Atlanta History Center
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(404) 814-4000
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www.atlantahistorycenter.com
Founded in 1926, the center includes the Atlanta History Museum featuring signature and traveling exhibitions, the Smith Family Farm, the 1928 Swan House mansion, research archives/special libraries, and 22 acres of gardens.
History on the Rocks: Gone with the Gin
Thursday May 1, 2025 05:00 PM EDT
Atlanta History Center
Cost: Not-Yet Member. $20.
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Join Atlanta History Center at our Midtown campus on Thursday, May 1 from 5-8 PM for an evening of fun and games for our second History on the Rocks! Grab a drink, wander through Telling Stories: Gone With the Wind and American Memory, or participate in a round of trivia for the chance to win limite...
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Ryan Hendrickson
Tuesday May 6, 2025 07:30 PM EDT
Atlanta History Center
Cost: Not-Yet Member. $12.
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Please note: this talk was originally scheduled for Monday, March 3rd. The new event date is Tuesday, May 6th.
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Cherokee Garden Library Celebrates 50 Years & Growing with Charlotte Moss
Wednesday May 7, 2025 07:00 PM EDT
Atlanta History Center
Cost: $150
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Please join us on Wednesday evening, May 7, 2025, to celebrate the Cherokee Garden Library—a growing collection of 40,000 rare and contemporary works telling the diverse and meaningful stories of people and plants that have shaped the Southeastern United States and beyond.
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Erika J. Simpson
Thursday May 8, 2025 07:00 PM EDT
Atlanta History Center
Cost: Not-Yet Members. $12.
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History on the Rocks: Gimlet Noir
Wednesday May 14, 2025 07:00 PM EDT
Atlanta History Center
Cost: Not-Yet Member. $20.
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Join Atlanta History Center at our Midtown campus on Thursday, May 14 from 7-10 PM for a lecture exploring NYC during its pivotal years in the early 1960s, when rising crime, blight, and dysfunction began menacing the city like never before.
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Marie Bostwick in conversation with Carolyn Curry
Wednesday May 14, 2025 07:00 PM EDT
Atlanta History Center
Cost: Not-Yet Members. $12.
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Whatever Dreams They Had: Film Screening and Discussion
Sunday May 18, 2025 03:00 PM EDT
Atlanta History Center
Cost: Reserve Your Free Ticket
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Join Atlanta History Center and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights for a film screening and panel discussion on filmmaker Stephanie Ayanian’s newest work, Whatever Dreams They Had. Admission is complimentary, but reservations are required.
This screening will take place in Kennedy Thea...
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Rick Atkinson
Thursday May 22, 2025 07:00 PM EDT
Atlanta History Center
Cost: Not-Yet Members. $12.
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Livingston Lecture featuring Becky Aikman
Tuesday June 3, 2025 07:00 PM EDT
Atlanta History Center
Cost: Not-Yet Members. $12.
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Elizabeth Musser
Wednesday June 4, 2025 07:00 PM EDT
Atlanta History Center
Cost: Not-Yet Member. $12.
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The Great Trick or Treat
Sunday October 27, 2024 02:00 PM EDT
Atlanta History Center
Cost: $35 for adults and children
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Celebrate Halloween with face painters, a strolling magician, a children’s ride on a train, and early trick-or-treating through the beautiful Atlanta History Center Buckhead campus! Members and their guests will have early access to all activities and a dedicated lounge in the Coca Cola Café.
Fami...
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The Great Trick or Treat
Sunday October 27, 2024 01:00 PM EDT
Atlanta History Center
Cost: $20-$35
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Celebrate Halloween with face painters, strolling magicians, a children's ride on a train, and early trick-or-treating through the beautiful Atlanta History Center's Buckhead campus!
Family-friendly costumes are encouraged!
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Kimberly Brock in conversation with Lynn Cullen
Wednesday October 23, 2024 07:00 PM EDT
Atlanta History Center
Cost: $6 members $12 not yet members
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1959. Reclusive painter Cleo Woodbine has lived alone for decades on Kingdom Come, a tiny strip of land once occupied by the servants for the great houses on nearby Cumberland. When she is visited by the man who saved her life nearly thirty years earlier, a tempest is unleashed as the stories of the...
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Crystal R. Sanders in conversation with Joe Crespino
Monday October 21, 2024 07:00 PM EDT
Atlanta History Center
Cost: $6 members $12 not yet members
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A Forgotten Migration tells the little-known story of "segregation scholarships" awarded by states in the US South to Black students seeking graduate education in the pre-Brown v. Board of Education era. Under the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, decades earlier, southern states could provide graduat...
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Brett Bannor
Sunday October 20, 2024 02:00 PM EDT
Atlanta History Center
Cost: Members $6, Not yet Members $12
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Why did Thomas Jefferson write that he would be happy if all dogs went extinct? What economic opportunity did attorney John Lord Hayes envision for the newly emancipated during Reconstruction? What American workers were mocked by Theodore Roosevelt as “morose, melancholy men”? What problems with rev...
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Cherokee Garden Library Event: Ashley Wright McIntyre Lecture featuring Sue Stuart-Smith
Wednesday October 16, 2024 07:00 PM EDT
Atlanta History Center
Cost: $25
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In a powerful combination of contemporary neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and storytelling, The Well-Gardened Mind explores the magic many gardeners have known for years"”working with nature can radically transform our health and well-being. Sue Stuart-Smith shares illuminating stories of people navig...
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Virginia Willis
Tuesday October 15, 2024 07:30 PM EDT
Atlanta History Center
Cost: $6 members $12 not yet members
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Featuring new recipes and photographs, this revised and updated edition of Virginia Willis's best-selling culinary classic also features new variations and commentary on the original recipes plus options using healthier ingredients. More than two hundred heritage and new recipes seamlessly blend int...
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David Greenberg
Wednesday October 9, 2024 07:00 PM EDT
Atlanta History Center
Cost: $6 members/$12 non-members
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Born into poverty in rural Alabama, Lewis would become second only to Martin Luther King, Jr. in his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. He was a Freedom Rider who helped to integrate bus stations in the South, a leader of the Nashville sit-in movement, the youngest speaker at the 1963 March...
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William Cope Moyers
Tuesday October 8, 2024 07:00 PM EDT
Atlanta History Center
Cost: $6 members/$12 non-members
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William Cope Moyers was a model of sober success. As his inspiring story of overcoming addiction was on its way to becoming a New York Times bestseller, everyone thought he had finally achieved the redemption promised by recovery—including him. But the perfect story that helped Moyers become a famou...
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Wright Thompson
Wednesday October 2, 2024 07:30 PM EDT
Atlanta History Center
Cost: $6 members $12 not yet members
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Wright Thompson's family farm in Mississippi is 23 miles from the site of one of the most notorious and consequential killings in American history, yet he had to leave the state for college before he learned the first thing about it. To this day, fundamental truths about the crime are widely unknown...
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Atlanta Cyclorama at Atlanta History Center
UPDATE: The Battle of Atlanta cyclorama painting was moved to the Atlanta History Center as part of a project announced in 2014. The old Cyclorama building in Grant Park has been remodeled as an event space and became part of the Atlanta Zoo.
At 358 feet long, the Cyclorama claims to be the larges...
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Atlanta History Center Gardens
Founded in 1926, the center includes the Atlanta History Museum featuring signature and traveling exhibitions, the 1845 Tullie Smith Farm, the 1928 Swan House mansion, research archives/special libraries and 33 acres of gardens. $10-$15.
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Margaret Mitchell House
The house where much of Gone with the Wind was written beckons to tourists and native Atlantans alike who want to understand more about the author of the most popular novel of all time. The house also plays an important part in keeping Atlanta's literary scene alive through regular events with local...
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Swan House at Atlanta History Center
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130 West Paces Ferry Road N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30305
(404) 814-4000
Atlanta, GA 30305
atlantahistorycenter.com
Tourist Attractions, History Museum
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Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Wednesday: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Thursday: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Friday: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Saturday: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Sunday: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
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Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, 130 West Paces Ferry Road N.W.