Museums/Galleries in Atlanta

Sights Overview

Name	Category	Location

African American Panoramic Experience (APEX) The museum's quarterly exhibits chronicle the history of black...	Museums / Galleries	Sweet Auburn

Atlanta Botanical Garden Occupying 30 acres inside Piedmont Park, the grounds contain...	Museums / Galleries, Gardens / Arboretums	Midtown and Westside

Atlanta Contemporary Art Center Established by a group of photographers in the '70s as the arts...	Museums / Galleries	Midtown and Westside

Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum A building in Grant Park (named for a New England-born Confederate...	Museums / Galleries	Downtown

Atlanta History Center Life in Atlanta and the rest of the South during and after the...	Museums / Galleries, Houses / Mansions, Gardens / Arboretums, Farms	Buckhead


Atlanta Monetary Museum The exhibits in this grand museum explain the story of money...	Museums / Galleries, Financial Institutions	Midtown and Westside

Center for Puppetry Arts The largest puppetry organization in the country houses a museum...	Museums / Galleries, Arts / Performance Venues	Midtown and Westside

Decatur Historical Courthouse Known as the Old Courthouse on the Square, this charming building...	Museums / Galleries, Architectural Sites, Historic Districts / Sites	Atlanta

Ebenezer Baptist Church A Gothic Revival-style building completed in 1922, the church...	Museums / Galleries, Religious Sites	Sweet Auburn

Fernbank Museum of Natural History One of the largest natural-history museums south of the Smithsonian...	Museums / Galleries	Atlanta

Fernbank Science Center The museum, in the 65-acre Fernbank Forest, focuses on ecology...	Museums / Galleries, Educational Institutions	Atlanta

Hammonds House The handsome Eastlake Victorian house that belonged to Otis Thrash...	Museums / Galleries	Downtown

High Museum of Art This museum's permanent collection includes 19th- and 20-century...	Museums / Galleries	Midtown and Westside

Imagine It! The Children's Museum of Atlanta In this colorful and joyfully noisy museum for children ages...	Museums / Galleries	Downtown

Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum This complex occupies the site where Union General William T...	Museums / Galleries	Atlanta

Margaret Mitchell House and Museum While she wrote her masterpiece, the author of Gone With the...	Museums / Galleries, Architectural Sites	Midtown and Westside

Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic District occupies...	Museums / Galleries	Sweet Auburn

Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site and Birth Home The modest Queen Anne-style residence is where Martin Luther...	Museums / Galleries	Sweet Auburn

Michael C. Carlos Museum Housing a permanent collection of more than 16,000 objects, this...	Museums / Galleries	Atlanta

Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) Georgia's visual artists are showcased in small gallery, housed...	Museums / Galleries	Midtown and Westside

Museum of Design Atlanta The only museum in the Southeast devoted exclusively to design...	Museums / Galleries	Downtown

Robert C. Williams Paper Museum More than 10,000 tools, machines, papers, and watermarks, plus...	Museums / Galleries	Midtown and Westside

The William Breman Jewish Heritage & Holocaust Museum The history of the Jewish community in Atlanta is told through...	Museums / Galleries	Midtown and Westside

World of Coca-Cola This shrine to the brown soda's image, products, and marketing...	Museums / Galleries	Downtown

Wren's Nest House Museum Joel Chandler Harris, author of the Uncle Remus tales, lived...	Museums / Galleries	Downtown
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