Southern Environmental Center

Southern Environmental Center The Southern Environmental Center is the largest educational facility of its kind in Alabama, and is

The Southern Environmental Center (SEC) at Birmingham-Southern College is both a destination and a source for urban sustainability activity throughout the region. The Center’s Interactive Museum on campus hosts 20,000 visitors every year, sponsors statewide conferences, and provides convening space for area environmental groups and urban associations. The SEC’s Interactive Museum and Conference Ce

nter is our base of operations for broad programming in sustainability education, urban eco-planning, research, and green space development. The Southern Environmental Center’s Interactive Museum is the only museum of its kind in the nation: an interactive sustainability museum built from recycled materials and constructed inside a repurposed college swimming pool. The Southern Environmental Center’s Interactive Museum is a 52,000 square foot exhibition and meeting space housed inside the old natatorium on the campus of Birmingham-Southern College.

06/05/2026
These kids turned some heads at Avondale Park today. We studied tree diversity, watched a green heron catch a fish, and ...
04/22/2026

These kids turned some heads at Avondale Park today. We studied tree diversity, watched a green heron catch a fish, and reconnected kids with nature.

04/22/2026

Dupuy Alternative School students sporting recycled CD earrings as part of Earth Week! 🌎

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900 Arkadelphia Road
Birmingham, AL
35254

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Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

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