Imagining Freedom Program offered at the RMSC

Rochester Museum and Science Center's Imagining Freedom February Break Week programs offers visitors a chance to touch history and "meet" innovators who imagined new freedoms for all Americans.

Each day during that week, February 17-21, at 2 p.m. the RMSC Players will present one of several vignettes introducing the visionaries who dreamed a new future and then launched efforts to bring it about. "Underground Railroad Tales" demonstrates the dangerous and courageous journey of an enslaved African making his way to freedom on the Underground Railroad. "The Road to Freedom Runs through Rochester" brings together four of Rochester's best-known freedom fighters -- Austin Steward, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony -- as they share the dreams and challenges of their life's work.

Imagining Freedom also offers visitors the opportunity to touch and examine reproductions of actual documents and photographs from the RMSC's permanent collections concerning the abolitionist and women's rights movements.

All special Imagining Freedom February Break Week activities are free with museum admission and are part of the celebration of the 2003 Year of Frederick Douglass designated by the Rochester-Monroe County Freedom Trail Commission. The museum is located at 657 East Avenue, Rochester.