This list of museums in Atlanta is a list of museums, 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. Also included are non-profit and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
This list includes museums in the City of Atlanta and the immediately adjacent communities of Druid Hills, and Hapeville at Atlanta's airport. For museums in the rest of Metro Atlanta and the rest of the state of Georgia, see List of museums in Georgia (U.S. state).
See main article: List of museums in Georgia (U.S. state).
| Name | Image | Area | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| African American | Contributions of African Americans to the United States and the world | |||
| Art | Local, national, and international contemporary art; education geared toward working artists and collectors of art | |||
| History | History of Atlanta and Georgia; includes the Centennial Olympic Games Museum[1] and one of the nation's most complete Civil War exhibitions | |||
| Numismatic | History of money, banking in America, and the Federal Reserve, operated by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | |||
| Booth Western Art Museum | Cartersville | Art | The world's largest permanent exhibition space for Western art. | |
| Midtown Atlanta | Jewish | Jewish history, with special emphasis on Georgia and the Holocaust | ||
| Druid Hills | Art | Community arts center, gallery hosts one-person and occasional group exhibitions by emerging local artists in varied media | ||
| Midtown Atlanta | Puppetry | Puppets from various time periods and countries around the world | ||
| Children's | Formerly known as ""Imagine It! The Children's Museum of Atlanta" | |||
| Art | African American art[2] | |||
| Sports | Honors collegiate athletes from around the country | |||
| Medical | [3] Public health issues, operated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | |||
| Aviation | Aircraft, aviation, and history of Delta Air Lines | |||
| Dignity Museum | College Park | Homelessness | [4] Homelessness, Poverty, Justice | |
| Natural history | Natural history and the development of the planet | |||
| Science | Planetarium, telescope, and Fernbank Forest, a 65acres natural forest | |||
| Midtown Atlanta | Art | Contemporary art and photography | ||
| History | Collections representing the natural and cultural history of Georgia | |||
| Buckhead | Historic house | Mid 20th century official home of the state's governors | ||
| African American | African American fine art, culture of the African diaspora; located in a historic Queen Anne-style house | |||
| Hapeville Depot Museum | Local history | Historic 1890 train depot featuring local history. The museum is operated by the City of Hapeville. | ||
| Historic house | House of Alonzo Franklin Herndon, a rags-to-riches hero who was born into slavery and went on to become Atlanta's first black millionaire | |||
| Midtown Atlanta | Art | Southeast's leading art museum and among the 100 most-visited art museums in the world; significant permanent collection of 19th and 20th century American art, European art, decorative arts, African American art, modern and contemporary art, photography and African art; traveling exhibitions[5] | ||
| Sports | Atlanta Braves history and memorabilia | |||
| Biographical | Presidential library with papers and exhibits about President Jimmy Carter and the Carter family's life | |||
| History | Covers the American Civil Rights Movement, the preserved boyhood home of Dr. King, the church where he pastored, and his final resting place | |||
| Midtown Atlanta | Historic house | Life of Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell and Gone with the Wind museum, operated by the Atlanta History Center | ||
| Art | Art from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, and the ancient Americas, 19th- and 20th-century sub-Saharan African art, and European and American works on paper from the Renaissance to the present day; largest collection of ancient art in the Southeast[6] [7] | |||
| Art | Georgia history, architecture, culture and philanthropic heritage | |||
| Buckhead | Art | Archive of hundreds of contemporary works by Georgia artists in painting, print, sculpture and photography | ||
| Midtown Atlanta | Design | Only design museum in the Southeast; devoted exclusively to the study and celebration of design in architecture, products, interiors, furniture, graphics, fashion | ||
| National Museum of Decorative Painting | Midtown Atlanta | Art | Collects, preserves, and exhibits a variety of items from around the world and across many time periods that are examples of the art of decorative painting, including historic and contemporary decorated items, open by appointment[8] | |
| African American | Afrocentric teaching museum | |||
| Midtown Atlanta | Historic house | 1904 Romanesque Revival 9000square feet mansion inspired by Rhineland castles | ||
| Midtown Atlanta | Art | Changing paper art exhibits, and science and technology of papermaking; allows visitors to create their own paper | ||
| Art | Art by and about women of the African diaspora | |||
| Buckhead | Historic house | 1920s–1930s period furnishings, operated by the Atlanta History Center | ||
| Teaching Museum South | Multiple | [9] Open for school groups only | ||
| Buckhead | Historic house | 1840 plantation farm house, operated by the Atlanta History Center | ||
| Corporate | Coca-Cola history and memorabilia | |||
| Historic house | Late 19th century home of Joel Chandler Harris, author of the Tales of Uncle Remus | |||