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He was a major contributor to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History. In addition to making individual contributions, he led a fundraising drive which raised $43 million [1] for the museum. [1] The Museum's IMAX theater is named for Smith. [6] In 1985 Smith founded the Atlanta Falcons Youth Foundation. [7]
Fernbank Museum of Natural History, in Atlanta, Georgia, is a museum that presents exhibitions and programming about natural history. Fernbank Museum has a number of permanent exhibitions and regularly hosts temporary exhibitions in its expansive facility, designed by Graham Gund Architects.
In 2012 Fernbank Science Center was the recipient of a grant from Lockheed Martin which was used to refurbish the Jim Cherry Memorial Planetarium, and give the theater a technological upgrade bringing it into the 21st century and the digital age. A major component of technological upgrade is the fulldome/immersive projection system, produced by ...
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 ...
Among the adaptive uses was the Norwalk Maritime Center in Connecticut, a museum and aquarium project housed in a salvaged iron works complex, with a new IMAX theater. New institutional buildings included major structures for Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, MA, and for the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta.
Jim Cherry Memorial Planetarium at the Fernbank Science Center, Atlanta; Mark Smith Planetarium at the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon; Omnisphere Theater, Coca-Cola Challenger Space Science Center, Columbus State University, Columbus; Rollins Planetarium at Young Harris College, Young Harris
Center Stage is a mid-sized concert complex comprising three separate venues located in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally known as Theatre Atlanta, the concert hall was built in memorial to a young theater enthusiast. Upon its opening in the fall of 1966, the building functioned as a performing arts theater, but has since become primarily music-focused.
Jun. 25—ATLANTA — With another edition of the "Jurassic Park" series of feature films set to pack movie houses this summer, Fernbank Museum is doing a bit of paleontology digging of its own ...