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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.
Name | Town/city | County | Region[1] | Type | Notes |
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6th Cavalry Museum | Fort Oglethorpe | Catoosa | Northwest | Military | website |
A. H. Stephens State Historic Park Confederate Museum | Crawfordville | Taliaferro | Classic South | Multiple | Includes the Victorian period Liberty Hall, and an American Civil War museum |
Adairsville Depot History Museum | Adairsville | Bartow | Northwest | Railroad | information |
Albany Civil Rights Institute | Albany | Dougherty | Plantation Trace | History / African American | website, history of the Albany Movement |
Albany Museum of Art | Albany | Dougherty | Plantation Trace | Art | Includes African, European, and American art |
Allman Brothers Band Museum | Macon | Bibb | Historic Heartland | Music | History of The Allman Brothers Band |
Altama Museum of Art and History | Vidalia | Toombs | Magnolia Midlands | Art | information, collection includes Staffordshire porcelain, quadruped prints by John James Audubon, Southern art, bird prints, botanical art, wooden sculptures and a Girl Scout room |
Andalusia | Milledgeville | Baldwin | Historic Heartland | Historic house | 19th house of author Flannery O'Connor |
Andersonville National Historic Site | Andersonville | Macon | Presidential Pathways | Military | Site of largest Confederate military prison during the American Civil War and National Prisoner of War Museum |
Andrew Low House | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | 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 |
Archibald Smith Plantation Home | Roswell | Fulton | Metro Atlanta | Historic house | 19th-century plantation with two-story farm house, slave quarters, cook house, corn crib, barn, carriage house, well, and spring house |
Arthur Moore Methodist Museum | St. Simons Island | Glynn | Colonial Coast | Religious | History of Methodism, artifacts of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, located at Epworth by the Sea |
Ashley Slater House | Douglas | Coffee | Magnolia Midlands | Historic house | information, tourist information center and museum |
Athens Institute for Contemporary Art | Athens | Clarke | Historic Heartland | Art | Hosts three exhibitions a year of contemporary art, centering on politically and socially engaged themes |
Augusta Canal National Heritage Area Discovery Center | Augusta | Richmond | Classic South | Multiple | History of the canal, textile mills along the canal, mill workers, hydroelectricity, canal boat toursa |
Augusta Museum of History | Augusta | Richmond | Classic South | Local history | |
Autrey Mill Nature Preserve and Heritage Center | Johns Creek | Fulton | Metro Atlanta | Open air | Nature preserve, heritage village, farm museum, live animals and dioramas |
Averitt Center for the Arts | Statesboro | Bulloch | Magnolia Midlands | Art | website, include exhibit galleries |
Barrow County Museum | Winder | Barrow | Historic Heartland | Local history | Facebook, located inside a historic jail |
Barrington Hall | Roswell | Fulton | Metro Atlanta | Historic house | 19th-century period home |
Bartow History Museum | Cartersville | 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 | Lumpkin | Stewart | Presidential Pathways | Historic site | information, mid-19th-century period inn |
Bellevue | LaGrange | Troup | Presidential Pathways | Historic house | 1850s Greek Revival mansion |
Beulah Rucker Museum and Education Center | Gainesville | Hall | 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 |
Blue and Gray Museum | Fitzgerald | Ben Hill | Magnolia Midlands | Local history | Located in a historic railroad depot, area history during the Civil War |
Booth Western Art Museum | Cartersville | Bartow | Northwest | Art | Contemporary American Western art, Civil War art, Presidential letters and portraits |
Boyhood Home of President Woodrow Wilson | Augusta | Richmond | Classic South | Historic house | 1860s period boyhood home of President Woodrow Wilson |
Brenau University Galleries | Gainesville | Hall | Northeast | Art | website, includes three galleries in different locations |
Brown House Museum | Sandersville | Washington | Northeast | Local history | website, operated by the Washington County Historical Society |
Bulloch Hall | Roswell | Fulton | Metro Atlanta | Historic house | 19th-century period home |
Burke County Museum | Waynesboro | Burke | Classic South | Local history | information, open by appointment |
Cairo Antique Auto Museum | Cairo | Grady | Plantation Trace | Automotive | information, information, antique cars, bicycles and motorbikes from the 1900 era, open the first Saturday of each month |
Callaway Plantation | Washington | Wilkes | Classic South | Open air | Features several historic houses and structures |
Candler Field Museum | Griffin | Spalding | 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. |
Cannonball House | Macon | Bibb | 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 | Winterville | 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 |
Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center | Mansfield | Newton | Historic Heartlands | Natural history | Nature preserve with exhibits on wildlife and hunting |
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park | Chickamauga | Walker | Historic High Country | Military | Museum and site of the Battle of Chickamauga during the American Civil War |
Chief Vann House Historic Site | Chatsworth | Murray | Historic High Country | Historic house | Early 19th-century Cherokee plantation home |
Chieftains Museum / Major Ridge Home | Rome | Floyd | Northwest | Historic house | 19th-century home of Cherokee chief Major Ridge |
Church-Waddel-Brumby House | Athens | Clarke | Historic Heartland | Historic house | website, serves as the Athens Welcome Center and 1820s house museum |
Coca-Cola Space Science Center | Columbus | Muscogee | Magnolia Midlands | Aerospace | website, space science and astronomy, includes Challenger Learning Center, the Omnisphere Theater and the Mead Observatory |
Colquitt County Arts Center | Moultrie | Colquitt | Plantation Trace | Art | website |
Columbus Black History Museum | Columbus | Muscogee | Presidential Pathways | African American | website |
Columbus Museum | Columbus | Muscogee | Presidential Pathways | Multiple | American art and regional culture and history |
Congregation Mickve Israel | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Jewish | 1733 synagogue and historic artifacts |
Consolidated Mine | Dahlonega | Lumpkin | Northeast | Mining | Underground tours of the former gold mine |
Crawford W. Long Museum | Jefferson | Jackson | 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 | Valdosta | Lowndes | Plantation Trace | Historic house | website |
Crime & Punishment Museum | Ashburn | Turner | Plantation Trace | Prison | information, information, former Turner County Jail |
Cumberland Island National Seashore Museum | St. Marys | Camden | Colonial Coast | Local history | Natural and cultural history of the island |
Currahee Military Museum | Toccoa | Stephens | 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 Gold Museum | Dahlonega | Lumpkin | Northeast | Mining | Includes artifacts and equipment from the 1836 gold rush |
Dauset Trails Nature Center | Jackson | Butts | Historic Heartland | Natural history | |
Davenport House Museum | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Historic house | 1820s period Isaiah Davenport House, operated by the Historic Savannah Foundation |
Decatur County Museum | Bainbridge | Decatur | Plantation Trace | Local history | website, seeking new location |
DeKalb History Center | Decatur | DeKalb | Metro Atlanta | Local history | website |
Dorchester Academy | Midway | Liberty | Colonial Coast | African American | Work by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Citizen Education Program in attaining equality for blacks in the American South |
Douglas County Museum of History and Art | Douglasville | Douglas | Metro Atlanta | Multiple | Local history, mid 20th-century culture, art and antiques |
Drummer Boy Museum | Andersonville | Sumter | Presidential Pathways | Military | website, Civil War uniforms, history and memorabilia |
Dublin-Laurens Museum | Dublin | Laurens | Magnolia Midlands | Local history | website, operated by the Laurens County Historical Society |
Eagle Tavern Welcome Center & Museum | Watkinsville | Oconee | Historic Heartland | Historic house | Early 19th-century period tavern |
East Point Historical Society Museum | East Point | Fulton | Colonial Coast | Local history | website |
Effingham Museum | Springfield | Effingham | Colonial Coast | Local history | website, operated by the Historic Effingham Society |
Elachee Nature Science Center | Gainesville | Hall | Northeast | Multiple | website, nature center with natural history and science exhibits |
Elberton Granite Museum | Elberton | Elbert | Historic Heartland | Industry | Website, granite quarrying and carving |
Elisha Winn House | Lawrenceville | Gwinnett | Metro Atlanta | Historic house | Operated by the Gwinnett Historical Society, early 19th-century house and outbuildings |
Emery Center | Dalton | Whitfield | Northwest | African American | website |
Erskine Caldwell Birthplace and Museum | Moreland | Coweta | Metro Atlanta | Biographical | 1903 period home of author Erskine Caldwell, may be closed, information |
Etowah Indian Mounds | Cartersville | Bartow | Northwest | Archaeological | Preserves three Mississippian culture mounds and museum with artifacts found at the site |
Euharlee History Museum | Euharlee | Bartow | Northwest | Local history | website |
Ezekiel Harris House | 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 |
First African Baptist Church | 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 |