List of museums in Georgia (U.S. state) explained

This list of museums in Georgia contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

Museums

See List of museums in Atlanta for museums within the city limits of Atlanta and the immediately adjacent communities of Druid Hills and Hapeville, which are located in Fulton County.

The numbers in the "Regions" column refers to the state government's list of regions, described in a separate section below.

NameTown/cityCountyRegion[1] TypeNotes
Northwest Military website
Classic South Multiple Includes the Victorian period Liberty Hall, and an American Civil War museum
Adairsville Depot History MuseumNorthwest Railroad information
Plantation Trace website, history of the Albany Movement
Albany Dougherty Plantation Trace Includes African, European, and American art
Historic Heartland Music History of The Allman Brothers Band
Magnolia Midlands information, collection includes Staffordshire porcelain, quadruped prints by John James Audubon, Southern art, bird prints, botanical art, wooden sculptures and a Girl Scout room
Historic Heartland 19th house of author Flannery O'Connor
Presidential Pathways Military Site of largest Confederate military prison during the American Civil War and National Prisoner of War Museum
Historic house website, 19th-century period home of Girl Scouts of the USA founder Juliette Gordon Low, operated by The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia
Historic house 19th-century plantation with two-story farm house, slave quarters, cook house, corn crib, barn, carriage house, well, and spring house
Colonial Coast Religious History of Methodism, artifacts of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, located at Epworth by the Sea
Ashley Slater House Magnolia Midlands Historic house information, tourist information center and museum
Historic Heartland Hosts three exhibitions a year of contemporary art, centering on politically and socially engaged themes
Classic South Multiple History of the canal, textile mills along the canal, mill workers, hydroelectricity, canal boat toursa
Augusta Richmond Classic South Local history
Fulton Metro Atlanta Open air Nature preserve, heritage village, farm museum, live animals and dioramas
Magnolia Midlands Art website, include exhibit galleries
Barrow County MuseumWinderBarrowHistoric HeartlandLocal history, located inside a historic jail
Fulton Metro Atlanta Historic house 19th-century period home
Bartow Northwest Local history Displays include settlement, Cherokee life and removal, Civil War strife, and lifestyles of years past
Beach Institute of African American Culture Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Art Facebook site, African-American art, folk art and culture
Bedingfield Inn Presidential Pathways Historic site information, mid-19th-century period inn
Presidential Pathways Historic house 1850s Greek Revival mansion
Beulah Rucker Museum and Education Center Northeast African American website, African-American heritage in Gainesville and north Georgia
Blackbridge Gallery Milledgeville Baldwin Historic Heartland Art website, part of Georgia College & State University
Magnolia Midlands Local history Located in a historic railroad depot, area history during the Civil War
Cartersville Bartow Northwest Art Contemporary American Western art, Civil War art, Presidential letters and portraits
Augusta Richmond Classic South Historic house 1860s period boyhood home of President Woodrow Wilson
Gainesville Hall Northeast Art website, includes three galleries in different locations
Northeast Local history website, operated by the Washington County Historical Society
Roswell Fulton Metro Atlanta Historic house 19th-century period home
Burke County Museum Classic South Local history information, open by appointment
Cairo Antique Auto Museum Plantation Trace Automotive information, information, antique cars, bicycles and motorbikes from the 1900 era, open the first Saturday of each month
Classic South Open air Features several historic houses and structures
Candler Field MuseumSpalding Metro Atlanta history website, Candler Field Museum is a replica of the old Atlanta Airport as it existed in the late 1920s and early 30s.
Historic Heartland Historic house 1853 Greek Revival house with Civil War museum, furnishings and decorative piece of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority, a recreation of the Philomathean Society room at Wesleyan College
Carnegie Center Fitzgerald Ben Hill Magnolia Midlands Art website, changing exhibits, operated by the Fitzgerald Ben Hill Arts Council, located in a former Carnegie Library
Carter-Coile Doctors Museum Clarke Historic Heartland Medical website, country doctor's house and office
Cedartown Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia Cedartown Polk Northwest Local history website, open only Thursdays to Saturdays
Historic Heartlands Natural history Nature preserve with exhibits on wildlife and hunting
Historic High Country Military Museum and site of the Battle of Chickamauga during the American Civil War
Historic High Country Historic house Early 19th-century Cherokee plantation home
Northwest Historic house19th-century home of Cherokee chief Major Ridge
Athens Clarke Historic Heartland Historic house website, serves as the Athens Welcome Center and 1820s house museum
Magnolia Midlands website, space science and astronomy, includes Challenger Learning Center, the Omnisphere Theater and the Mead Observatory
Colquitt County Arts Center Plantation Trace Art website
Columbus Black History Museum Columbus Muscogee Presidential Pathways African American website
Columbus Muscogee Presidential Pathways Multiple American art and regional culture and history
Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Jewish 1733 synagogue and historic artifacts
Northeast Mining Underground tours of the former gold mine
Northeast Medical website, life and career of Dr. Crawford Long, and his use of sulfuric ether to provide "painless surgery"
The Crescent at Valdosta Garden Center Plantation Trace Historic house website
Crime & Punishment Museum Plantation Trace Prison information, information, former Turner County Jail
Colonial Coast Local history Natural and cultural history of the island
Northeast Military website, operated by the Stephens County Historical Society, history of Camp Toccoa at Currahee Mountain in WWII, located in the Toccoa (Amtrak station)
Dahlonega Lumpkin Northeast Mining Includes artifacts and equipment from the 1836 gold rush
Historic Heartland Natural history
Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Historic house 1820s period Isaiah Davenport House, operated by the Historic Savannah Foundation
Decatur County Museum Plantation Trace Local history website, seeking new location
DeKalb History Center Metro Atlanta Local history website
Colonial Coast African American Work by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Citizen Education Program in attaining equality for blacks in the American South
Metro Atlanta Multiple Local history, mid 20th-century culture, art and antiques
Andersonville Sumter Presidential Pathways Military website, Civil War uniforms, history and memorabilia
Magnolia Midlands Local history , operated by the Laurens County Historical Society
Historic Heartland Historic house Early 19th-century period tavern
East Point Historical Society Museum Fulton Colonial Coast Local history website
Colonial Coast Local history website, operated by the Historic Effingham Society
Gainesville Hall Northeast Multiple website, nature center with natural history and science exhibits
Historic Heartland Industry Website, granite quarrying and carving
Gwinnett Metro Atlanta Historic house Operated by the Gwinnett Historical Society, early 19th-century house and outbuildings
Emery Center Whitfield Northwest African American website
Erskine Caldwell Birthplace and Museum Metro Atlanta Biographical 1903 period home of author Erskine Caldwell, may be closed, information
Cartersville Bartow Northwest Archaeological Preserves three Mississippian culture mounds and museum with artifacts found at the site
Bartow Northwest Local history website
Augusta Richmond Classic South Historic house website, operated by the Augusta Museum of History, 18th-century period house
Firehouse Center and Gallery Bainbridge Decatur Plantation Trace Art website, gallery of the Bainbridge-Decatur County Arts Council
Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast History Tours of the historic black Baptist church and artifacts dating to the 18th century
Fitzgerald Fire Engine Museum Fitzgerald Ben Hill Magnolia Midlands Firefighting website
Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Historic house 1920s-1930s period home of author Flannery O'Connor
Flowery Branch Historic Depot and Caboose Northeast Railroad information
Northeast Art website
St. Simons Island Glynn Colonial Coast Military Visitor center with archaeological artifacts and exhibits about the 18th-century fort and town
Fort Gaines Frontier Village Plantation Trace Open air website
Northeast Historic house Frontier fort house and outbuildings
Colonial Coast Military Reconstructed 1736 fort and museum
Colonial Coast Military Civil War earthwork fortification and museum
Midway Liberty Colonial Coast Military American Revolutionary fort site and museum
Chatham Colonial Coast Military Civil War fort and museum with weekend living history demonstrations
Liberty Colonial Coast Military website, history of the Fort Stewart Military Reservation
Northeast Open airwebsite
Northwest Native American Part of Reinhardt University, Native American art, artifacts and culture, and open air Appalachian Settlement
Geechee Kunda Liberty Colonial Coast African American website, culture of the Gullah, local and African art, textiles, tools, utensils, implements, crafts and essentials
Milledgeville Baldwin Historic Heartland Multiple website, changing exhibits of art and history, permanent exhibit on Flannery O'Connor
Milledgeville Baldwin Historic Heartland Natural history website, features dinosaurs, fossils, earth sciences and a planetarium
Georgia Cotton Museum Presidential Pathways Industry - cotton information, cotton farming
Plantation Trace Living Five areas: a traditional farm community of the 1870s, an 1890s progressive farmstead, an industrial sites complex, rural town, Peanut Museum, and the Georgia Museum of Agriculture Center
Athens Clarke Historic Heartland Art The official state museum of art, part of the University of Georgia
Athens Clarke Historic Heartland Natural history Part of the University of Georgia
Northwest Automotive website, stock cars, includes memorabilia and cars of Bill Elliott
St. Marys Camden Georgia's Coast Media History of radio broadcasting in Georgia, plus Georgia Radio Inductee Wall of Fame
Sumter Magnolia Midlands Technology Antique telephones and telephone memorabilia
Georgia Salzburger Society Museum Effingham Colonial Coast History website, history of the descendants of the Salzburg refugees who settled in Georgia after their expulsion in 1734
Statesboro Bulloch Magnolia Midlands Multiple Natural history and dinosaur exhibits, science, local history, part of Georgia Southern University
Statesboro Bulloch Magnolia Midlands Art Includes three galleries, one of which is the permanent home for The Georgia Artists Collection
Macon Bibb Historic Heartland Sports
Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Railroad Operated by the Coastal Heritage Society, historic railcars and rolling stock, operational turntable
Presidential Pathways Military
Milledgeville Baldwin Historic Heartland Local history Located in the building where Georgia's legislators voted to secede from the Union
Augusta Richmond Classic South Art
Gilmer Arts Gallery Northwest Local history website, operated by the Gilmer Arts and Heritage Association
Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Scouting website, located in former carriage house of Girl Scouts of the USA founder Juliette Gordon Low
Magnolia Midlands Local history website
Sumter Presidential Pathways Open air website, Habitat for Humanity site with Habitat houses from countries around the world that show life in poverty
Go Fish Education Center Historic Heartland Multiple website, operated by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Georgia's watersheds and aquatic wildlife, their natural habitats and the impacts of water pollution, fishing, boating, fish hatcheries
Chickamauga Walker Northwest Historic house Mid-19th-century house with many historic associations
Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Historic house Mid-19th-century house
Greene County Museum Greensboro Greene Classic South Local history information, operated by the Greene County Historical Society
Griffin Museum Presidential Pathways Local history information
Grovetown Museum Classic South Local history information
Metro Atlanta Science and historyFocus on the environment, also operates the Gwinnett History Museum in Lawrenceville and a restored 1930s farm in Duluth
Classic South Mill Includes a working grist mill and a museum with agriculture equipment and tools
Hamilton House Dalton Whitfield Northwest Multiple information, exhibits include chenille bedspreads, items and tufting artifacts, Civil War artifacts, antiques, open by appointment with the Whitfield-Murray Historical Society
St. Simons Island Glynn Colonial Coast Historic house Two tabby slave cabins operated by the Cassina Garden Club, located at Gascoigne Bluff
Northwest Multiple website, includes art galleries and the Roland Hayes Museum, about the first African-American classical singer to have an international career on the concert and operatic stages
Magnolia Midlands Local history information
Presidential Pathways Local history Located in a former jail, operated by the Heard County Historical Society
Madison Morgan Historic Heartland Historic house website
Fulton Metro Atlanta Historic house website, includes 19th-century Williams-Payne House and outbuildings, operated by Heritage Sandy Springs
Heritage Station Museum Douglas Coffee Magnolia Midlands Local history information
Classic South Historic house Early 20th-century period home of Georgia Populist Party co-founder Thomas E. Watson
LaGrange Troup Presidential Pathways Historic house 1916 estate and gardens of Fuller Callaway, designed by Neel Reid
Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Railroad trains and street cars
Historic Seabrook Village Midway Liberty Colonial Coast Open air Facebook site, includes over a dozen buildings representing rural coastal African American life after the Civil War
Glynn Colonial Coast Historic house 19th-century rice plantation slave cabins
Metro Atlanta Local history Includes Gone With the Wind and Civil War memorabilia
Howard Finster Vision House Northwest Art website, house and museum of visionary artist Howard Finster, open by appointment
Gwinnett Metro Atlanta Art website, officially the Jacqueline Casey Hudgens Center for the Arts
Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Art Contemporary folk art
Historic Heartland Local history Tours of the ante-bellum mineral springs hotel
Butts Historic Heartland Local history Park features a seasonal museum with exhibits on the Creek Nation, the CCC and local history
Interactive Neighborhood for Kids Gainesville Hall Northeast Children's website
Plantation Trace African American website, black history memorabilia
James Longstreet MuseumGainesvillewww.longstreet.org
Janice Persons Biggers House Columbus Muscogee Presidential Pathways Historic house website, 19th-century period home and offices of Historic Columbus, also known as 700 Broadway
Historic Heartland Historic house 19th-century cotton plantation farm with outbuildings
Magnolia Midlands History Jefferson Davis Memorial Museum at site where Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured in 1865
Glynn Colonial Coast Local history
Sumter Presidential Pathways Biographical Includes President Jimmy Carter's residence, boyhood farm, school, town railroad depot and a museum about his life
Macon Bibb Historic Heartland Historic house Also known as the Hay House, 1850s Italian Renaissance Revival style mansion with furnishings from many periods
Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Historic house 1880s Victorian period home of Girl Scouts of the USA founder Juliette Gordon Low
Cobb Metro Atlanta Military Includes Civil War battleground of the Atlanta Campaign and a museum
King-Tisdell Cottage Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast African American information, African-American Savannah and the Sea Islands
Kingston Woman's History Museums Bartow Northwest Local history information
Plantation Trace Archaeology Museum with early Native American artifacts excavated from the park's Woodland Period mounds
L.L. Wyatt Museum Classic South Prison information, early 19th-century prison with memorabilia from Greene County's law enforcement history
LaGrange Troup Presidential Pathways Art website, formerly the Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum
LaGrange Troup Presidential Pathways Art website, part of LaGrange College
Athens Clarke Historic Heartland Contemporary art galleries
Thomasville Thomas Plantation Trace Historic house 1880s Victorian house
Laurel & Hardy Museum Columbia Classic South Biographical website, Facebook site, early film comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
Gwinnett Metro Atlanta Local history Open by appointment, houses the Gwinnett History Museum
LaGrange Troup Presidential Pathways Local history website
Lincoln County Historical Park Classic South Open air information
Presidential Pathways History President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's personal retreat
Log Cabin At Milton High School Fulton Colonial Coast Historic house website, open by appointment with the Alpharetta Historical Society
Valdosta Lowndes Plantation Trace History website, operated by the Lowndes County Historical Society
Augusta Richmond Classic South African American website, promotes the legacy of Lucy Craft Laney through art, history, and the preservation of her home
Lunchbox Museum Columbus Muscogee Presidential Pathways Commodity information, information, located inside the International Marketplace, metal lunch boxes
Athens Clarke Historic Heartland Multiple Art exhibits and 19th-century Ware-Lyndon House museum
Madison Morgan Historic Heartland Art American, European, Asian and African art and sculpture
Madison Morgan Historic Heartland Multiple website, changing exhibits of art and culture, permanent exhibits of local history, decorative arts, antiques, school room
Male Academy Museum Coweta Metro Atlanta Local history website, operated by the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society
Alpharetta Fulton Metro Atlanta Historic house website, 1912 Queen Anne-style house, operated by the Alpharetta Historical Society
Historic Heartland Decorative arts Botanical gardens with Annabelle Lundy Fetterman Educational Museum featuring a Boehm porcelain collection
Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Local historywebsite, a unit of the Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools, includes a model of old Savannah, Victorian building architecture and artifacts, the impact of Classical styles on Savannah buildings, a 19th-century period classroom, and the founding of Savannah
Metro Atlanta Art website, American art
Marietta Cobb Metro Atlanta Firefighting website, antique fire apparatus, equipment, helmets, uniforms
Marietta Cobb Metro Atlanta Media website, includes Gone with the Wind movie memorabilia
Marietta Cobb Metro Atlanta Local history City and county history, located in Kennesaw House
St. Simons Island Glynn Colonial Coast Maritime Maritime and natural history, operated by the Coastal Georgia Historical Society
Northwest Historic house Antebellum period house
Augusta Richmond Classic South Historic house 18th-century period home of George Walton, one of the three signers of the Declaration of Independence from Georgia
Eatonton Putnam Lake Oconee Car museum http://www.exploregeorgia.org/listing/54271-memory-lane-classic-cars/website, over 150 classic automobiles and motorcycles
Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Historic house Includes 18th- and 19th-century furnishings and decorative arts
McRitchie-Hollis Museum Coweta Metro Atlanta Local history website, operated by the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society, 1937 period home with exhibits about life in WWII and local history
Midway Liberty Colonial Coast Local history website, Colonial era history
Mildred Huie Museum St. Simons Island Glynn Colonial Coast Art website, information, art and history of St. Simons Island plantations and landmarks
Toccoa Stephens Lake Hartwell Automotive museum https://facebook.com/milesthroughtime/https://milesthroughtime.com, co-op style automotive museum in a restored 1939 dealership.
Mitchell Glascock Classic South Railroad former railroad depot
Monroe MuseumMonroeWaltonHistoric HeartlandLocal history, details a timeline of Monroe
Montgomery County Historic Village Magnolia Midlands Historic houses website, part of Brewton-Parker College, two 19th-century period log houses, open by appointment
Moreland Hometown Heritage Museum Coweta Metro Atlanta Local history Also known as Old Mill Museum, information, information
Morgan County African-American Museum Madison Morgan Historic Heartland website, history and the art of African-American culture
Augusta Richmond Classic South Art Art and artists of the American South
Macon Bibb Historic Heartland Multiple Art, science, natural history, live animals, trails, a planetarium
Houston Historic Heartland Located at Robins Air Force Base
Museum of Colquitt County History Moultrie Colquitt Plantation Trace Local history website
Kennesaw Cobb Metro Atlanta History website, a free museum at Kennesaw State University dedicated to World War II and the Holocaust, with frequent public programs and events open to the public
Museum of Southeastern Indians Historic Heartland Native American information, information
Plantation Trace Culture Historic exhibits and memorabilia, housed in Cotton Hall, home of Swamp Gravy, the official folk life play of Georgia
Museum of Southern Isolation Hahira Lowndes Plantation Trace Oddities ICOM-accredited private collection of vintage transportation and natural history curiosities, including a library
Columbus Muscogee Presidential Pathways Military History of the Union and Confederate navies during the Civil War
Columbus Muscogee Presidential Pathways Military Located at Fort Benning, story of infantrymen
Metro Atlanta Aviation Displays include photos, timetables, ticket jackets, uniforms, model airplanes, aviation toys, in-flight serving ware, posters, aircraft components
Chatham Colonial Coast Aviation History of the Eighth Air Force and historic aircraft
Neel House Federated Garden Clubs of Macon Macon Bibb Historic Heartland Historic house website
Gordon Northwest Native American Replica 19th-century Cherokee village
Noble Hill-Wheeler Memorial Center Bartow Northwest African American information, historic black school
Gainesville Hall Northeast Local history website, part of Brenau University, regional history and culture
Rome Floyd Northwest Multiple Historic house and history museum about Berry College and founder Martha Berry
Obediah's Okefenok Colonial Coast Open air website, park includes 1870s log cabin, many historic farm outbuildings, agriculture equipment, animals, print shop museum, antiques, Native American exhibit
Macon Bibb Historic Heartland Native American Archaeology artifacts and Mississippian culture mound
Metro Atlanta Art Website, artwork which is international, representational, figurative, and spiritual in nature, located on the top floor of the Philip Weltner Library
Waycross Ware Colonial Coast Multiple website, art and local history
Old Campbell County Historical Society Museum Fulton Metro Atlanta Local history website
Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Military Operated by the Coastal Heritage Society, restored 19th-century brick fort
Milledgeville Baldwin Historic Heartland Historic house Operated by Georgia College & State University, antebellum mansion
Old Jail Museum Historic Heartland Local history website, operated by the Barnesville-Lamar County Historical Society
Old Jail Museum & Genealogy Research Center Washington Northeast Prison website, operated by the Washington County Historical Society
Old Pickens County Jail Jasper Pickens Northwest Prison website, 20th-century jail and sheriff's house, operated by the Marble Valley Historical Society, and the adjacent Kirby-Quinton Mountain Heritage Cabin
Presidential Pathways Agriculture website, farm tools, equipment and home life implements
Old Stone Church Museum Northwest Local history Facebook site, information
Paradise Garden Summerville Chattooga Northwest Art website, sculpture park museum created by visionary artist Howard Finster
Presidential Pathways Art Visionary art site
Paulding County History Museum Northwest Local history website, operated by the Paulding County Historical Society
Thomasville Thomas Plantation Trace Historic house 20th-century estate featuring 19th-century furniture, porcelain, silver, crystal, and glassware, sporting art and 33 Audubon lithographs, extensive grounds and gardens
Columbus Muscogee Presidential Pathways Historic house Operated by Historic Columbus, Victorian cottage with a late 19th-century apothecary shop, Coca-Cola mementos
Perry Area Historical Museum Perry Houston Historic Heartland Local history website, operated by the Perry Area Historical Society
Pickens County Marble Museum Pickens Northwest Industry information, located in City Hall, history of area marble mining
Dallas Paulding Northwest Military Civil War battlefield and museum
Pin Point Heritage Museum Chatham Colonial Coast Local historywebsite, operated by the Coastal Heritage Society, life, work and history of the Gullah/Geechee community
Douglas Presidential Pathways Mining website, former gold mine, artifacts and equipment
Polk County Historical Society Museum Northwest Local history website
Power of the Past Museum Thomasville Thomas Plantation Trace Aviation website, antique airplanes, motors and memorabilia, located at the Thomasville Regional Airport
Gainesville Hall Northeast Art website
Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast History Facebook site, information, history of the civil rights struggle of Georgia's oldest African-American community from slavery to the present
Columbus Muscogee Presidential Pathways Historic house Operated by Historic Columbus, 1850-1870 house museum
Richmond Hill Museum Bryan Colonial Coast Local history website, operated by the Richmond Hill Historical Society
Clayton Metro Atlanta Media website, items from 1939 movie Gone With The Wind and 1936 novel along with artifacts from the Civil War
Washington Wilkes Classic South Historic house 19th-century period home of politician Robert Toombs
Rome Floyd Northwest Local history website
Cartersville Bartow Northwest Historic housewebsite, Victorian period mansion, houses the writings and memorabilia of evangelist Samuel Porter Jones and Rebecca Latimer Felton, the first woman to serve in the United States Senate
Roswell Fulton Metro Atlanta Firefighting website
Sam Nunn Museum Perry Houston Historic Heartland Biographical information, information, exhibits about Senator Sam Nunn in the Houston County Board of Education building
Darien McIntosh Colonial Coast Multiple Island's cultural and natural history
Sautee-Nacoochee White Northeast Local history website, operated by the Sautee Nacoochee Center
Savannah Children's Museum Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Children's website, operated by the Coastal Heritage Society, outdoor play experiences about Coastal Georgia
Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Local history Operated by the Coastal Heritage Society
Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Multiple Canal history, area history and natural history
Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Art Operated by the Savannah College of Art and Design, located in the, British and American art, African American collection, decorative arts and fashion
Savoy Automobile Museum Cartersville Bartow Northwest Automobiles website, operated by the Georgia Museums, Inc that also operates Booth Western and Tellus museums
Greene Classic South Local history
Senoia Area Historical Society Museum Coweta Metro Atlanta Local history website
Shelnutt House Museum Historic High Country Historic house information, operated by the Bowdon Area Historical Society, open on special occasions
Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Maritime Ship models, maritime paintings and artifacts that reflect Savannah's maritime heritage
Macon Bibb Historic Heartland Historic house Mid-19th-century period home, birthplace of poet Sidney Lanier
Cobb Metro Atlanta Local history website
Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Historic house 1830s period house
Northwest Textile History of quilts and textiles
Duluth Gwinnett Metro Atlanta Railroad Georgia's official transportation history museum, over 90 pieces of rolling stock exhibited on the 30-acre (12 ha) site
Ware Colonial Coast Industry website, forest industry in the South
Kennesaw Cobb Metro Atlanta Multiple Railroad and Civil War artifacts, formerly the Kennesaw Civil War Museum
St. Marys Submarine Museum St. Marys Camden Colonial Coast Maritimeinformation, American submarine history
St. Simons Island GlynnColonial Coast Maritime Lighthouse, St. Simons Lighthouse Museum in the keeper's house, adjacent A. W. Jones Heritage Center, operated by the Coastal Georgia Historical Society
Jonesboro Clayton Metro Atlanta Historic house 1839 antebellum mansion and outbuildings
Morgan Historic Heartland Art Artworks and life of German-American Expressionist Steffen Thomas
Stephens County History Museum Stephens Northeast Local history website, operated by the Stephens County Historical Society in the Toccoa (Amtrak station)
DeKalb Metro Atlanta Multiple Includes the Stone Mountain Museum about the mountain's carving and the Civil War, and the open air Antebellum Plantation and Farmyard
Fort Gaines Clay Plantation Trace History website, 1840s frontier general store complex, owned by Clay County and operated by Fort Gaines Historical Society
Athens Clarke Historic Heartland Historic house Mid-19th-century period home of Confederate General Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb
Tabor House and Civil War Museum Gilmer Northwest Local history website, operated by the Gilmer County Historical Society
Athens Clarke Historic Heartland Historic house mid-19th-century mansion open for tours and rental
Roswell Fulton Metro Atlanta Multiple Open for school groups only
Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Art Includes fine art and decorative art collections in three facilities, including the historic Telfair Mansion and Owens-Thomas House, and the contemporary Jepson Center for the Arts
Cartersville Bartow Historic High Country Natural history/science Formerly Weinman Mineral Museum, exhibits include minerals, dinosaurs and fossils, transportation technology, science playground and a planetarium
Thomasville Thomas Plantation Trace Multiple website, includes main museum of local history, 1877 middle-class home, 1893 single-lane bowling alley, 1860s log house, 1890s courthouse
Thomasville Thomas Plantation Trace Art website, community arts center for visual, performing, literary and applied arts, includes three galleries
Albany Dougherty Plantation Trace Multiple Includes a science museum, local history museum and planetarium
Thunderbolt Museum Chatham Colonial Coast Local history website
Glynn Colonial Coast Natural history website
Tifton Tift Plantation Trace Art website
Toccoa Stephens Northeast Historic house Early 19th-century tavern and inn
Macon Bibb Historic Heartland African American Art, history and culture of African Americans
Whitfield Northwest Multiple website, local history museum, historic railroad tunnel and train viewing
Valdosta Lowndes Plantation Trace Art website
Franklin Northeast Biographical Baseball player Ty Cobb
Augusta Richmond Classic South Military website, history of the Signal Corps, development of Fort Gordon and vicinity, and the U.S. Army
Historic Heartland Media website, log cabin created from two slave cabins, dedicated to portraying Southern life as in the Uncle Remus stories
Valdosta State University Fine Arts Gallery Valdosta Lowndes Plantation Trace Art website, located in the Fine Arts Building
Vidalia Toombs Magnolia Midlands Food website, history of the Vidalia onion and its growing region
Northeast History Includes Vogel Museum about the CCC
Waffle House Museum Decatur DeKalb Metro Atlanta Food website, restored 1955 site of the first Waffle House restaurant, features restaurant memorabilia
Walker County Regional Heritage/Train Museum Chickamauga Walker Northwest Multiple information, local history, railroad history and model trains
Griffin Spalding Metro Atlanta Historic house website, unique exhibits from the early 1900s
Columbus Muscogee Presidential PathwaysHistoric house website, operated by Historic Columbus, early 19th-century house
Washington Wilkes Classic South Historic house Mid-19th-century period antebellum house
Webb Military Museum Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast US military Website, military artifacts from Civil War to Cold War, free to active duty military
West Georgia Museum Northwest Multiple website, local and natural history, includes replicas of old stores, a barber shop and a bank, and dinosaur models
Muscogee Presidential Pathways Living 19th-century rural village, website
Marietta Cobb Metro Atlanta Historic house website, operated by Cobb Landmarks & Historical Society, 1850s period house
Columbus Muscogee Presidential Pathways Historic house website, operated by Historic Columbus, 1840s farm house
Douglas Coffee Magnolia Midlands Aviation website
Savannah Chatham Colonial Coast Local history Former 18th-century plantation site and museum

Defunct museums

Tourism regions

The Georgia Department of Economic Development[13] has defined nine tourism regions as listed below with their associated travel associations as footnotes.

Classic South

East central part of the state, includes the city of Augusta[14]

Georgia Coast

Also known as the Colonial Coast, includes the city of Savannah[15]

Historic Heartland

Central part of the state, includes the cities of Macon and Athens[16]

Northwest Georgia

Northwest region, includes Chickamauga[17]

Magnolia Midlands

Southeast section, includes Statesboro,[18] Counties: Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Bleckley, Bulloch, Candler, Coffee, Dodge, Evans, Irwin, Jeff Davis, Laurens, Long, Montgomery, Pulaski, Screven, Tattnall, Telfair, Toombs, Treutlen, Wayne, Wheeler, and Wilcox.

Northeast Georgia Mountains

Northeast region,[19] counties: Banks, Dawson, Elbert, Forsyth, Franklin, Habersham, Hall, Hart, Jackson, Lumpkin, Madison, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union, and White

Plantation Trace

Rural southwestern section, includes Fitzgerald[20]

Presidential Pathways

West central section,[21] includes Columbus and Plains

See also

Lists of other institutions in Georgia similar to museums:

External links

Notes and References

  1. See "Region" section of this article for explanation of numbers and the extent of regions
  2. Web site: Official site. C. E. Blevins Avian Learning Center. 13 April 2015.
  3. Web site: Coweta African-American Heritage Museum: Facility closes amid records dispute. Times Herald. 10 April 2015. March 7, 2012.
  4. Web site: Georgia Children's Museum in Macon to close. 13WMAZ. 10 April 2015. January 30, 2014.
  5. Web site: Moreland dissolves the Grizzard Trust. Times Herald. 10 April 2015. April 17, 2012.
  6. Web site: Grizzard Museum collection relocated in Moreland. Athens Banner-Herald. 10 April 2015. November 9, 2011.
  7. Web site: Nash Farm Battlefield museum to close after commissioner requests removal of Confederate flags. Heather. Middleton. Asia. Ashley. Henry Herald.
  8. Web site: Old Mill Motorcycle Museum. Fried Green Products. 13 April 2015. Museum is closed permanently.
  9. http://wsbradio.com/localnews/2009/03/stone-mountain-museum-auction.html Stone Mountain Museum Auction
  10. http://www.ajc.com/ajccars/content/ajccars/content/stories/2009/03/13/antique_car_auction_protsman.html Antique car auction ends an era for Stone Mountain museum owner, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 13, 2009
  11. Web site: Navy Supply Corps School Athens Closes Doors After 57 Years. U.S. Navy. 10 April 2015. November 2, 2010.
  12. Web site: Navy school museum trove will disperse. Online Athens. 10 April 2015. February 21, 2010.
  13. Web site: Explore Georgia - Official Georgia Tourism & Travel Website - Explore Georgia.org. www.exploregeorgia.org.
  14. Web site: Classic South. Official Georgia Tourism & Travel Website - Explore Georgia.org.
  15. Web site: Visit Coastal Georgia - Georgia Coast Travel Association (GCTA). visitcoastalgeorgia.org.
  16. Web site: Historic Heartland. Official Georgia Tourism & Travel Website - Explore Georgia.org.
  17. Web site: Northwest Georgia's Historic High Country Region. georgiahighcountry.org.
  18. Web site: Magnolia Midlands.
  19. Web site: Northeast Georgia Mountains Travel Association. Northeast Georgia Mountains Travel Association.
  20. Web site: Plantation Trace. Official Georgia Tourism & Travel Website - Explore Georgia.org.
  21. Web site: 有名なソープ街で楽しもう！日本全国高級ソープの旅. www.presidentialpathways.com.

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