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From Olivier Gabet’s viewpoint, the future of museums amounts to one thing: freedom. “[Museums are] a place of freedom and freedom is something that we definitely need today. And it is the ...
Cover of Georgia History Today, Volume 11, Number 1. The society also publishes a newsmagazine, Georgia History Today, for its members that focuses on popular subjects in promoting history around the state. Headlines is the biweekly newsletter of the Georgia Historical Society and can be subscribed to through the website at www.georgiahistory.com
This list of museums in Atlanta is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing ...
The Atlanta History Center is a history museum and research center located in the Buckhead district of Atlanta, Georgia. The Museum was founded in 1926, and has a large campus featuring historic gardens and houses, including Swan House , Smith Farm , and Wood Family Cabin.
Attempts to alter the way Black history is taught would “make it near impossible to describe the daily events during the era of slavery or during the Civil Rights Movement,” writes Larry Fennelly.
Lowery met with Mayor Shirley Franklin in 2001, who was warm to the concept of a museum honoring Atlanta's civil rights history, but due to more pressing issues with the city's finances, the mayor was unable to help much. [2] The group met again in 2005, at which time the mayor signed onto the project, making the center to be established in ...
The weekend of Feb. 9 through 11 celebrates all things Georgia history as part of the Georgia Historical Society's Georgia History Festival.. On Friday, the state's school children will examine ...
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