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404-814-4000 -- From
cotton fields to railroads, the Civil War to civil rights, you'll find
the real
story of Atlanta's past at the Atlanta History Center. Tour the
city's most exciting museum; the 83,000-square-foot Atlanta History Museum. You'll
learn how Atlanta grew into the South's leading city, about
African-American history, the Civil War, southern folk arts, "Gone With
the Wind", and relive Atlanta’s 1996 Olympic
glory with the new Centennial Olympic Games Museum opening July 2006,
and a
whole lot more. The story continues at two
houses on
the National Register of Historic Places: Swan House, an elegant 1928
mansion,
and newly restored Tullie
Smith Farm, with its 1840s plantation-plain house, outbuildings, and
farm animals. Visitors also enjoy 33
acres of
beautiful gardens and nature wooded trails.
Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center contains research
library/archives with manuscript and photo collections totaling 3.5
million
items (specialties include the Civil War, genealogy, decorative arts
and black
history; horticulture and landscape history are covered in the Cherokee Garden Library, also located in McElreath Hall). Kenan Research Center is open Tuesday –Saturday,
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM and is FREE to the public. Please visit www.AtlantaHistoryCenter.com
for
more information. The Center offers a Museum
Shop, Chik-fil-A at the
Coca-Cola
Cafe, Swan Coach House restaurant and a picnic area. ·
Metropolitan
Frontiers: Atlanta, 1835-2000 ·
Permanent
Indian
settlements, cotton fields, railroads, the Civil War, gGone With the
Wind," the Civil Rights Movement, CNN, the 1996 Olympic Games -
Atlanta's
story is a fascinating one. That story is told in this ground-breaking
exhibition with rare objects, hundreds of historic photographs, antique
clothing, original documents, video presentations and special areas for
hands-on exploration. Highlights include a bowl carved in a soapstone
boulder,
c. 1000 B.C.; an entire 1894 shotgun house moved frorn southwest
Atlanta; an
1898 horsedrawn fire engine with a stearn-driven pump used by the
Atlanta fire
department in the city's tragic 1917 fire; a 1920 Hanson car built in
Atlanta
and one of only two in existence; a scale model of the Tom Moreland
Interchange
at the intersection of I-285 and I-85, known as iSpaghetti Junction";
and
more. The exhibition also points visitors to historic sites in the city
(including some at the Center itself) for further exploration. The
exhibition
was awarded a 1993 ACOG Cultural Olympiad Regional Designation Award in
the
Arts and is funded in part by grants from the National Endowment for
the
Humanities and by the Georgia Council for the Arts and the Georgia
Humanities
Council through the Georgia Folklife Prograrn. ·
Turning
Point:
The American Civil War (DuBose Gallery) ·
Permanent
The
Civil War changed America as no other event in its history. It
completed the
formation of the United States, defined tne basic role of the Federal
government and set the young nation on a patn toward social and
political
equality. Tnis award-winning, permanent exhibition explores this
bturning point"
in American history. The visitor views the war through the eyes of the
soldiers
who fought and endured many hardships, as well as through the eyes of
civilians
back home. It also exarnines the political and social motives of the
Union and
the Confederacy, and how they changed during the course of the war. The
final
section focuses on how the country, in an effort to heal, searched for
meaning
in a war during which nearly 700,000 people were killed -two percent of
the
total population of the country and more than the total number of
Americans
killed in all other wars combined, up to the Vietnam War. "Turning
Point" features more than 1,200 objects, primarily from the renowned
DuBose Civil War Collection, and also from the Thomas Swift Dickey
Civil War
Ordnance Collection and other holdings. The displays include the
Confederate
States flag that flew over Atlanta at the time of its capture, a
Federal supply
wagon used by Sherman's army, uniforms, weapons, artillery gun tubes,
soldiers'
personal items, letters, diaries, medical equipment, a civilian
overcoat and
hat, veterans' memorabilia and more. The DuBose Gallery is made
possible by a
gift from Mrs. Beverly M. DuBose Jr. The exhibition is also sponsored
by Mr.
and Mrs. W. Barrett Howell and Wachovia Bank of Georgia The
installation of
"Turning Point" was supported by Balentine & Company. ·
Shaping
Traditions: Folk
Arts
in a Changing South (Goizueta Folklife Gallery) ·
Permanent
Shaping
Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South" traces the unique and
evolving
attributes of southern folk culture through antique and contemporary
objects as
well as oral and musical traditions. The exhibition shows how people
have
relied on tradition to meet their needs and how utility can combine
with
inspiration to create art out of everyday life. Developed from the
Atlanta
History Center's John A. Burrison Folklife Collection, the exhibition
features
500 examples of handcrafted pottery, woodwork, basketry, weaving,
quilting and
metalwork, and explores the lives of several master folk artists. A few
of the
highlighted artists are potter Lanier Meaders, the Hewell family of
potters,
chair maker Walter Shelnut, Cherokee basket maker Lucille Lossiah, the
Reeves
family of basket makers, story quilter Harriet Powers and blacksmith
Philip
Simmons. This exhibition examines the meaning of art and artistry in
everyday
life, as distinct from the fine arts contexts that most people
associate with
the term. Two audio theaters present a variety of songs, preaching
styles and
narratives that relate to particular southern environments, including,
Okefenokee Swamp tall tales, a Creek Indian stomp-dance chant and blues
by
ZBlind" Willie McTell and Gertrude ZMa" Rainey. The Goizueta Folklife
Gallery is made possible by a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Roberto C.
Goizueta in
memory of their son, Carlos Alberto Goizueta This exhibition is
sponsored in
part by grants from the Ford Motor Company, the Woodward Fund and the
National
Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. ·
Centennial Olympic Games Museum at the Atlanta History Center ·
Permanent The 1996 Centennial
Olympic Games changed Atlanta forever. In a spectacular
collection of multimedia presentations, artifacts, images and
interactive
displays, the Centennial Olympic Games Museum at the Atlanta History
Center
houses one of the most significant exhibitions on Olympic sport and
history
ever to be presented in the United States. Displays of original
memorabilia,
including posters, medals and the only complete collection of Olympic
torches
in the country, which date back to the 1936 Berlin Games, tell the story of
the modern Olympics since 1896. A collection of 6,000 treasured
artifacts
including athletes’ uniforms, costumes and props from the Olympic Games
ceremonies, venue drawings, commemorative game pins and medals capture
the
excitement of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games. A special area focuses
on the
16 days of competition in Atlanta where visitors learn about the
Olympic
Village, the sports venues, Opening and Closing ceremonies, the
Cultural
Olympiad, Centennial Olympic Park, souvenir madness, visiting
dignitaries, the
tragic day of terrorism, and so much more. And an accompanying video
salutes
the more than 47,000 volunteers that made the 1996 Centennial Olympic
Games
possible. In the middle of the exhibit, a soaring space two-stories
high is
surrounded by five large columns modeled after the light towers at Atlanta’s Centennial
Olympic Park. Between the columns, a series of flat screens plays The Centennial Olympic Games Experience,
a
stirring multimedia presentation that captures the spirit and emotion
of the Atlanta Games. The interactive Sports Lab
on the second level invites children and
adults to test their strength and skill against those of the world’s
greatest athletes. An assisted long jump allows visitors to safely jump
off from
a starting line to a “sand track” over eight meters away and
side-by-side sculls provide the experience of racing against an Olympic
record
while mastering the rhythm of rowing. In the cycling recreation,
visitors mount
a stationary bike and get a feel for the skill and stamina required to
cycle a
mountain bike up a steep hill. After exploring the exhibition, visitors
can
test their Olympic knowledge in an interactive game, before standing on
the
victory platform with graphic backdrops, gold, silver and bronze
medals,
presentation trays, and victor’s bouquets as their name appears on a
scoreboard. ·
Open
Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; ·
Sunday,
noon-5:30
p.m. ·
(ticket
sales
stop at 4:30 p.m. daily, 3 hours minimum are recommended to tour the
entire
Center). ·
The
Center is
closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christrnas Day and New Year's
Day; and
open noon-5:30 p.m. Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day.
Library/archives closes daily at 5 p.m.; closed Sunday. The
library/archives is
closed Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day,
Christmas
Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Day. General
admission is all-inclusive and includes
all permanent and traveling exhibitions,
historic houses, gardens
and trails, Kenan Research Center. $15 for adults, $12 for students
13+
and senior citizens 65+, $12 for youths 4-12 and free for children 3
and under. Atlanta History Center members are admitted for FREE. http://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/template.cfm?cid=540 Directions By MARTA: From
the
Buckhead Financial Center or Lenox rail station, take Bus #23 south to
the
intersection of Peachtree and West Paces Ferry Roads; walk west on West
Paces
Ferry Road past the second traffic light (Slaton Drive) to the
pedestrian
entrance. Driving: Going north on
I-75 from
downtown, take the West Paces Ferry Road exit and turn left at end of
the ramp
onto Northside Parkway. Turn right at the next intersection onto West
Paces
Ferry Road. Going south on I-75 from Marietta, take the West Paces
Ferry Road
exit and turn left at the end of the ramp onto West Paces Ferry Road.
Once on
West Paces Ferrv Road, continue east for 2.6 miles, pass the Center and
turn
right onto Slaton Drive. The Center entrance is on the right. Accessibility The Atlanta
History
Museum and McElreath Hall are accessible to people with disabilities.
Paved and
unpaved pathways pass through the Center's gardens and lead to Swan
House and
Tullie Smith Farm. Large-print reading materials are available for some
exhibitions in the Atlanta History Museum. All video presentations at
the
Atlanta History Center are subtitled. Visitor maps are available in
English,
French, German, Spanish and Japanese.
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TTY: Statement of Purpose:
Highlights & Collections:
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Admission & Directions:
Group Rates Group rates are available
for groups of 15 or more adults or 10 or more children. Group
reservations must
be made at least two weeks in advance to receive the group rate and
ensure the
availability of desired activities. To schedule or for more
information, call
the Group Tour
Sales Manager at (404) 814-4062. To schedule or for more information
about
school groups, call the school programs scheduler at (404) 814-4062. Key Personnel:
Leigh
Massey, Manager of
Marketing Communications
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