Museum Hours of Operation

Tuesday-Friday: 9 am to 5 pm
Saturday: 10 am to 4 pm
Sunday: open for special events and by request
Mondays: Closed

Museum Tour Times

Tuesday-Friday
9:30 am, 10:30 am, 11:30 am
1:00 pm, 2:00 pm, 3:00 pm,
4:00 pm

Saturday
10:30 am, 11:30 am
1:00 pm, 2:00 pm, 3:00 pm

Fees: Adults $5 Seniors $3 Children $2

Group tours with 20 people or more must be booked in advance. Call 706.724.3576.

Dr. Louise A. Rice Exhibition
May 1 – 31, 2013
details»

2013 Summer Camps
May 27 - 31
June 3 - 7
details»

Senior Luncheon with Guest Speaker Richmond County Solicitor General, Kellie Kenner McIntyre
June 12, 2013, 11:30am - 1:00pm
details»

Georgia Regents University's Health Care Initiative with Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History
June 15, 2013
details»

     

Membership Information
As a privately funded nonprofit institution, The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History relies on the generosity of its friends and supporters to meet the enormous cost of providing quality programs and services, year-round, to thousands of local, national and international visitors. Your membership will provide you with a full-range of exciting benefits and your support helps the museum keep the legacy of Ms. Lucy Craft Laney alive! The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History is a non-profit 501c(3) organization. All contributions are tax deductible within the extent of the law

Friend Membership: $25
:: Free admission for one person for one year or Invitations to Exhibition previews or Special Event.
:: Subscription to the Museum’s comprehensive quarterly newsletter.
:: Recognition in the annual Friends of the Museum (F.O.M.) Membership    Directory

Dual/Family Membership: $50 
All Friend Benefits plus:
Free admission for an additional adult (total of 2 FREE Adult Admissions)
and FREE admission for dependent children.

Sponsor Membership: $100
All Dual Family Benefits plus:
Ten percent (10%) discount on lectures and workshops excluding special events and Four (4) additional Guest Passes.

Supporter Membership: $250 
All Sponsor Benefits plus:
Invitation to special VIP events and One (1) FREE copy of Lucy Craft Laney Poster or Video.

Patron Membership: $500 
All Supporter Benefits plus:
Additional fifteen (15%) percent discount on lectures and workshops for a total
discount of twenty-five (25%) percent plus a FREE copy of Lucy Craft Laney Poster AND Video.

Sustainer Membership: $1000
All Patron Benefits plus:
One (1) FREE Rental of Museum and Commemorative Brick in the Lucy Craft Laney Period Garden.

Please Join!

» Click Here to download, print, fill out and mail Form to museum   

» Click Here to use our on-line Membership Form  

---

The Purpose of Education
"...It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.

Education must also train one for quick, resolute and effective thinking. To think incisively and to think for one's self is very difficult. We are prone to let our mental life become invaded by legions of half truths, prejudices, and propaganda. At this point, I often wonder whether or not education is fulfilling its purpose. A great majority of the so-called educated people do not think logically and scientifically. Even the press, the classroom, the platform, and the pulpit in many instances do not give us objective and unbiased truths. To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals..."

Dr. Martin Luther King