Birmingham Visitor's Guide August 26 - August 28 Events: Sidewalk Film Festival The Sidewalk Film Festival is an annual film festival scheduled taking place during the last weekend in August in the Theatre District of Birmingham, Alabama, since 1999. Wikipedia Address: Multiple locations Hours: August 20 – 26 Birmingham Barons The Birmingham Barons are a Minor League Baseball team based in Birmingham, Alabama. The team, which plays in the Southern League, is the Double-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox and plays at Regions Field in downtown Birmingham. Wikipedia Address: 1401 1st Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35244 Hours: August 26 @ 3:00pm, August 27 @ 7:05pm, August 28 @ 7:05pm Taste of 4th Avenue Jazz Festival Taking place in Birmingham’s historic 4th Avenue Historic District, the jazz festival is annual tradition that brings out great musicians and lively crowds. Address: 1631 4th Avenue North, Birmingham AL 35203 Hours: August 25, gates open at noon, show starts at 2 pm and continues through the night! Activities: Vulcan Park and Museum Statue symbolizing city's industries sits atop Red Mountain, surrounded by a park & a museum...Wikipedia Address: 1701 Valley View Dr, Birmingham, AL 35209 Hours: 10am - 10pm Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Museum in Birmingham, Alabama The Alabama Sports Hall of Fame is a state museum located in Birmingham, Alabama, dedicated to communicating the state’s athletic history. Wikipedia Address: 2150 Richard Arrington Jr Blvd N, Birmingham, AL 35203 Hours: 9am - 5pm (closed on Sunday) Birmingham Museum of Art Founded in 1951, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama, today has one of the finest collections in the Southeastern United States, with more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, ... Wikipedia Address: 2000 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35203 Hours: Sunday: 12pm - 5pm, Monday: closed, Tuesday - Saturday: 10am - 5pm Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is a large interpretive museum and research center in Birmingham, Alabama that depicts the struggles of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Wikipedia Address: 520 16th St N, Birmingham, AL 35203 Hours: Sunday: 1pm - 5pm, Monday: Closed, Tuesday: 10am - 5pm Sloss Furnaces Sloss Furnaces is a National Historic Landmark in Birmingham, Alabama in the United States. It operated as a pig iron-producing blast furnace from 1882 to 1971.Wikipedia Address: 1236, 20 32nd St N, Birmingham, AL 35222 Hours: Sunday: 12pm - 4pm, Monday: Closed, Tuesday: 10am - 4pm Railroad Park Railroad Park is a 19-acre park in Birmingham, Alabama, that opened in the fall of 2010. It was designed by landscape architect Tom Leader and built by Birmingham-based Brasfield & Gorrie. Wikipedia Address: 1700 1st Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35233 Hours: 7am - 11pm Birmingham Botanical Gardens The Birmingham Botanical Gardens is 67.5-acre of botanical gardens located adjacent to Lane Park at the southern foot of Red Mountain in Birmingham, Alabama. Wikipedia Address: 2612 Lane Park Rd, Birmingham, AL 35223 Hours: 6am - 6pm Birmingham Zoo The Birmingham Zoo is a zoological park that opened in 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama. It is the largest zoo in Alabama. Wikipedia Address: 2630 Cahaba Rd, Birmingham, AL 35223 Hours: 9am - 5pm Ruffner Mountain Nature Preserve Ruffner Mountain Nature Preserve is a 1,040 acre nature preserve located in the eastern portion of Jefferson County, Alabama in the City of Birmingham's historic South East Lake neighborhood. Wikipedia Address: 1214 81st St S, Birmingham, AL 35206 Hours: Sunday: 1pm - 5pm, Monday: Closed, Tuesday-Saturday: 9am - 5pm Restaurants: Highlands Bar and Grill Address: 2011 11th Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35205 Hours: Tuesday – Saturday: 5:30pm – 10pm 1pm Phone: (205) 939-1400 El Barrio Address: 2211 2nd Ave N, Birmingham, AL 35203 Hours: Tuesday – Friday: 11:00am – 3:00pm and 5:00pm – 10:00pm Phone: (205) 868-3737 Chez Fonfon Address: 2007 11th Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35205 Hours: Tuesday – Thursday: 11:00am – 10:00pm, Friday: 11:00am - 10:30pm, Saturday: 4:30pm – 10:30pm Phone: (205) 939-3221 Bottega Restaurant Address: 2240 Highland Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35205 Hours: Tuesday – Saturday: 5:30pm – 10:00pm Phone: (205) 939-1000 Saw’s Restaurants Saws’s BBQ Address: 1008 Oxmoor Road Homewood AL 35209 Hours: Monday - Saturday 11:00am - 8:00pm Phone: (205) 879-1937 Saw’s Soul Kitchen Address: 215 41st St South Birmingham, AL 35222 Hours: Monday - Saturday 11:00am - 8:00pm, Sunday 11:00am - 4:00pm Phone: (205) 591-1409 Saw’s Juke Joint Address: 1115 Dunston Ave, Birmingham, AL 35213 Hours: Monday - Saturday 11:00am - 12:00am Phone: (205) 745-3920 Melt Address: 4105 4th Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35222 Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11:00am - 9:00pm Phone: (205) 917-5000 Hot & Hot Fish Club Address: 2180 11th Ct S, Birmingham, AL 35205 Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 5:00pm - 10:00pm Phone: (205) 933-5474 Dreamland Bar-B-Que Address: 1427 14th Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35205 Hours: Sunday-Saturday 10:00am - 10:00 pm Phone: (205) 933-2133 Ovenbird Address: 2810 3rd Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35233 Hours: Monday - Thursday 4:30 pm - 10:00 pm, Friday - Saturday 4:30 pm - 11:00 pm Phone: (205) 957-6686 .