National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

Education: to educate school age children (k-12), institutions of higher learning, and the general public of the National significance of the Underground Railroad and lessons learned from the Underground Railroad through guided tours, teacher workshops, educational outreach programs, scholarly lectures, public forums, first-person re-enactments, and digital/distance learning initiatives, including producing and distributing digital content nationwide.

Community: to form partnerships within the community with like purpose entities and to host community forums and partner programs that will benefit our constituents and further the mission of the Freedom Center. Partnerships with for-profit and non-profit entities enable the Freedom Center to expand the resources and the reach of its purpose, including the awareness of the six contemporary unfreedoms: racism, illiteracy, genocide, hunger, tyranny, and slavery.

Museum operation: to provide a positive conduit for the public dissemination on the impact of slavery and human trafficking within the united states. This is accomplished through the effective use of high-tech interactive permanent exhibitions, rotating traveling exhibitions, and a collection of owned and borrowed artifacts, including an authentic 19th century slave pen from mason county, Kentucky. The museum also features a full service genealogical library, a gift shop offering fair-trade international and domestic goods, a teacher resource and education Center, and multi-purpose classroom space.