Celebrate the state’s original inhabitants beginning with the Mississippian people and continuing with their descendants, the Creeks and the Cherokees.
Celebrates the contributions of the individuals whose bravery, perserverance, and commitment to equality changed the city of Atlanta and our nation.
Challenges visitors to consider their personal connections to a war that was literally fought in all of our backyards. Although the battlefields around Atlanta are gone, there are visible connections hiding in plain view: historic artifacts, dug relics, maps, photographs, monuments, and the Cyclorama, which is one of the world’s largest Civil War paintings.
