American Giants Museum

About this museum

The American Giants Museum in Atlanta, Georgia takes its name and its mission from a category of American history that has long deserved more sustained attention: the extraordinary African American athletes who competed in the Negro Leagues during the era of segregation and produced some of the finest baseball ever played in this country, largely invisible to the mainstream press of their time. Located at 100 Southwest Arch Street, the museum honors these men and their legacy in a city that carries its own deep relationship with both baseball history and the long struggle for civil rights.The story of the Negro Leagues is, at bottom, a story about what America chose to exclude and what it therefore never fully saw. Players like Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell, Oscar Charleston, and dozens of others competed at a level that players in the white major leagues often privately acknowledged as comparable or superior - and yet they were systematically excluded from the institution that claimed to represent the national pastime. Their statistics were not widely tracked. Their championships were not celebrated in the mainstream press. Their careers were compressed by a system that denied them both recognition and the financial rewards that recognition brings.The American Giants Museum works to restore the full picture, presenting the statistics, the stories, the photographs, and the personal histories of players who deserve to be remembered on their own terms - not only as a prologue to Jackie Robinson's integration of the major leagues, but as the center of a rich and competitive baseball world that existed in parallel with the segregated game.The museum holds a 4.7 - star rating, a sign that visitors who find their way here leave with something meaningful and lasting. Admission is free. Atlanta's broader cultural landscape - home to the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, and the APEX Museum - makes it one of America's premier cities for exploring African American history, and the American Giants Museum belongs in that constellation. Visit americangiantsmuseum.com for current hours and programming.