# List of museums in Georgia (U.S. state)

This list of museums in Georgia contains museums which are 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. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

## Museums

See List of museums in Atlanta for museums within the city limits of Atlanta and the immediately adjacent communities of Druid Hills and Hapeville, which are located in Fulton County.
To use the sortable table, click on the icons at the top of each column to sort that column in alphabetical order; click again for reverse alphabetical order. The numbers in the "Regions" column refers to the state government's list of regions, described in a separate section below.
| Name | Town/city | County | Region | Type | Notes |
| 6th Cavalry Museum | Fort Oglethorpe | Catoosa | Northwest | Military | website |
| A. H. Stephens State Historic Park Confederate Museum | Crawfordville | Taliaferro | Classic South | Multiple | Includes the Victorian period Liberty Hall, and an American Civil War museum |
| Adairsville Depot History Museum | Adairsville | Bartow | Northwest | Railroad | information |
| Albany Civil Rights Institute | Albany | Dougherty | Plantation Trace | History / African American | website, history of the Albany Movement |
| Albany Museum of Art | Albany | Dougherty | Plantation Trace | Art | Includes African, European, and American art |
| Allman Brothers Band Museum | Macon | Bibb | Historic Heartland | Music | History of The Allman Brothers Band |
| Altama Museum of Art and History | Vidalia | Toombs | Magnolia Midlands | Art | information, collection includes Staffordshire porcelain, quadruped prints by John James Audubon, Southern art, bird prints, botanical art, wooden sculptures and a Girl Scout room |
| Andalusia | Milledgeville | Baldwin | Historic Heartland | Historic house | 19th house of author Flannery O'Connor |
| Andersonville National Historic Site | Andersonville | Macon | Presidential Pathways | Military | Site of largest Confederate military prison during the American Civil War and National Prisoner of War Museum |
| Andrew Low House | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Historic house | website, 19th-century period home of Girl Scouts of the USA founder Juliette Gordon Low, operated by The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia |
| Archibald Smith Plantation Home | Roswell | Fulton | Metro Atlanta | Historic house | 19th-century plantation with two-story farm house, slave quarters, cook house, corn crib, barn, carriage house, well, and spring house |
| Arthur Moore Methodist Museum | St. Simons Island | Glynn | Colonial Coast | Religious | History of Methodism, artifacts of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, located at Epworth by the Sea |
| Ashley Slater House | Douglas | Coffee | Magnolia Midlands | Historic house | information, tourist information center and museum |
| Athens Institute for Contemporary Art | Athens | Clarke | Historic Heartland | Art | Hosts three exhibitions a year of contemporary art, centering on politically and socially engaged themes |
| Augusta Canal National Heritage Area Discovery Center | Augusta | Richmond | Classic South | Multiple | History of the canal, textile mills along the canal, mill workers, hydroelectricity, canal boat toursa |
| Augusta Museum of History | Augusta | Richmond | Classic South | Local history | |
| Autrey Mill Nature Preserve and Heritage Center | Johns Creek | Fulton | Metro Atlanta | Open air | Nature preserve, heritage village, farm museum, live animals and dioramas |
| Averitt Center for the Arts | Statesboro | Bulloch | Magnolia Midlands | Art | website, include exhibit galleries |
| Barrow County Museum | Winder | Barrow | Historic Heartland | Local history | Facebook, located inside a historic jail |
| Barrington Hall | Roswell | Fulton | Metro Atlanta | Historic house | 19th-century period home |
| Bartow History Museum | Cartersville | Bartow | Northwest | Local history | Displays include settlement, Cherokee life and removal, Civil War strife, and lifestyles of years past |
| Beach Institute of African American Culture | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Art | Facebook site, African-American art, folk art and culture |
| Bedingfield Inn | Lumpkin | Stewart | Presidential Pathways | Historic site | information, mid-19th-century period inn |
| Bellevue | LaGrange | Troup | Presidential Pathways | Historic house | 1850s Greek Revival mansion |
| Beulah Rucker Museum and Education Center | Gainesville | Hall | Northeast | African American | website, African-American heritage in Gainesville and north Georgia |
| Blackbridge Gallery | Milledgeville | Baldwin | Historic Heartland | Art | website, part of Georgia College & State University |
| Blue and Gray Museum | Fitzgerald | Ben Hill | Magnolia Midlands | Local history | Located in a historic railroad depot, area history during the Civil War |
| Booth Western Art Museum | Cartersville | Bartow | Northwest | Art | Contemporary American Western art, Civil War art, Presidential letters and portraits |
| Boyhood Home of President Woodrow Wilson | Augusta | Richmond | Classic South | Historic house | 1860s period boyhood home of President Woodrow Wilson |
| Brenau University Galleries | Gainesville | Hall | Northeast | Art | website, includes three galleries in different locations |
| Brown House Museum | Sandersville | Washington | Northeast | Local history | website, operated by the Washington County Historical Society |
| Bulloch Hall | Roswell | Fulton | Metro Atlanta | Historic house | 19th-century period home |
| Burke County Museum | Waynesboro | Burke | Classic South | Local history | information, open by appointment |
| Cairo Antique Auto Museum | Cairo | Grady | Plantation Trace | Automotive | information, information, antique cars, bicycles and motorbikes from the 1900 era, open the first Saturday of each month |
| Callaway Plantation | Washington | Wilkes | Classic South | Open air | Features several historic houses and structures |
| Candler Field Museum | Griffin | Spalding | Metro Atlanta | history | website, Candler Field Museum is a replica of the old Atlanta Airport as it existed in the late 1920s and early 30s. |
| Cannonball House | Macon | Bibb | Historic Heartland | Historic house | 1853 Greek Revival house with Civil War museum, furnishings and decorative piece of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority, a recreation of the Philomathean Society room at Wesleyan College |
| Carnegie Center | Fitzgerald | Ben Hill | Magnolia Midlands | Art | website, changing exhibits, operated by the Fitzgerald Ben Hill Arts Council, located in a former Carnegie Library |
| Carter-Coile Doctors Museum | Winterville | Clarke | Historic Heartland | Medical | website, country doctor's house and office |
| Cedartown Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia | Cedartown | Polk | Northwest | Local history | website, open only Thursdays to Saturdays |
| Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center | Mansfield | Newton | Historic Heartlands | Natural history | Nature preserve with exhibits on wildlife and hunting |
| Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park | Chickamauga | Walker | Historic High Country | Military | Museum and site of the Battle of Chickamauga during the American Civil War |
| Chief Vann House Historic Site | Chatsworth | Murray | Historic High Country | Historic house | Early 19th-century Cherokee plantation home |
| Chieftains Museum / Major Ridge Home | Rome | Floyd | Northwest | Historic house | 19th-century home of Cherokee chief Major Ridge |
| Church-Waddel-Brumby House | Athens | Clarke | Historic Heartland | Historic house | website, serves as the Athens Welcome Center and 1820s house museum |
| Coca-Cola Space Science Center | Columbus | Muscogee | Magnolia Midlands | Aerospace | website, space science and astronomy, includes Challenger Learning Center, the Omnisphere Theater and the Mead Observatory |
| Colquitt County Arts Center | Moultrie | Colquitt | Plantation Trace | Art | website |
| Columbus Black History Museum | Columbus | Muscogee | Presidential Pathways | African American | website |
| Columbus Museum | Columbus | Muscogee | Presidential Pathways | Multiple | American art and regional culture and history |
| Congregation Mickve Israel | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Jewish | 1733 synagogue and historic artifacts |
| Consolidated Mine | Dahlonega | Lumpkin | Northeast | Mining | Underground tours of the former gold mine |
| Crawford W. Long Museum | Jefferson | Jackson | Northeast | Medical | website, life and career of Dr. Crawford Long, and his use of sulfuric ether to provide "painless surgery" |
| The Crescent at Valdosta Garden Center | Valdosta | Lowndes | Plantation Trace | Historic house | website |
| Crime & Punishment Museum | Ashburn | Turner | Plantation Trace | Prison | information, information, former Turner County Jail |
| Cumberland Island National Seashore Museum | St. Marys | Camden | Colonial Coast | Local history | Natural and cultural history of the island |
| Currahee Military Museum | Toccoa | Stephens | Northeast | Military | website, operated by the Stephens County Historical Society, history of Camp Toccoa at Currahee Mountain in WWII, located in the Toccoa (Amtrak station) |
| Dahlonega Gold Museum | Dahlonega | Lumpkin | Northeast | Mining | Includes artifacts and equipment from the 1836 gold rush |
| Dauset Trails Nature Center | Jackson | Butts | Historic Heartland | Natural history | |
| Davenport House Museum | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Historic house | 1820s period Isaiah Davenport House, operated by the Historic Savannah Foundation |
| Decatur County Museum | Bainbridge | Decatur | Plantation Trace | Local history | website, seeking new location |
| DeKalb History Center | Decatur | DeKalb | Metro Atlanta | Local history | website |
| Dorchester Academy | Midway | Liberty | Colonial Coast | African American | Work by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Citizen Education Program in attaining equality for blacks in the American South |
| Douglas County Museum of History and Art | Douglasville | Douglas | Metro Atlanta | Multiple | Local history, mid 20th-century culture, art and antiques |
| Drummer Boy Museum | Andersonville | Sumter | Presidential Pathways | Military | website, Civil War uniforms, history and memorabilia |
| Dublin-Laurens Museum | Dublin | Laurens | Magnolia Midlands | Local history | website, operated by the Laurens County Historical Society |
| Eagle Tavern Welcome Center & Museum | Watkinsville | Oconee | Historic Heartland | Historic house | Early 19th-century period tavern |
| East Point Historical Society Museum | East Point | Fulton | Colonial Coast | Local history | website |
| Effingham Museum | Springfield | Effingham | Colonial Coast | Local history | website, operated by the Historic Effingham Society |
| Elachee Nature Science Center | Gainesville | Hall | Northeast | Multiple | website, nature center with natural history and science exhibits |
| Elberton Granite Museum | Elberton | Elbert | Historic Heartland | Industry | Website, granite quarrying and carving |
| Elisha Winn House | Lawrenceville | Gwinnett | Metro Atlanta | Historic house | Operated by the Gwinnett Historical Society, early 19th-century house and outbuildings |
| Emery Center | Dalton | Whitfield | Northwest | African American | website |
| Erskine Caldwell Birthplace and Museum | Moreland | Coweta | Metro Atlanta | Biographical | 1903 period home of author Erskine Caldwell, may be closed, information |
| Etowah Indian Mounds | Cartersville | Bartow | Northwest | Archaeological | Preserves three Mississippian culture mounds and museum with artifacts found at the site |
| Euharlee History Museum | Euharlee | Bartow | Northwest | Local history | website |
| Ezekiel Harris House | Augusta | Richmond | Classic South | Historic house | website, operated by the Augusta Museum of History, 18th-century period house |
| Firehouse Center and Gallery | Bainbridge | Decatur | Plantation Trace | Art | website, gallery of the Bainbridge-Decatur County Arts Council |
| First African Baptist Church | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | History | Tours of the historic black Baptist church and artifacts dating to the 18th century |
| Fitzgerald Fire Engine Museum | Fitzgerald | Ben Hill | Magnolia Midlands | Firefighting | website |
| Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Historic house | 1920s-1930s period home of author Flannery O'Connor |
| Flowery Branch Historic Depot and Caboose | Flowery Branch | Hall | Northeast | Railroad | information |
| Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia | Sautee Nacoochee | White | Northeast | Art | website |
| Fort Frederica National Monument | St. Simons Island | Glynn | Colonial Coast | Military | Visitor center with archaeological artifacts and exhibits about the 18th-century fort and town |
| Fort Gaines Frontier Village | Fort Gaines | Clay | Plantation Trace | Open air | website |
| Fort Hollingsworth-White House | Alto | Banks | Northeast | Historic house | Frontier fort house and outbuildings |
| Fort King George Historical Site | Darien | McIntosh | Colonial Coast | Military | Reconstructed 1736 fort and museum |
| Fort McAllister Historic Park | Keller | Bryan | Colonial Coast | Military | Civil War earthwork fortification and museum |
| Fort Morris Historic Site | Midway | Liberty | Colonial Coast | Military | American Revolutionary fort site and museum |
| Fort Pulaski National Monument | Tybee Island | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Military | Civil War fort and museum with weekend living history demonstrations |
| Fort Stewart Museum | Fort Stewart | Liberty | Colonial Coast | Military | website, history of the Fort Stewart Military Reservation |
| Foxfire Museum & Heritage Center | Mountain City | Rabun | Northeast | Open air | website |
| Funk Heritage Center | Waleska | Cherokee | Northwest | Native American | Part of Reinhardt University, Native American art, artifacts and culture, and open air Appalachian Settlement |
| Geechee Kunda | Riceboro | Liberty | Colonial Coast | African American | website, culture of the Gullah, local and African art, textiles, tools, utensils, implements, crafts and essentials |
| Georgia College Museum | Milledgeville | Baldwin | Historic Heartland | Multiple | website, changing exhibits of art and history, permanent exhibit on Flannery O'Connor |
| Georgia College Natural History Museum | Milledgeville | Baldwin | Historic Heartland | Natural history | website, features dinosaurs, fossils, earth sciences and a planetarium |
| Georgia Cotton Museum | Vienna | Dooly | Presidential Pathways | Industry - cotton | information, cotton farming |
| Georgia Museum of Agriculture & Historic Village | Tifton | Tift | Plantation Trace | Living | Five areas: a traditional farm community of the 1870s, an 1890s progressive farmstead, an industrial sites complex, rural town, Peanut Museum, and the Georgia Museum of Agriculture Center |
| Georgia Museum of Art | Athens | Clarke | Historic Heartland | Art | The official state museum of art, part of the University of Georgia |
| Georgia Museum of Natural History | Athens | Clarke | Historic Heartland | Natural history | Part of the University of Georgia |
| Georgia Racing Hall of Fame Museum | Dawsonville | Dawson | Northwest | Automotive | website, stock cars, includes memorabilia and cars of Bill Elliott |
| Georgia Radio Museum and Hall of Fame | St. Marys | Camden | Georgia's Coast | Media | History of radio broadcasting in Georgia, plus Georgia Radio Inductee Wall of Fame |
| Georgia Rural Telephone Museum | Leslie | Sumter | Magnolia Midlands | Technology | Antique telephones and telephone memorabilia |
| Georgia Salzburger Society Museum | Rincon | Effingham | Colonial Coast | History | website, history of the descendants of the Salzburg refugees who settled in Georgia after their expulsion in 1734 |
| Georgia Southern Museum | Statesboro | Bulloch | Magnolia Midlands | Multiple | Natural history and dinosaur exhibits, science, local history, part of Georgia Southern University |
| Georgia Southern University Center for Art and Theatre | Statesboro | Bulloch | Magnolia Midlands | Art | Includes three galleries, one of which is the permanent home for The Georgia Artists Collection |
| Georgia Sports Hall of Fame | Macon | Bibb | Historic Heartland | Sports | |
| Georgia State Railroad Museum | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Railroad | Operated by the Coastal Heritage Society, historic railcars and rolling stock, operational turntable |
| Georgia Veterans State Park | Cordele | Crisp | Presidential Pathways | Military | |
| Georgia's Old Capital Museum | Milledgeville | Baldwin | Historic Heartland | Local history | Located in the building where Georgia's legislators voted to secede from the Union |
| Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art | Augusta | Richmond | Classic South | Art | |
| Gilmer Arts Gallery | Ellijay | Gilmer | Northwest | Local history | website, operated by the Gilmer Arts and Heritage Association |
| Girl Scout First Headquarters | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Scouting | website, located in former carriage house of Girl Scouts of the USA founder Juliette Gordon Low |
| Glennville-Tattnall Museum | Glennville | Tattnall | Magnolia Midlands | Local history | website |
| Global Village & Discovery Center | Americus | Sumter | Presidential Pathways | Open air | website, Habitat for Humanity site with Habitat houses from countries around the world that show life in poverty |
| Go Fish Education Center | Perry | Houston | Historic Heartland | Multiple | website, operated by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Georgia's watersheds and aquatic wildlife, their natural habitats and the impacts of water pollution, fishing, boating, fish hatcheries |
| Gordon-Lee Mansion | Chickamauga | Walker | Northwest | Historic house | Mid-19th-century house with many historic associations |
| Green-Meldrim House | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Historic house | Mid-19th-century house |
| Greene County Museum | Greensboro | Greene | Classic South | Local history | information, operated by the Greene County Historical Society |
| Griffin Museum | Griffin | Spalding | Presidential Pathways | Local history | information |
| Grovetown Museum | Grovetown | Columbia | Classic South | Local history | information |
| Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center | Buford | Gwinnett | Metro Atlanta | Science and history | Focus on the environment, also operates the Gwinnett History Museum in Lawrenceville and a restored 1930s farm in Duluth |
| Hamburg State Park | Mitchell | Washington | Classic South | Mill | Includes a working grist mill and a museum with agriculture equipment and tools |
| Hamilton House | Dalton | Whitfield | Northwest | Multiple | information, exhibits include chenille bedspreads, items and tufting artifacts, Civil War artifacts, antiques, open by appointment with the Whitfield-Murray Historical Society |
| Hamilton Plantation Slave Cabins | St. Simons Island | Glynn | Colonial Coast | Historic house | Two tabby slave cabins operated by the Cassina Garden Club, located at Gascoigne Bluff |
| Harris Art Center | Calhoun | Gordon | Northwest | Multiple | website, includes art galleries and the Roland Hayes Museum, about the first African-American classical singer to have an international career on the concert and operatic stages |
| Hazlehurst-Jeff Davis Historical Museum | Hazlehurst | Jeff Davis | Magnolia Midlands | Local history | information |
| Heard County Historical Center & Museum | Franklin | Heard | Presidential Pathways | Local history | Located in a former jail, operated by the Heard County Historical Society |
| Heritage Hall (Madison, Georgia) | Madison | Morgan | Historic Heartland | Historic house | website |
| Heritage Sandy Springs Museum | Sandy Springs | Fulton | Metro Atlanta | Historic house | website, includes 19th-century Williams-Payne House and outbuildings, operated by Heritage Sandy Springs |
| Heritage Station Museum | Douglas | Coffee | Magnolia Midlands | Local history | information |
| Hickory Hill | Thomson | McDuffie | Classic South | Historic house | Early 20th-century period home of Georgia Populist Party co-founder Thomas E. Watson |
| Hills and Dales Estate | LaGrange | Troup | Presidential Pathways | Historic house | 1916 estate and gardens of Fuller Callaway, designed by Neel Reid |
| Historic Railroad Shops | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Railroad | Railroad trains and street cars |
| Historic Seabrook Village | Midway | Liberty | Colonial Coast | Open air | Facebook site, includes over a dozen buildings representing rural coastal African American life after the Civil War |
| Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation Historic Site | Brunswick | Glynn | Colonial Coast | Historic house | 19th-century rice plantation slave cabins |
| Holliday-Dorsey-Fife House Museum | Fayetteville | Fayette | Metro Atlanta | Local history | Includes Gone With the Wind and Civil War memorabilia |
| Howard Finster Vision House | Summerville | Chattooga | Northwest | Art | website, house and museum of visionary artist Howard Finster, open by appointment |
| Hudgens Center for the Arts | Duluth | Gwinnett | Metro Atlanta | Art | website, officially the Jacqueline Casey Hudgens Center for the Arts |
| Hurn Museum | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Art | Contemporary folk art |
| Indian Springs Hotel Museum | Indian Springs | Butts | Historic Heartland | Local history | Tours of the ante-bellum mineral springs hotel |
| Indian Springs State Park | Flovilla | Butts | Historic Heartland | Local history | Park features a seasonal museum with exhibits on the Creek Nation, the CCC and local history |
| Interactive Neighborhood for Kids | Gainesville | Hall | Northeast | Children's | website |
| Jack Hadley Black History Museum | Thomasville | Thomas | Plantation Trace | African American | website, black history memorabilia |
| James Longstreet Museum | Gainesville | Hall | [[James Longstreet | Confederate General | civil rights activist | Minister to the Ottoman Empire | www.longstreet.org | www.longstreet.org |
| Janice Persons Biggers House | Columbus | Muscogee | Presidential Pathways | Historic house | website, 19th-century period home and offices of Historic Columbus, also known as 700 Broadway |
| Jarrell Plantation Historic Site | Juliette | Monroe | Historic Heartland | Historic house | 19th-century cotton plantation farm with outbuildings |
| Jefferson Davis Memorial Historic Site | Irwinville | Irwin | Magnolia Midlands | History | Jefferson Davis Memorial Museum at site where Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured in 1865 |
| Jekyll Island Museum | Jekyll Island | Glynn | Colonial Coast | Local history | |
| Jimmy Carter National Historic Site | Plains | Sumter | Presidential Pathways | Biographical | Includes President Jimmy Carter's residence, boyhood farm, school, town railroad depot and a museum about his life |
| Johnston-Felton-Hay House | Macon | Bibb | Historic Heartland | Historic house | Also known as the Hay House, 1850s Italian Renaissance Revival style mansion with furnishings from many periods |
| Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Historic house | 1880s Victorian period home of Girl Scouts of the USA founder Juliette Gordon Low |
| Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park | Kennesaw | Cobb | Metro Atlanta | Military | Includes Civil War battleground of the Atlanta Campaign and a museum |
| King-Tisdell Cottage | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | African American | information, African-American Savannah and the Sea Islands |
| Kingston Woman's History Museums | Kingston | Bartow | Northwest | Local history | information |
| Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park | Blakely | Early | Plantation Trace | Archaeology | Museum with early Native American artifacts excavated from the park's Woodland Period mounds |
| L.L. Wyatt Museum | Greensboro | Greene | Classic South | Prison | information, early 19th-century prison with memorabilia from Greene County's law enforcement history |
| LaGrange Art Museum | LaGrange | Troup | Presidential Pathways | Art | website, formerly the Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum |
| Lamar Dodd Art Center | LaGrange | Troup | Presidential Pathways | Art | website, part of LaGrange College |
| Lamar Dodd School of Art Galleries | Athens | Clarke | Historic Heartland | Art | Contemporary art galleries |
| Lapham-Patterson House | Thomasville | Thomas | Plantation Trace | Historic house | 1880s Victorian house |
| Laurel & Hardy Museum | Harlem | Columbia | Classic South | Biographical | website, Facebook site, early film comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy |
| Lawrenceville Female Seminary | Lawrenceville | Gwinnett | Metro Atlanta | Local history | Open by appointment, houses the Gwinnett History Museum |
| Legacy Museum on Main | LaGrange | Troup | Presidential Pathways | Local history | website |
| Lincoln County Historical Park | Lincolnton | Lincoln | Classic South | Open air | information |
| Little White House Historic Site | Warm Springs | Meriwether | Presidential Pathways | History | President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's personal retreat |
| Log Cabin At Milton High School | Alpharetta | Fulton | Colonial Coast | Historic house | website, open by appointment with the Alpharetta Historical Society |
| Lowndes County Historical Museum | Valdosta | Lowndes | Plantation Trace | History | website, operated by the Lowndes County Historical Society |
| Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History | Augusta | Richmond | Classic South | African American | website, promotes the legacy of Lucy Craft Laney through art, history, and the preservation of her home |
| Lunchbox Museum | Columbus | Muscogee | Presidential Pathways | Commodity | information, information, located inside the International Marketplace, metal lunch boxes |
| Lyndon House Arts Center | Athens | Clarke | Historic Heartland | Multiple | Art exhibits and 19th-century Ware-Lyndon House museum |
| Madison Museum of Fine Art | Madison | Morgan | Historic Heartland | Art | American, European, Asian and African art and sculpture |
| Madison-Morgan Cultural Center | Madison | Morgan | Historic Heartland | Multiple | website, changing exhibits of art and culture, permanent exhibits of local history, decorative arts, antiques, school room |
| Male Academy Museum | Newnan | Coweta | Metro Atlanta | Local history | website, operated by the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society |
| Mansell House and Gardens | Alpharetta | Fulton | Metro Atlanta | Historic house | website, 1912 Queen Anne-style house, operated by the Alpharetta Historical Society |
| Massee Lane Gardens | Fort Valley | Peach | Historic Heartland | Decorative arts | Botanical gardens with Annabelle Lundy Fetterman Educational Museum featuring a Boehm porcelain collection |
| Massie Heritage Center | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Local history | website, a unit of the Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools, includes a model of old Savannah, Victorian building architecture and artifacts, the impact of Classical styles on Savannah buildings, a 19th-century period classroom, and the founding of Savannah |
| Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art | Marietta | Cobb | Metro Atlanta | Art | website, American art |
| Marietta Fire Museum | Marietta | Cobb | Metro Atlanta | Firefighting | website, antique fire apparatus, equipment, helmets, uniforms |
| Marietta Gone With the Wind Museum: Scarlett on the Square | Marietta | Cobb | Metro Atlanta | Media | website, includes Gone with the Wind movie memorabilia |
| Marietta Museum of History | Marietta | Cobb | Metro Atlanta | Local history | City and county history, located in Kennesaw House |
| Maritime Center at Historic Coast Guard Station | St. Simons Island | Glynn | Colonial Coast | Maritime | Maritime and natural history, operated by the Coastal Georgia Historical Society |
| Marsh House | LaFayette | Walker | Northwest | Historic house | Antebellum period house |
| Meadow Garden | Augusta | Richmond | Classic South | Historic house | 18th-century period home of George Walton, one of the three signers of the Declaration of Independence from Georgia |
| Memory Lane Classic Cars | Eatonton | Putnam | Lake Oconee | Car museum | , over 150 classic automobiles and motorcycles |
| Mercer-Williams House Museum | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Historic house | Includes 18th- and 19th-century furnishings and decorative arts |
| McRitchie-Hollis Museum | Newnan | Coweta | Metro Atlanta | Local history | website, operated by the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society, 1937 period home with exhibits about life in WWII and local history |
| Midway Museum | Midway | Liberty | Colonial Coast | Local history | website, Colonial era history |
| Mildred Huie Museum | St. Simons Island | Glynn | Colonial Coast | Art | website, information, art and history of St. Simons Island plantations and landmarks |
| Miles Through Time Automotive Museum | Toccoa | Stephens | Lake Hartwell | Automotive museum | , co-op style automotive museum in a restored 1939 dealership. |
| Mitchell Depot Historical Museum | Mitchell | Glascock | Classic South | Railroad | former railroad depot |
| Monroe Museum | Monroe | Walton | Historic Heartland | Local history | website, details a timeline of Monroe |
| Montgomery County Historic Village | Mount Vernon | Montgomery | Magnolia Midlands | Historic houses | website, part of Brewton-Parker College, two 19th-century period log houses, open by appointment |
| Moreland Hometown Heritage Museum | Moreland | Coweta | Metro Atlanta | Local history | Also known as Old Mill Museum, information, information |
| Morgan County African-American Museum | Madison | Morgan | Historic Heartland | Ethnic - African American | website, history and the art of African-American culture |
| Morris Museum of Art | Augusta | Richmond | Classic South | Art | Art and artists of the American South |
| Museum of Arts and Sciences | Macon | Bibb | Historic Heartland | Multiple | Art, science, natural history, live animals, trails, a planetarium |
| Museum of Aviation | Warner Robins | Houston | Historic Heartland | Aviation | Located at Robins Air Force Base |
| Museum of Colquitt County History | Moultrie | Colquitt | Plantation Trace | Local history | website |
| Museum of History & Holocaust Education | Kennesaw | Cobb | Metro Atlanta | History | website, a free museum at Kennesaw State University dedicated to World War II and the Holocaust, with frequent public programs and events open to the public |
| Museum of Southeastern Indians | Roberta | Crawford | Historic Heartland | Native American | information, information |
| Museum of Southern Culture | Colquitt | Miller | Plantation Trace | Culture | Historic exhibits and memorabilia, housed in Cotton Hall, home of Swamp Gravy, the official folk life play of Georgia |
| Museum of Southern Isolation | Hahira | Lowndes | Plantation Trace | Oddities | ICOM-accredited private collection of vintage transportation and natural history curiosities, including a library |
| National Civil War Naval Museum | Columbus | Muscogee | Presidential Pathways | Military | History of the Union and Confederate navies during the Civil War |
| National Infantry Museum | Columbus | Muscogee | Presidential Pathways | Military | Located at Fort Benning, story of infantrymen |
| National Museum of Commercial Aviation | Forest Park | Clayton | Metro Atlanta | Aviation | Displays include photos, timetables, ticket jackets, uniforms, model airplanes, aviation toys, in-flight serving ware, posters, aircraft components |
| National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force | Pooler | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Aviation | History of the Eighth Air Force and historic aircraft |
| Neel House Federated Garden Clubs of Macon | Macon | Bibb | Historic Heartland | Historic house | website |
| New Echota Historic Site | Calhoun | Gordon | Northwest | Native American | Replica 19th-century Cherokee village |
| Noble Hill-Wheeler Memorial Center | Cassville | Bartow | Northwest | African American | information, historic black school |
| Northeast Georgia History Center | Gainesville | Hall | Northeast | Local history | website, part of Brenau University, regional history and culture |
| Oak Hill & Martha Berry Museum | Rome | Floyd | Northwest | Multiple | Historic house and history museum about Berry College and founder Martha Berry |
| Obediah's Okefenok | Waycross | Ware | Colonial Coast | Open air | website, park includes 1870s log cabin, many historic farm outbuildings, agriculture equipment, animals, print shop museum, antiques, Native American exhibit |
| Ocmulgee National Monument | Macon | Bibb | Historic Heartland | Native American | Archaeology artifacts and Mississippian culture mound |
| Oglethorpe University Museum of Art | Brookhaven | DeKalb | Metro Atlanta | Art | Website, artwork which is international, representational, figurative, and spiritual in nature, located on the top floor of the Philip Weltner Library |
| Okefenokee Heritage Center | Waycross | Ware | Colonial Coast | Multiple | website, art and local history |
| Old Campbell County Historical Society Museum | Fairburn | Fulton | Metro Atlanta | Local history | website |
| Old Fort Jackson | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Military | Operated by the Coastal Heritage Society, restored 19th-century brick fort |
| Old Governor's Mansion | Milledgeville | Baldwin | Historic Heartland | Historic house | Operated by Georgia College & State University, antebellum mansion |
| Old Jail Museum | Barnesville | Lamar | Historic Heartland | Local history | website, operated by the Barnesville-Lamar County Historical Society |
| Old Jail Museum & Genealogy Research Center | Sandersville | Washington | Northeast | Prison | website, operated by the Washington County Historical Society |
| Old Pickens County Jail | Jasper | Pickens | Northwest | Prison | website, 20th-century jail and sheriff's house, operated by the Marble Valley Historical Society, and the adjacent Kirby-Quinton Mountain Heritage Cabin |
| Old South Farm Museum | Woodland | Talbot | Presidential Pathways | Agriculture | website, farm tools, equipment and home life implements |
| Old Stone Church Museum | Ringgold | Catoosa | Northwest | Local history | Facebook site, information |
| Paradise Garden | Summerville | Chattooga | Northwest | Art | website, sculpture park museum created by visionary artist Howard Finster |
| Pasaquan | Buena Vista | Marion | Presidential Pathways | Art | Visionary art site |
| Paulding County History Museum | Dallas | Paulding | Northwest | Local history | website, operated by the Paulding County Historical Society |
| Pebble Hill Plantation | Thomasville | Thomas | Plantation Trace | Historic house | 20th-century estate featuring 19th-century furniture, porcelain, silver, crystal, and glassware, sporting art and 33 Audubon lithographs, extensive grounds and gardens |
| Pemberton House | Columbus | Muscogee | Presidential Pathways | Historic house | Operated by Historic Columbus, Victorian cottage with a late 19th-century apothecary shop, Coca-Cola mementos |
| Perry Area Historical Museum | Perry | Houston | Historic Heartland | Local history | website, operated by the Perry Area Historical Society |
| Pickens County Marble Museum | Nelson | Pickens | Northwest | Industry | information, located in City Hall, history of area marble mining |
| Pickett's Mill Battlefield Historic Site | Dallas | Paulding | Northwest | Military | Civil War battlefield and museum |
| Pin Point Heritage Museum | Pin Point | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Local history | website, operated by the Coastal Heritage Society, life, work and history of the Gullah/Geechee community |
| Pine Mountain Gold Museum | Villa Rica | Douglas | Presidential Pathways | Mining | website, former gold mine, artifacts and equipment |
| Polk County Historical Society Museum | Cedartown | Polk | Northwest | Local history | website |
| Power of the Past Museum | Thomasville | Thomas | Plantation Trace | Aviation | website, antique airplanes, motors and memorabilia, located at the Thomasville Regional Airport |
| Quinlan Visual Arts Center | Gainesville | Hall | Northeast | Art | website |
| Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | History | Facebook site, information, history of the civil rights struggle of Georgia's oldest African-American community from slavery to the present |
| Rankin House | Columbus | Muscogee | Presidential Pathways | Historic house | Operated by Historic Columbus, 1850-1870 house museum |
| Richmond Hill Museum | Richmond Hill | Bryan | Colonial Coast | Local history | website, operated by the Richmond Hill Historical Society |
| Road to Tara Museum | Jonesboro | Clayton | Metro Atlanta | Media | website, items from 1939 movie Gone With The Wind and 1936 novel along with artifacts from the Civil War |
| Robert Toombs House Historic Site | Washington | Wilkes | Classic South | Historic house | 19th-century period home of politician Robert Toombs |
| Rome Area History Museum | Rome | Floyd | Northwest | Local history | website |
| Rose Lawn Museum | Cartersville | Bartow | Northwest | Historic house | website, Victorian period mansion, houses the writings and memorabilia of evangelist Samuel Porter Jones and Rebecca Latimer Felton, the first woman to serve in the United States Senate |
| Roswell Fire Museum | Roswell | Fulton | Metro Atlanta | Firefighting | website |
| Sam Nunn Museum | Perry | Houston | Historic Heartland | Biographical | information, information, exhibits about Senator Sam Nunn in the Houston County Board of Education building |
| Sapelo Island Visitors Center | Darien | McIntosh | Colonial Coast | Multiple | Island's cultural and natural history |
| Sautee-Nacoochee History Museum | Sautee-Nacoochee | White | Northeast | Local history | website, operated by the Sautee Nacoochee Center |
| Savannah Children's Museum | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Children's | website, operated by the Coastal Heritage Society, outdoor play experiences about Coastal Georgia |
| Savannah History Museum | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Local history | Operated by the Coastal Heritage Society |
| Savannah-Ogeechee Canal Museum & Nature Center | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Multiple | Canal history, area history and natural history |
| SCAD Museum of Art | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Art | Operated by the Savannah College of Art and Design, located in the Central of Georgia Railroad: Savannah Shops and Terminal Facilities, British and American art, African American collection, decorative arts and fashion |
| Savoy Automobile Museum | Cartersville | Bartow | Northwest | Automobiles | website, operated by the Georgia Museums, Inc that also operates Booth Western and Tellus museums |
| Scull Shoals | Greensboro | Greene | Classic South | Local history | |
| Senoia Area Historical Society Museum | Senoia | Coweta | Metro Atlanta | Local history | website |
| Shelnutt House Museum | Bowdon | Carroll | Historic High Country | Historic house | information, operated by the Bowdon Area Historical Society, open on special occasions |
| Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Maritime | Ship models, maritime paintings and artifacts that reflect Savannah's maritime heritage |
| Sidney Lanier Cottage House Museum | Macon | Bibb | Historic Heartland | Historic house | Mid-19th-century period home, birthplace of poet Sidney Lanier |
| Smyrna Museum | Smyrna | Cobb | Metro Atlanta | Local history | website |
| Sorrel Weed House | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Historic house | 1830s period house |
| Southeastern Quilt & Textile Museum | Carrollton | Carroll | Northwest | Textile | History of quilts and textiles |
| Southeastern Railway Museum | Duluth | Gwinnett | Metro Atlanta | Railroad | Georgia's official transportation history museum, over 90 pieces of rolling stock exhibited on the 30-acre (12 ha) site |
| Southern Forest World | Waycross | Ware | Colonial Coast | Industry | website, forest industry in the South |
| Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History | Kennesaw | Cobb | Metro Atlanta | Multiple | Railroad and Civil War artifacts, formerly the Kennesaw Civil War Museum |
| St. Marys Submarine Museum | St. Marys | Camden | Colonial Coast | Maritime | information, American submarine history |
| St. Simons Island Light | St. Simons Island | Glynn | Colonial Coast | Maritime | Lighthouse, St. Simons Lighthouse Museum in the keeper's house, adjacent A. W. Jones Heritage Center, operated by the Coastal Georgia Historical Society |
| Stately Oaks | Jonesboro | Clayton | Metro Atlanta | Historic house | 1839 antebellum mansion and outbuildings |
| Steffen Thomas Museum of Art | Buckhead | Morgan | Historic Heartland | Art | Artworks and life of German-American Expressionist Steffen Thomas |
| Stephens County History Museum | Toccoa | Stephens | Northeast | Local history | website, operated by the Stephens County Historical Society in the Toccoa (Amtrak station) |
| Stone Mountain | Stone Mountain | DeKalb | Metro Atlanta | Multiple | Includes the Stone Mountain Museum about the mountain's carving and the Civil War, and the open air Antebellum Plantation and Farmyard |
| Suttons Corner Frontier Country Store Museum | Fort Gaines | Clay | Plantation Trace | History | website, 1840s frontier general store complex, owned by Clay County and operated by Fort Gaines Historical Society |
| T.R.R. Cobb House | Athens | Clarke | Historic Heartland | Historic house | Mid-19th-century period home of Confederate General Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb |
| Tabor House and Civil War Museum | Ellijay | Gilmer | Northwest | Local history | website, operated by the Gilmer County Historical Society |
| Taylor-Grady House | Athens | Clarke | Historic Heartland | Historic house | mid-19th-century mansion open for tours and rental |
| Teaching Museum North | Roswell | Fulton | Metro Atlanta | Multiple | Open for school groups only |
| Telfair Museum of Art | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Art | Includes fine art and decorative art collections in three facilities, including the historic Telfair Mansion and Owens-Thomas House, and the contemporary Jepson Center for the Arts |
| Tellus Science Museum | Cartersville | Bartow | Historic High Country | Natural history/science | Formerly Weinman Mineral Museum, exhibits include minerals, dinosaurs and fossils, transportation technology, science playground and a planetarium |
| Thomas County Museum of History | Thomasville | Thomas | Plantation Trace | Multiple | website, includes main museum of local history, 1877 middle-class home, 1893 single-lane bowling alley, 1860s log house, 1890s courthouse |
| Thomasville Center for the Arts | Thomasville | Thomas | Plantation Trace | Art | website, community arts center for visual, performing, literary and applied arts, includes three galleries |
| Thronateeska Heritage Center | Albany | Dougherty | Plantation Trace | Multiple | Includes a science museum, local history museum and planetarium |
| Thunderbolt Museum | Thunderbolt | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Local history | website |
| Tidelands Nature Center | Jekyll Island | Glynn | Colonial Coast | Natural history | website |
| Tifton Museum of Arts & Heritage | Tifton | Tift | Plantation Trace | Art | website |
| Travelers Rest State Historic Site | Toccoa | Stephens | Northeast | Historic house | Early 19th-century tavern and inn |
| Tubman Museum | Macon | Bibb | Historic Heartland | African American | Art, history and culture of African Americans |
| Tunnel Hill Heritage Center | Tunnel Hill | Whitfield | Northwest | Multiple | website, local history museum, historic railroad tunnel and train viewing |
| Turner Center For The Arts | Valdosta | Lowndes | Plantation Trace | Art | website |
| Ty Cobb Museum | Royston | Franklin | Northeast | Biographical | Baseball player Ty Cobb |
| U.S. Army Signal Corps Museum | Augusta | Richmond | Classic South | Military | website, history of the Signal Corps, development of Fort Gordon and vicinity, and the U.S. Army |
| Uncle Remus Museum | Eatonton | Putnam | Historic Heartland | Media | website, log cabin created from two slave cabins, dedicated to portraying Southern life as in the Uncle Remus stories |
| Valdosta State University Fine Arts Gallery | Valdosta | Lowndes | Plantation Trace | Art | website, located in the Fine Arts Building |
| Vidalia Onion Museum | Vidalia | Toombs | Magnolia Midlands | Food | website, history of the Vidalia onion and its growing region |
| Vogel State Park | Blairsville | Union | Northeast | History | Includes Vogel Museum about the CCC |
| Waffle House Museum | Decatur | DeKalb | Metro Atlanta | Food | website, restored 1955 site of the first Waffle House restaurant, features restaurant memorabilia |
| Walker County Regional Heritage/Train Museum | Chickamauga | Walker | Northwest | Multiple | information, local history, railroad history and model trains |
| Walker Hill | Griffin | Spalding | Metro Atlanta | Historic house | website, unique exhibits from the early 1900s |
| Walker-Peters-Langdon House | Columbus | Muscogee | Presidential Pathways | Historic house | website, operated by Historic Columbus, early 19th-century house |
| Washington Historical Museum | Washington | Wilkes | Classic South | Historic house | Mid-19th-century period antebellum house |
| Webb Military Museum | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | US military | Website, military artifacts from Civil War to Cold War, free to active duty military |
| West Georgia Museum | Tallapoosa | Haralson | Northwest | Multiple | website, local and natural history, includes replicas of old stores, a barber shop and a bank, and dinosaur models |
| Westville | Columbus | Muscogee | Presidential Pathways | Living | 19th-century rural village, website |
| William Root House Museum and Garden | Marietta | Cobb | Metro Atlanta | Historic house | website, operated by Cobb Landmarks & Historical Society, 1850s period house |
| Woodruff Farm House | Columbus | Muscogee | Presidential Pathways | Historic house | website, operated by Historic Columbus, 1840s farm house |
| World War II Flight Training Museum | Douglas | Coffee | Magnolia Midlands | Aviation | website |
| Wormsloe Historic Site | Savannah | Chatham | Colonial Coast | Local history | Former 18th-century plantation site and museum |

## Defunct museums

* Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum, Madison, closed in 2012
* C. E. Blevins Avian Learning Center, Cohutta, collections moved to Chattanooga Arboretum and Nature Center
* Coweta County Heritage Museum and Research Center, Newnan, closed in 2012
* Fort Discovery, Augusta, closed in 2010
* Georgia Children's Museum, Macon, closed in 2014
* Georgia Music Hall of Fame, Macon, closed in 2011
* Lewis Grizzard Museum, Moreland, closed in 2011, collections now at the Moreland Hometown Heritage Museum
* Nash Farm Battlefield Museum, closed June 1, 2017
* National Museum of Patriotism, Atlanta, closed in 2010
* Old Mill Motorcycle Museum, Juliette, photos
* SciTrek, a science museum in Atlanta
* Stone Mountain Antique Car and Treasure Museum, Stone Mountain, closed in 2008, featured vintage cars and antique items
* U.S. Navy Supply Corps Museum, Athens, closed in 2010

## Tourism regions

The Georgia Department of Economic Development has defined nine tourism regions as listed below with their associated travel associations as footnotes.

### Classic South

East central part of the state, includes the city of Augusta

### Georgia Coast

Also known as the Colonial Coast, includes the city of Savannah

### Historic Heartland

Central part of the state, includes the cities of Macon and Athens

### Northwest Georgia

Northwest region, includes Chickamauga

### Magnolia Midlands

Southeast section, includes Statesboro, Counties: Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Bleckley, Bulloch, Candler, Coffee, Dodge, Evans, Irwin, Jeff Davis, Laurens, Long, Montgomery, Pulaski, Screven, Tattnall, Telfair, Toombs, Treutlen, Wayne, Wheeler, and Wilcox.

### Northeast Georgia Mountains

Northeast region, counties: Banks, Dawson, Elbert, Forsyth, Franklin, Habersham, Hall, Hart, Jackson, Lumpkin, Madison, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union, and White

### Plantation Trace

Rural southwestern section, includes Fitzgerald

### Presidential Pathways

West central section, includes Columbus and Plains