Science and Horticulture

The American Chestnut was so much a part of the American landscape for an estimated 40 million years, was made functionally extinct in forty. Atlanta History Center is looking to repair that.

Building housing the plant and botany exhibitions at the 1895 Cotton States Exposition in Piedmont Park.

A woman poses with a microscope used for determining tuberculosis test results at a health fair sponsored by the Atlanta Lung Association.

The National Park Service recognizes Atlanta as the most heavily forested urban area in the nation.

Through photographs, postcards, landscape plans, and manuscripts, Seeking Eden highlights the importance of historic gardens in Georgia.

The Entrance Gardens and 60-foot Tree Table are the newest additions to our campus and span eight acres, welcoming guests all year long.

Sustainability initiatives at Atlanta History Center.

Within steps of the Atlanta History Center Museum, reflect on the men and women who have served—and continue to serve—the United States of America.

Meander robust forest surrounding the Swan Woods Trail and consider yourself free to explore around the cabin.

East meets West in the plant world at the Sims Asian Garden.

An abundance of rhododendrons, small flowering trees, and eclectic ground covers.

Gardens of the spectacular Inman estate was designed by Philip Trammell Shutze from 1926-1928, the latter years of the Country Place Era.

Explore a variety of heirloom plants, flowers, and animal breeds at Smith Farm.

This native garden contains herbal medicinal plants, the mysterious lost camellia, quiet waterfalls, and what is Georgia’s largest native plant collection in one place—25 feet down.