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A Brief Introduction to the Legacy Museum: Home

Welcome

Welcome to the Legacy Museum LibGuide! The Legacy Museum is a Bioethics and Visual Arts Museum. 

“The LEGACY MUSEUM is an outgrowth of the Official Proclamation by President William Jefferson Clinton against the misdeeds of the United States Public Health Service in its Untreated Syphilis Study in the Negro Male in Macon County, Alabama, 1932-1972.”

  • Opened April 2009. 
  • Created to honor the 599 participants of the United States Public Health Service Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male in Macon County, Alabama (1932-1972). 
  • Designed with two floors of exhibition space (nearly 9,000 square feet). 
  • Treasured Tuskegee University historical moments in public health, science, medicine, and the visual arts collection are highlighted in exhibitions and displays. 

Bioethics

  • What is Bioethics?
  • Why is Bioethics important and how has it impacted society? 
  • How does Bioethics impact your life and why should you care?