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A re-creation of Martin Luther King Jr.'s library is on the first floor of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights Tuesday, June 10, 2014, in Atlanta. The center opens June 23 after almost 10 years of preparations and tells a story broader than the American civil rights movement, linking that movement to the international current of human rights reform that took inspiration in Atlanta. David Tulis / AJC Special

Credit: David Tulis

Credit: David Tulis

A re-creation of Martin Luther King Jr.'s library is on the first floor of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights Tuesday, June 10, 2014, in Atlanta. The center opens June 23 after almost 10 years of preparations and tells a story broader than the American civil rights movement, linking that movement to the international current of human rights reform that took inspiration in Atlanta. David Tulis / AJC Special
By Bo Emerson
June 20, 2014

All tours at the Atlanta Civil Rights museum are self-guided and will take visitors to any or all of three galleries.

Outside of the Martin Luther King Jr. collection, the center is not a repository of artifacts. Instead it is what exhibit designer David Mandel calls "experiential."

The museum housed in an elegantly curved structure with a moss lawn for a roof, offers visitors a history of the freedom movement in the United States, told from Atlanta's perspective, and an accounting of the modern human rights activism that civil rights pioneers inspired.

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