage Park. The Museum is built of local rough limestone in a “Castle-like” architectural design on a hillside, with surrounding limestone walls like a moat, giving our Museum a commanding presence. The building alone is worth a visit!

Guntersville Museum and Cultural Center is the active interpretive repository of the cultural and historical local people of interest, archeological artifacts, archives, and artistic media of the Lake Guntersville area within the Tennessee River Basin in North Alabama.

Over the past 15 years, the Museum has amassed interesting and historically significant artifacts and important artwork. Some of our most important permanent Collections include the extensive Percy Barnard Native American artifact collection of over 4,000 mint-condition items (from the local Honeycomb area), The River (impact of the Tennessee River and the history of the construction of the Guntersville Dam) and The Early Days of Guntersville Exhibit, the Ray and Mozelle Glass Gemstone and Mineral Collection, John Allen Wyeth historical collection of retrospective artifacts (one of our most famous native sons), the famous Alabama author William Bradford Huie’s memorabilia, and our popular Will Rogers Exhibit (Guntersville’s founding Father, John Gunter and his Cherokee wife, Catherine, were the great-grandparents of the famous American humorist).