We incorporate every genre of music as well as every area of the field of music in our museum, honoring music achievers from the great state of Alabama. Music actually got its start right here in Alabama with some of the greatest, most well known singers, songwriters, bands, producers, managers and recording studio's all having strong ties to Alabama.

FAME Music was established in 1959 in Florence, Alabama and has gone on to be the heartbeat of the Muscle Shoals Sound with entities including FAME Publishing, FAME Recording Studios, FAME Records and Muscle Shoals Records. FAME moved to Muscle Shoals in 1961. FAME has worked in the studio with some of the Greatest artists in Rock music history. Artists such as Aretha Franklin, Little Richard, Wilson Pickett, Etta James, Otis Redding, the Osmonds, Jerry Reed, Alabama, Mac Davis, the Gatlin Brothers, Bobbie Gentry and many others.


More recently FAME has recorded projects for The Gregg Allman Band, Demi Lovato, Steven Tyler, Alan Jackson, Ann Wilson, The Revivalists, Turnpike Trobadours, Third Day, Michael McDonald, Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, Aloe Blacc, Chord Overstreet, Keb Mo, John Paul White, St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Matisyahu, Band of Horses, Drive by Truckers, Bettye Lavette, Cyril Neville, the Civil Wars, Anderson East and Jamey Johnson to name a few.


In the last 50 plus years, FAME has been involved in recording or publishing records that have sold over 350 million copies world wide.

FAME Publishing has had songs cut by Tina Turner, Gary Allan, the Beatles, Jet, Elton John, Sara Evans, Ronnie Milsap, BB King, Tim McGraw, Janis Joplin, the Dixie Chicks, All 4 One, Earl Thomas Conley, Leann Rimes, Huey Lewis, Martina McBride, Travis Tritt, Zac Brown Band and many more.

The large earthen mound known as the Florence Indian Mound was the heart of a large prehistoric cultural center that dominated this section of the Tennessee River Valley thousands of years ago. Walk up the mound to reflect on those that lived and celebrated on this important high ground. Visit the museum to see the collection of American Indian relics found in area, with chronological displays and explanations of artifacts from Paleo to Historic periods. This site is very important  to numerous Southeastern indigenous  tribes  who assert an ancestral connection with those who built and occupied Alabama’s ancient mounds

An American architectural treasure, this house was built for newlyweds Stanley and Mildred Rosenbaum of Florence, Alabama, in 1939. The house is the only structure designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the state of Alabama, and one of the only such houses in the southeast that is open to the public. Wright's Usonian design (named for the United State of America) was offered as a low-cost home for middle income families. This house sits on a two-acre lot, very near downtown Florence and facing the Tennessee River. This treasure, meticulously preserved, is now a museum, open to the public .

Helen Keller's Birthplace was build in 1820 by Helen's grandfather David Keller, the main house is of Virginia cottage construction. The school house that Annie Sullivan took Helen away from her parents still remain next to the main house and the water pump where she learned her first word water in located in the back yard. Much of the Keller furniture still remains in the home. As guest arrive they will be given a guided tour by one of the docents . The average guest spends about 45 mins touring the home and beautiful grounds.