Juneteenth Free Family Day

Name: Juneteenth Free Family Day
Start: 2026-06-13T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-13T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Telfair Museums (Telfair Academy)

Schedule

Sat Jun 13 2026 at 10:00 am to 05:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Telfair Museums (Telfair Academy) | Savannah, GA

Join us for our 19th year of Juneteenth celebrations! Local residents* enjoy free admission to the Telfair Academy and the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters.
Free admission at the two sites from 10am to 5pm. Festivities kick off at 1pm with a "libation ceremony" by Dr. Jamal Toure, who will once again channel the African Spirit on the front steps of the Jepson Center.
Enjoy activities at the Telfair Academy inspired by the new exhibition Roots in the Rushes: African American Basketry of the Lowcountry, as well as storytelling by Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah Geechee Nation, basket-making demonstrations by Gregory Grant, Anastasia Ketchen, and others, as well as a "basket dance" by the Esther F. Garrison School for the Arts.
At the Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters, tours offered will be abbreviated and run from 10am to 5pm (the last tour of the day will begin at 4pm). These specialized tours will explore Savannah through the lens of Black craftmanship, revealing how enslaved and free African Americans built and sustained the city’s physical and cultural landscape.
*Savannah area residents of Chatham, Effingham, Bryan, Liberty, Bulloch, Jasper, and Beaufort Counties enjoy free admission all day at the Telfair Academy and the Owens Thomas House & Slave Quarters. This program is made possible thanks to investment by the City of Savannah and by the Americana Foundation.