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Things to Do: Museums

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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #3 of 202 attractions in Atlanta

The 19th-century farmhouse that once belonged to Joel Chandler Harris, the author of Br'er Rabbit and Br'er Fox.

Attraction type: Historic home; Museum
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #5 of 202 attractions in Atlanta

The Atlanta History Museum is located at the Atlanta History Center. The Atlanta History Center also features the Swan House mansion, Tullie Smith farm, the Margaret Mitchell House, the Centennial Olympic Games Museum, and five permanent exhibitions.

Attraction type: History museum; Garden; Other
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #6 of 202 attractions in Atlanta
Attraction type: Specialty museum
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #13 of 202 attractions in Atlanta

In the 1880s, before there were epic motion pictures, there were Cycloramas. This 42-foot-high cylindrical oil painting depicts the Battle of Atlanta in 1864. Viewed from a 360-degree rotating platform, the vivid details of this historic Civil War battle are now restored and enhanced with music, narration and sound effects. Accompanying the Cyclorama is the Civil War Museum, highlighted by a steam locomotive from 1862.

Attraction type: History museum; Art museum; Other
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #19 of 202 attractions in Atlanta

When the original WOC opened in 1990 it was never intended to be a profit center for The Coca-Cola Company. There was a nominal admission cost at $2.50 for adults with lower price tickets for seniors,

Attraction type: History museum; Factory tour; Specialty museum; Tour; Other
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #21 of 202 attractions in Atlanta

This large African-American cultural museum highlights both local and national issues.

Attraction type: History museum; Other
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #24 of 202 attractions in Atlanta

This 45,000-square-foot museum on the campus of Emory University is the largest natural history museum in the Southeast.

Attraction type: Natural history museum; Art museum; Other
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #25 of 202 attractions in Atlanta

Margaret Mitchell's one and only novel, "Gone with the Wind," was born in an apartment in this turn-of-the-century Tudor Revival mansion. Now a museum on the National Register of Historic Places, the house offers visitors a 90-minute guided tour that tells the story of the author, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book and the making of the movie.

Attraction type: Specialty museum; Historic home; Museum; History museum
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #27 of 202 attractions in Atlanta

This art and theater complex is home to Atlanta's largest and most prominent art institutions.

Attraction type: Architectural building; Art museum; Educational site; Theater district; Symphony; Performance
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #31 of 202 attractions in Atlanta

One of the largest natural history museums in the U.S., the Fernbank's architecture is as intriguing as the fascinating exhibits inside. The building has spiraling staircases, huge columns, a brick atrium and windows looking out onto the forest that it borders. The exhibits are spectacular and include a life-sized kaleidoscope, a skeleton of the largest dinosaur ever discovered, an IMAX theater and a "Walk Through Time in Georgia," a story of the earth's develoment, complete with sound effects and recreated landscapes of a swamp, cavern, marsh and plateau.

Attraction type: Natural history museum; Other
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 3 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #37 of 202 attractions in Atlanta

This stunning, porcelain-enameled building was designed by famed architect Richard Meier and is rivaled only by the art inside. Featuring American, European and African art, as well as decorative art and photography, the High Museum boasts a permanent collection of over 11,000 pieces, many of which can be viewed from different levels of the four-story, glass atrium.

Attraction type: Art museum; Museum; Art gallery; Other
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars

The Carter Presidential Library and Museum re-opens October 1, 2009 as an all-new,state-of-the-art museum tracing the life and work of President Jimmy Carter, from his childhood in Plains to the work he and Mrs. Carter do around the world to promote peace and health.

Attraction type: Library; History museum
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #39 of 202 attractions in Atlanta

Highlights of this science museum include an exhibit on the development of life in Georgia over the past 500 million years, the original Apollo 6 space capsule and the world's largest telescope dedicated to public education.

Attraction type: Observatory/planetarium; Science museum; Other
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #48 of 202 attractions in Atlanta

A performing arts center as well as a museum.

Attraction type: Theater; Specialty museum; Science museum
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #66 of 202 attractions in Atlanta
Attraction type: Sports museum
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #68 of 202 attractions in Atlanta
Attraction type: Specialty museum
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #76 of 202 attractions in Atlanta

This museum of Jewish heritage and culture focuses on the experiences of Jews in Atlanta.

Attraction type: Specialty museum; Other
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #77 of 202 attractions in Atlanta
Attraction type: Art museum
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #80 of 202 attractions in Atlanta

Located in the Woodruff Arts Center, this gallery features a rotating series of shows.

Attraction type: Art gallery
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #82 of 202 attractions in Atlanta

This center for African-American art is located in an old Victorian house.

Attraction type: Art gallery
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