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Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum receives grant to create new mobile app

The new app will make much of the current content in the media area on the second floor of the Children's Wing an interactive experience for visitors.

The new app will make much of the current content in the media area on the second floor of the Children's Wing an interactive experience for visitors.

A grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services will enable Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum to create a mobile app that will engage its visitors, especially the large numbers of school children who tour the museum each year on field trips.

The museum was awarded $50,000 through the IMLS’s Inspire! Grant for Small…

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Daniel Foundation grant will aid in technology upgrades at TROY’s Rosa Parks Museum

As a part of the project, the video reenactment of the scene on the Montgomery bus that led to Mrs. Parks' arrest is being reproduced.

As a part of the project, the video reenactment of the scene on the Montgomery bus that led to Mrs. Parks' arrest is being reproduced.

Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum and Children’s Wing will soon undergo a technology upgrade thanks in part to a $150,000 grant from the Daniel Foundation of Alabama.

The project that is expected to take approximately a year will convert all current analog technology to digital, high-definition and marks the first major upgrade of the Museum…

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Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum to celebrate Mrs. Parks’ birthday on Feb. 4

The Rosa Parks Museum will celebrate what would have been Mrs. Parks' 110th birthday on Feb. 4.

The Rosa Parks Museum will celebrate what would have been Mrs. Parks' 110th birthday on Feb. 4.

Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum will celebrate what would have been the Civil Rights icon’s 110th birthday on Feb. 4 with free admission to the museum and Children’s Wing from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and activities throughout the day.

The 1950s-era Montgomery City Bus will be onsite and available for viewing from noon to…

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Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum seeks to engage visitors with interactive app

The interactive app will feature a virtual Rosa Parks and other unsung figures of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The interactive app will feature a virtual Rosa Parks and other unsung figures of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum is working to create a mobile app that will engage its visitors, especially young people.

The Museum is teaming up with QuantumERA, LLC, an immersive solutions company, to create the “Rosa Parks and the Women who Made the Movement” mobile application, which will feature a virtual Rosa Parks and other…

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