The inspiring new Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center immerses visitors in the story and heroics of one of the most famous figures of the slavery resistance movement in the United States. While Harriet Tubman has significant name recognition, little is generally known about the details of her life. Through a successful collaboration of architecture and exhibit design, the Tubman Visitor Center provides guests with the most historically accurate information available regarding Tubman and the Underground Railroad.
Located in Dorchester County, Md., the site of the 15,000-square-foot Visitor Center is within a few miles of where Tubman lived, worked, and worshipped and from where she led others to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. The center is managed through a partnership between the Maryland Park Service and National Park Service.