In downtown Mobile, Alabama, this museum explores more than 300 years of the city’s Carnival and Mardi Gras traditions in the historic Bernstein-Bush mansion on Government Street. It presents Carnival as an enduring civic and social custom, tracing its development from early forms to modern celebration. Highlights include the Queen’s Gallery, with gowns, trains, jewels, and other attire associated with Carnival royalty and parading societies. The collections also preserve Mardi Gras art, posters, doubloons, tableau designs, and ball invitations that reveal how the festivities have been created and remembered over time. Interactive exhibits in the former carriage house connect this visual history to the experience of parade pageantry.