Fifty-five years to the day after the riot that launched the modern gay rights movement, a group called Pride Live celebrated the official opening of a visitor center in the room where it happened, once part of the Stonewall Inn, featuring entertainment by Sir Elton John, Cynthia Erivo, Adam Lambert, and Johnny Manuel joined by Sing Harlem, and an official welcome by President Joe Biden.

The next day — today — the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center opened for free to the public. Below is a quick glimpse of the center,  2,100 square feet that includes a gift shop and a “dedicated theater space” at the rear, which right now is showing a brief un-narrated video of the construction of the center. The center promises a calendar of events, including tours, lecture series, and temporary exhibitions. What’s on offer at its opening is largely a series of history panels, with some cool interactive touches.

The visitor center at 51 Christopher Street in Greenwich Village is part of the Stonewall National Monument, which President Barack Obama designated in 2016, and includes the still-functioning bar the Stonewall Inn next door, and a park across the street, Christopher Park, which is run by the National Park Service, and features “Gay Liberation,” a sculpture by George Segal that was placed in the park in 1992.

You can click on these panels to see them enlarged

Books that visitors can write in, and read what other visitors have to say.

There is also a jukebox (the same model that was at the Stonewall Inn) that features songs “curated” by DJ Honey Dijon — in another words, imagined as would have been played in 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, which was an active dance club as well as a bar. (The center’s website links to the full 93-song playlist.)

Hours are Tuesday – Sunday: 10am – 4pm — except tomorrow, the Pride Parade, when the hours will be noon to 4.