Fifty-five years to the day after the Stonewall uprising began in Greenwich Village, igniting what many consider to be the spark that led to the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, a visitor center commemorating the rebellion has opened its doors. 

Located at 51 Christopher St., between Waverly Place and Seventh Avenue South, the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center will serve as an educational resource to the public, hosting tours, exhibitions and lectures — all focused on LGBTQ+ history and culture.

"The journey to create the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center has been a truly remarkable and landmark moment," Ann Marie Gothard, a co-founder of the visitor center, said in a press release.

The visitor center sits adjacent to the Stonewall Inn, which was the site of a 1969 uprising set off by a police raid that served as a watershed moment in the history of the LGBTQ+ rights movement.

In 2016, then-President Barack Obama designated the bar — as well as Christopher Park and the streets and sidewalks around it — a national monument, making it the first U.S. national monument dedicated to LGBTQ rights and history.

A year before that, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission deemed the bar an individual landmark. 

Construction of the project, which encompasses 2,100 square feet, was supervised by the national not-for-profit organization Pride Live in partnership with the National Park Service, the release said.   

President Joe Biden, Gov. Kathy Hochul and other elected officials attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the center on Friday.