Macon, Georgia

Art

Newnan, Georgia

History

The Newnan Coweta Historical Society is housed in the Male Academy Museum. This building served as a private boys school from1883-1888. Situated in one of Newnan's 5 Historic Districts, the museum exhibits both permanent and temporary collections.

Nelson, Georgia

Archaeology, General, History, Science, Specialized

The museum includes a year-round exhibit that includes “examples of fine marble and shows the history of marble mining in Pickens County. Many stone cutters and other workers who migrated from either Italy or Scotland in the early years of the industry settled in Nelson to work in the area’s marble industry. Today the Great Northern Railroad operates between Tate, Georgia, and the CSX interchange at Elizabeth (Marietta) five days a week. The Georgia Marble rail lines at Tate and Marble Hill, and the Blue Ridge Scenic Railroad at Blue Ridge, Georgia are also operated by GNRR. Their web site also states the the “GNRR runs through a Georgia Marble facility that no is no longer served by rail” at Nelson. Information source is From Wikipedia

Marietta, Georgia

Art, Children's, General, History, Library

The Marietta Museum of History seeks to explore, interpret and educate its visitors on the history of Marietta and Cobb County. There are currently three galleries and the beginnings of a fourth gallery to incorporate our large military collection. We strive to provide thoughtful permanent and temporary exhibits that explore the history of the area.

Atlanta, Georgia

Art

The historic site was established to preserve and interpret the birth place, church, community, and tomb of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Atlanta, Georgia

Art, Culture, General, History, Library, University

The collections of the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University span the globe and the centuries. Housed in a distinguished building by renowned architect Michael Graves, the Carlos maintains the largest collection of ancient art in the Southeast with objects from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, and the ancient Americas. The Museum is also home to collections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century sub-Saharan African art and European and American works on paper from the Renaissance to the present day.

Pooler, Georgia

Art, Culture, History, Library, Military, Science, Specialized

Plan to spend the day enjoying one of the world’s most powerful museum experiences. With vintage aircraft, artifacts, photographs, the thrilling “Mission Experience,” and personal stories, this Museum has it all!

Monroe, Georgia

Art, Culture, Specialized

Monroe-Walton Center for the Arts. We’re so much more than a place to view fabulous (mostly local!) art. We’re your new favorite destination for shopping for the perfect unique artisan-made gift. We’re your creativity stretching place at classes taught by talented artists for all ages and abilities. Find inspiration for your home or your soul. Art for you and Art for All in the heart on Monroe.

Madison, Georgia

History

The Morgan County African-American Museum is an institution dedicated to preserving African-American heritage and promoting awareness of the contributions the African-American has made to the culture of the South.

Moultrie, Georgia

Madison, Georgia

Culture

The Madison-Morgan Cultural Center is located in a Romanesque Revival building that originally housed one of the first brick graded school buildings in the South(1895). The building re-opened as a multi-dimensional regional facility in 1976.

Newnan, Georgia

Art, Culture

Atlanta, Georgia

Culture, History, Historic House, Historical Society, Library

Operated by the Atlanta History Center, the Margaret Mitchell House features guided tours of the apartment where Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone With the Wind, a Gone With the Wind movie exhibition, an exhibition showcasing the life and times of one of America’s most famous authors, and the Margaret Mitchell gift shop. Throughout the year, enjoy a variety of programs presented by the Literary Center at the Margaret Mitchell House. Designed to honor and preserve the legacy of Margaret Mitchell, the Literary Center hosts regular programs with award-winning authors, as well as annual creative writing classes for adults and youth, and community initiatives that engage younger generations in the process of writing, reading, and reciting literature, such as the Big Read and Poetry Out Loud.

Marietta, Georgia

Art

The mission of the Museum (built in 1909) is to provide exposure to the visual arts, with primary emphasis on collecting, preserving, and presenting American works through curated exhibitions, outreach programs, and social activities.

Augusta, Georgia

Midway, Georgia

Cemetery, History, Historic House, Library

A Colonial Museum with 18th Century original furnishings on 3 floors. Old 1792 Midway Church with slave gallery and old cemetery with true legends can be viewed.

Toccoa, Georgia

History, Specialized

Was your desire to speed down the track in candy apple red Corvette Sting Ray? Or maybe a Mustang GT500 is more your style? Sean’s dream since he could remember was his Pop’s ’59 Cadillac Coup De Ville. He never saw the car in the daylight growing up, it stayed safe, covered up in his Pop’s shop. Years after his Pop passed the Caddy still sat in the shop, it’s future unknown. After a lot of heart, time and some needed cooperation from Sean’s dad Pop’s 59 made the long trip from the sunny west coast to her new home in the south.

Moreland, Georgia

Historical Society

Old mill open for tours and town events. Items on display are farm, home, mill and store artifacts

Augusta, Georgia

Art, Children's, Culture, General, History, Library, Specialized

The Morris Museum of Art, located on the Riverwalk in downtown Augusta, Georgia, is the first museum dedicated to the art and artists of the American South. The collection includes holdings of nearly 5,000 paintings, works on paper, photographs, and sculptures dating from the late-eighteenth century to the present. In addition to the permanent collection galleries, the museum hosts eight to ten temporary special exhibitions every year.

Milledgeville, Georgia

The Museum is housed in a turn of Century Victorian Home. It was founded in 1975 to gather and perserve information relating to education in the State of Georgia. It has 2 permanent exhibits and 1 changing exhibits gallery.