Museum + Old Town Trolley Tour
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American Prohibition Museum
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All aboard Savannah’s Best Tour! Experience over 270 years of history as the expert tour conductors relate the stories, sights and landmarks of Georgia’s First City! Join them as they turn back the pages of time and relive the rich legacy of a charming and alluring southern town.
Hop aboard one of our trolleys and you’ll experience Transportainment®, a delightful combination of transportation and entertainment.
And after your tour, see The American Prohibition Museum. Located in Savannah’s popular City Market, the American Prohibition Museum is the first and only museum in the United States dedicated to the history of Prohibition. Highlighting an era of gangsters, rum runners, and flappers, the museum brings the Roaring Twenties to life with over 20 intoxicating exhibits and an authentic speakeasy. Featuring 21st century technology and immersive displays, the museum takes guests on a journey through the past to the early 1900s when anti-alcohol rallies swept the nation and America’s struggle with alcohol was brought to light.
- 1 day of free unlimited re-boarding and fully narrated, 90+ minute tour of Savannah
- Sightseeing at over 100 points of interest
- “On and Off” privileges at 16 conveniently located stops throughout the city
- Live narrated, 90-minute tour
- Open-air sightseeing perfect for taking pictures
- 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
- Winner of 2020 International Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice ‘Best of the Best’ Award
- Not Your Average “Dry” Museum – step back in time to a wild era of flappers, bootlegging, and gangsters
- Learn the history behind the iconic V8 and how it led to the birth of NASCAR
- Explore the stories of Al Capone, Scarface, and the other historical gangsters of Prohibition
- View confiscated items from mobsters and 200+ Prohibition-Era artifacts
- Discover why Savannah was referred to as the “Bootleg Spigot of the South
- Slip into our Speakeasy to enjoy authentic craft cocktails
- Zagat rated Congress Street Up Speakeasy “One Of The Hottest Bars In Savannah
Savannah Old Town Trolley Tours
The extraordinary architecture, lush botanicals, and captivating stories of this historic, coastal city make for an unforgettable vacation experience. For over 30 years, Old Town Trolley Tours has provided sightseeing tours highlighting the best attractions in Savannah. Hop aboard one of our trolleys and you’ll experience Transportainment®, a delightful combination of transportation and entertainment. Our friendly conductors narrate the tour with a fascinating and fun mix of trivia and humorous stories. It will be our pleasure to guide you through “Georgia’s First City” on one of our orange and green trolleys.
Our Savannah tours are the best way to see the city. Because we cover the entire city, you can avoid costly parking and city driving. We also encourage you to tour at your own pace. Our tour offers on and off privileges, which allows you to hop off the trolley and explore on your own at any time. With frequent pickups at all our stops, this helps you avoid walking long distances.
The American Prohibition Museum
Located in Savannah’s City Market, it is the first and only one of its kind in the United States. While here, guests will have the opportunity to experience life in America through the earliest rumblings of Temperance through the unintended consequences that the 13 years of Prohibition caused.
The Museum offers state-of-the-art exhibits, immersive dioramas, rare historic memorabilia and artifacts, and even a ‘Speakeasy’. It will cover the time period from when Georgia went dry in 1907 until Prohibition’s national repeal in 1933.
Through immersive displays and state-of-the-art dioramas, Museum goers will learn how Prohibition and Temperance shaped thinking and culture for more than 200 years of American history.
Exhibits displaying multiple dioramas allow guests to journey through time and walk into historical scenes such as:
- Spirited America: A History of Drinking in the United States
- Wets vs. Dries: Prohibition through the Centuries
- The Fury of Temperance
- Hatchetations! Carry Nation’s Axe-Wielding War on Saloons
- Last Call for Alcohol – The 18th Amendment Bars the Bars
Experience a one-of-a-kind attraction when you visit Savannah!
1. Old Savannah Distillery
2. Franklin Square
3. Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace
4. Madison Square
5. Forsyth Park
6. Taylor Square
7. Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum
8. Visitors Center
9. Old Town Trolley Welcome Center
10. City Market
11. Christ Church Parish House
12. River Street
13. River Street Market Place
14. Morrell Park/Waving Girl Statue
15. Davenport House
16. Cathedral of St. John The Baptist
Booth Locations
Near Trolley Stops
Stop 1 – Visitors Center
301 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.
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Stop 2 – Savannah Welcome Center
214 West Boundary St.
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Stop 3 – Franklin Square
23 Montgomery St.
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Stop 8
234 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
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Stop 8
250 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.
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Stop 9 – City Market
217 West Julian Street
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Stop 11 – Simply Savannah
301 East River St.
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Not Near Stops
River Street
211 W. River St.
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Plant Riverside – JW Marriott
500 W. River St.
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Tubby’s – Broken Keel/River Street Inn
115 East River St.
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River Landing
1 International Drive
Hutchinson Island (Ferry Stop)
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Hotels
Hyatt Regency
2 W. Bay St.
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Marriott Riverfront
100 General Macintosh Blvd.
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Andaz
14 Barnard St.
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Cotton Sail
126 W Bay St.
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Old Town Trolley Tours
Daily
Tour length: 90 minutes.
9am to 5pm.
Tours depart approx. every 20 minutes.
Closed Saint Patrick’s Day, March 17.
Reservations are NOT needed or accepted.
The American Prohibition Museum
Duration:
1 hour
Location:
209 West Saint Julian Street, Savannah GA 31401
The American Prohibition Museum is located within City Market of Downtown Savannah between Franklin Square and Ellis Square on Saint Julian Street. It is three blocks south from Bay Street and two blocks north from Broughton Street.
Parking:
Metered parking is available on street.
Age Requirements:
Guests of all ages are allowed in the museum during all operating hours, but valid photo ID is required at the door for guests 21 and over to purchase cocktails in the Speakeasy from Monday to Saturday.
Reservation Notes:
Reservations are NOT needed or accepted.
*Please note our Speakeasy is not open on Sundays. Attraction tickets do not have to be used on the same day.