Webb Military Museum

The Webb Military Museum features military artifacts from the American Civil War to Desert Storm. Original uniforms, headgear, and equipment are displayed in a walk-through setting. The museum honors our servicemen from all wars and branches. Many of the displays contain named groupings of servicemen highlighting their stories of service. A visit to Webb Military Museum will certainly bring back one’s love of history and the realization of how much we owe to our men and women in uniform.

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American Prohibition Museum

The United States was supposedly completely “dry” during the early 20th century in the period, what most referred to as “Prohibition”! Fortunately, or unfortunately, this created an underground industry where the production of illicit alcohol flourished. At the Savannah American Prohibition Museum you will be able to learn the circumstances behind the 18th Amendment, and how it led to the rise of smuggling and production of moonshine. You will be able to view in excess of over 200 historical exhibits involving the distilling equipment, and other propaganda. As we all know “Prohibition” eventually did not survive, and cartoonists had a field day depicting the amount of alcohol freely available, despite prohibition. You will also experience a Speakeasy bar where you may purchase “period authentic” cocktails to truly experience the prohibition period.

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Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum

Ships of the Sea Museum features nine galleries of ship models, maritime paintings and artifacts. The vast majority of ship models were commissioned by the Museum to interpret the rich story of Savannah's maritime history. The collection of models includes colonial vessels, ironclads, ocean-going steamers, and modern navy ships. Amongst the highlights on display are models of: “The Titanic”. Built at the Harland and Wolf shipyard Belfast, Ireland, in 1909-12 for the White Star Line, a British company owned by the American tycoon, J.P. Morgan. On her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, the ship struck an iceberg and sank in just over two hours. “The Anne”, which in the fall of 1732, sailed to America carrying the first 114 colonists - some forty families - to the new colony of Georgia. “The Wanderer” involved in the illegal slave trade, landed four hundred slaves on Jekyll Island, Georgia, in 1858. “City Of Savannah” an iron-hulled vessel, was the first steam-powered vessel in the United States. She was partly powered by sail and partly by steam.

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National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force

A breathtaking avenue sheltered by live oaks and Spanish moss leads to the tabby ruins of Wormsloe, the colonial estate of Noble Jones (1702–1775). Jones was a humble carpenter who arrived in Georgia in 1733 with James Oglethorpe and the first group of settlers from England. Wormsloe's tabby ruin is the oldest standing structure in Savannah. At this site, you may interact with costumed interpreters during programs and events, and view a museum with artifacts unearthed at Wormsloe, as well as a short film about the site and the founding of Georgia. The interpretive nature trail leads past the tabby ruins along the marsh to the Colonial Life Area.

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Old Fort Jackson Museum

U.S. President Thomas Jefferson authorized the construction of a national defense system of fortifications to defend his new nation. Jefferson's system included Fort Jackson, constructed between 1808 and 1812 over an old earthen battery from the American Revolution. At the time, war with Great Britain or France seemed likely, and Fort Jackson was the best site from which to protect Savannah from attack by sea. Fort James Jackson (usually called Old Fort Jackson, or shortened to Fort Jackson) is a must-see, restored 19th-century fort located on the Savannah River. It is Georgia's oldest standing brick fort. The site offers exciting interactive programs about life as a soldier. Guests can also learn various drills, and forms of military communication previously used, and watch a cannon demonstration using some of the oldest artillery in the Southeast.

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Civil Rights Museum

The Civil Rights Museum chronicles the civil rights struggle of Georgia's oldest African-American community from slavery to the present. The museum features three floors of various historic photographic exhibits, artifacts and manuscripts synonymous with oppression and slavery. The museum also contains some interactive exhibits providing a glimpse of what life was like during the civil rights struggle in Savannah, and in Georgia. The building which houses the museum has also played an important part in Savannah’s African-American history. Built in 1914 by Robert Pharrow, an African-American contractor from Atlanta, the building was home at one point to the Wage Earners Savings and Loan Bank, once the largest bank for blacks, in this county.

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