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Atlanta ‘96 considers the impact of the Games on the city and our lives.

Atlanta History Center has created an online toolkit to help put Confederate monuments in historical perspective and foster dialogue about the future of these monuments.

Cyclorama: The Big Picture experience is a painting of the Battle of Atlanta which rises 49 feet, stretches 371 feet (longer than a football field) and weighs 10,000 pounds.

The Atlanta History Center offers multi-disciplinary and interactive guided tours for students of all ages that are educational and fun.

Fair Play: The Bobby Jones Story focuses on the character and achievement of the man considered the most important golfer in the history of the sport.

Gatherround explores the city’s history through stories of individuals who created the Atlanta we know today.

Goizueta Gardens at the Atlanta History Center is a 33-acre landscape encompassing nine cultivated gardens and preserved woodland.

The 42,000-square-foot James G. Kenan Research Center is the free & open-to-the-public archives and library of the Atlanta History Center.

Atlanta History Center offers a variety of programs for young visitors.

The restored locomotive Texas is the cornerstone of the Atlanta History Center permanent exhibition Locomotion: Railroads and the Making of Atlanta.

The exhibition Mandarin Shutze: A Chinese Export Life gives you an idea of what architect Philip Trammell Shutze collected and the life he lived.

Immerse yourself in the world of art, music and ceremony of the Muscogee (Creeks) and Cherokees in Native Lands: Indians and Georgia, an Atlanta History Center exhibition on an extended run.

Hailing from Murder Creek, Georgia-born decorator Ruby Ross Wood had professional connections with architect Philip Shutze and the Inman family, leading her to decorate Swan House, Buckhead’s crown jewel. 

Open your eyes to the changing role of folk art as it influences Southern culture.

Smith Farm tells the story of Georgia farm life and enslavement at Atlanta’s oldest surviving farmhouse

Designed by architect Philip Trammel Shutze, Swan House and its gardens are considered by many as his finest residential work.

Turning Point: The American Civil War features more than 1,400 objects, primarily from the renowned DuBose Civil War Collection, as well as pieces from the Thomas Swift Dickey Civil War Ordnance Collection and other holdings.

Wood Family Cabin is noteworthy as an example of a log structure constructed during the time this area of North Georgia was the frontier.