Museums and Botanical Gardens

The Apex Museum presents history from an African American perspective in order to help all American and International visitors better understand and appreciate the contributions of African Americans to America as well as the world.

Location: 135 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta GA 30303

Telephone: (404) 523-2739

Web Site: www.apexmuseum.org

The mission of the Atlanta Botanical Garden is to develop and maintain plant collections for display, education, research, conservation and enjoyment.

Along with tours through the gardens, there are also many botanical classes available for both adults and children, special tours and events, professional staff to answer questions about your own garden, and botanical and orchid libraries.

Location: 1345 Piedmont Avenue NE, Atlanta GA 30309

Telephone: (404) 876-5859

Web Site: www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org

Home of the world's largest painting, "The Battle of Atlanta" and home of the historic Civil War locomotive, "TEXAS". Through spectacular music, art and sound effects, history comes alive as you step back to July 22, 1864 and become part of the battle.

Location: 800 Cherokee Ave. S.E., Atlanta GA 30315

Telephone: (404) 624-1071

Web Site: www.webguide.com/cyclorama.html

Beginning as a group of civic-minded Atlantans – led by prominent attorney Walter McElreath and meeting in each other’s homes, collecting early manuscripts and photos, and publishing research bulletins to “arouse in the citizens and friends of Atlanta an interest in history” – it has turned into a primary source of Atlanta, regional and national history.

Location: 130 West Paces Ferry Road NW, Atlanta GA 30305

Telephone: (404) 814-4000

Web Site: www.atlhist.org

The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum is part of the Presidential Library system administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, a Federal government agency.

Location: 441 Freedom parkway, Atlanta GA 30307

Telephone: (404) 865-7100

Web Site: www.jimmycarterlibrary.org

Open the door to a world of dinosaurs, artifacts, science interactives, shells, wildlife. IMAX films, and more! Permanent exhibitions include Giants of the Mesozioc, A Walk Through Time In Georgia, Sensing Nature, World of Shells, Reflections of Culture, First Georgians, and St. Catherines Island Collection.

Location: 767 Clifton Road, N.E., Atlanta GA 30307

Telephone: (404) 929-6400

Web Site: www.fernbank.edu/museum/

Hammonds House Museum presents quality programming to support its philosophic mission which is to preserve, exhibit, and increase public awareness about the contributions that visual artists of African decent continue to make to world culture.

Location: 503 Peeples Street, SW, Atlanta GA 30310

Telephone: (404) 752-0500

Web Site: www.hammondshouse.org

The High Museum of Art, founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association, is the leading art museum in the Southeastern United States. Located in Atlanta 's Midtown arts and business district, the High has over 11,000 works of art in its permanent collection.

Location: 1280 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta GA 30309

Telephone: (404) 733-4955

Web Site: www.high.org

The docent-led tour is a 60 to 90-minute experience with exclusive photographs and archival exhibits that tell the story of Margaret Mitchell beyond Gone With the Wind. The tour starts in our Visitors Center with "Before Scarlett: Girlhood Writings of Margaret Mitchell, 1907-1918." The tour continues into the house, through her apartment where she wrote Gone With the Wind, and finally to the Gone With the Wind Movie Museum.

Location: 990 Peachtree Street, Atlanta GA 30309

Telephone: (404) 249-7012

Web Site: www.gwtw.org