Situated on a magnificent 167-acre site high above the city of Huntsville, Alabama, Burritt on the Mountain encourages visitors to explore the natural beauty of Round Top Mountain, learn about it's ecology, revisit the lives of farmers whose lives revolved around nature, and tour the Burritt Mansion, the home of Dr. William Burritt, whose estate created the Museum that bears his name.

Enter the 1936 Mansion of Dr. William Henry Burritt, physician and inventor. Today, the mansion gives visitors a glimpse of the fascinating life of Dr. Burritt, as well as exhibits interpreting the history of the people and environment of the Southern Cumberland region of Alabama and Tennessee. See two rooms of original furnishings as well as exhibition galleries of regional and natural history, prehistoric Indian artifacts, rocks and minerals, 19th century furnishings and personal artifacts.