Muhammad Ali Center

Overview

The Muhammad Ali Center is a multicultural center with an award-winning museum dedicated to the life and legacy of Muhammad Ali. The Center's museum experience captures the inspiration derived from the story of Muhammad Ali’s incredible life and legacy through the six core principles that fueled his journey: Confidence, Conviction, Dedication, Giving, Respect and Spirituality. Through dramatic multimedia presentations, interactive exhibits, historical video, countless images, and artifacts, visitors will learn about Muhammad Ali and his significant impact on the world: how he obtained greatness and then used it as a catalyst to do great things for the world and, in turn, inspire others to do the same. Visitors will learn more about Muhammad’s Louisville roots, the evolution of his boxing career, his place in the world as a cultural icon, and his immense humanitarian accomplishments that truly made him The Greatest of All Time. The Muhammad Ali Center has been part of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail since early 2020.

Growing up in the segregated south, Muhammad Ali found boxing at age twelve and shortly after, he experienced an “awakening” that led him on a life-long path to seriously consider the realities of racial tensions in America and the effects of segregation and integration. At a very young age, Muhammad made a conscious decision to use boxing as a platform for social justice and peacemaking on a global basis. Muhammad Ali utilized this platform throughout his life to fight “a different kind of fight” that continued until his passing in June, 2016.

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