What to Do In Atlanta

The High Museum of Art is Atlanta's premier art museum.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, on Bennett St. in South Buckhead, features modern photography, prints & sculpture.
The Museum of Design Atlanta is downtown, in the Marquis II office tower.
The Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University isn't officially in Atlanta, but this museum has an excellent collection of Greek & Egyptian antiquities--and Emory is just a few miles east of Midtown.
The Fernbank Museum of Natural History is also just east of Midtown, Atlanta, but includes an IMAX theater & hosts fascinating collections of gemstones & textiles.
The Fernbank Science Center is just a mile or so from its sister museum, and is the original location of the museum. Attached to the science center are an observatory and planetarium.
The Robert C. Williams Paper Museum features artifacts and books on papermaking.
The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum is also just outside of Midtown, and along with its resident collection of Carter records, hosts travelling exhibits of Presidential memorabilia.
The King Center celebrates the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philosophy of non-violent change, and the history of civil rights in the U.S.

Piedmont Park is Atlanta's & Midtown's greatest park, with a variety of environments to soothe the urban resident.
Centennial Olympic Park is a legacy of Atlanta's 1996 hosting of the Olympics, and features an Olympic-rings fountain which invites playing.
Grant Park is the site of the Zoo & the Cyclorama, and a very naturalistic city park, one of Atlanta's oldest.
Freedom Park is Atlanta's newest park, and is the legacy of a successful neighborhoods' fight against a new highway.
Fernbank Forest is a nature preserve tucked in between Atlanta and neighboring Decatur.
...and any number of other, smaller parks tucked throughout the city.

The Georgia Aquarium is less than a mile from the southern end of Midtown Atlanta, and for the moment is the largest aquarium in the world.
Zoo Atlanta is in the Grant Park neighborhood, and hosts in it's surprisingly small footprint an incredible troup of silverback gorillas, a pair of giant pandas & their newborn baby panda.
The Atlanta Cyclorama is a nearly unique example of an enormous cylindrical painting paired with a diorama displaying in the round the Civil War Battle of Atlanta.
The World of Coca-Cola is next door to the Aquarium.
CNN Center is one of the top attractions in Atlanta, and you can tour the studios.

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