Signature Exhibitions

Turning Point: The American Civil War	Metropolitan Frontiers
Explore the most critical conflict in our nation’s history through one of the nation’s largest exhibitions on the Civil War featuring more than 1,500 original artifacts, photographs, dioramas, videos, and interactive components.	Travel from 1830s rural Georgia to the edge of the twenty-first century and trace the history of the city of Atlanta from a frontier railroad settlement to the capital of the South through hundreds of artifacts, documents, historic photographs, and video presentations.
Centennial Olympic Games Museum	Down the Fairway with Bobby Jones
Capture the Olympic spirit in one of the world’s most significant exhibitions on Olympic sport and history featuring artifacts, photographs, multimedia presentations, interactive displays, and America’s only complete collection of Olympic torches and medals.	Learn the inspiring story of American golf legend Robert Tyre “Bobby” Jones Jr. as well as the evolution of the world-famous Masters Tournament and the development of the modern game of golf.
Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South	Philip Trammell Shutze: Atlanta Classicist, Connoisseur, and Collector
Trace the unique and evolving character of Southern folk culture through handcrafted pottery, woodwork, basketry, weaving, quilting, metalwork, and oral and musical traditions.	View beautiful displays of porcelain, silver, furniture, rugs, and paintings from the personal decorative arts collection of Philip Trammell Shutze, the man once recognized as America’s greatest Classical architect.