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Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA
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Atlanta History Center

Atlanta History Center is a museum in Atlanta, GA, part of the Atlanta guide. Cost: $25 to $50.

130 West Paces Ferry Rd NW, Atlanta, GA 30305 · Atlanta, GA

Why you should go…

Thirty-three acres in Buckhead hold one of the Southeast's largest history museums, and the showstopper is the Battle of Atlanta cyclorama, a restored 1886 painting, longer than a football field, that wraps 360 degrees around you. Beyond the galleries, wander the 1928 Swan House mansion (a Hunger Games filming location), the Smith Farm, an 1860s-era farmstead anchored by Atlanta's oldest surviving farmhouse, and the Texas, the locomotive of Great Locomotive Chase fame. Gardens and woodland trails stitch the campus together.

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