From historic to modern, visitors can enjoy art, performances and educational opportunities throughout the city. Neighborhoods around Atlanta house several museums, galleries and theaters, many with chef-owned restaurants or eateries that make a night on the town complete.

Triple A (Anytime Atlanta Activity)

Atlanta celebrates the U.S. premiere of the King Tut exhibition and the Southeast debut of China’s Terracotta Army. Visitors can explore both by using the golden "Treasures Fit for Kings” combination ticket.

The High Museum of Art’s permanent collection of more than 11,000 works includes African, American, decorative, European, folk, modern and contemporary art, and photography.

The High developed an exclusive partnership with the Musée du Louvre in Paris that brings hundreds of works from the Louvre’s collections to Atlanta from October 2006 through 2009. This is the only opportunity in the United States to see this prestigious collection.

Now in its 62st season, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performs more than 250 concerts a year. Recordings have won 23 Grammy Awards, more than U2, Madonna and the Rolling Stones combined.

Alliance Theatre is one of the largest regional theaters in the nation serving a diverse audience. The Alliance hosted the world premieres of “The Color Purple” and “Aida.”

The largest museum of its kind in the Southeast, the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum offers three permanent galleries: “Creating Community: The Jews of Atlanta from 1845 to the Present;” “Absence of Humanity: The Holocaust Years;” and “The Legacy Project: Coming to America.”

The Fox Theatre is one of the country’s best preserved picture palaces from the Golden Age of cinema. Built in the 1920s, the theater has an indoor Arabian courtyard with flickering stars and drifting clouds. Check out the schedule when you are in town, or take a walking tour of this historic theater.

Atlanta Ballet is the longest continually-operating ballet company in the United States. Catch presentations of classical and contemporary works at The Fox Theatre and Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.

The 15-acre Atlanta Botanical Garden borders Piedmont Park and features outdoor gardens; walking trails; a Children’s Garden; a Conservatory housing rare and endangered plants from tropical rainforests and desert regions; and the Fuqua Orchid Center.

Catch contemporary plays at Actor’s Express on Midtown’s Westside; classics by Shakespeare and other accomplished playwrights steal the show at the New American Shakespeare Tavern in Midtown; and Whole World Theatre in Midtown packs the house with comedy and improv.


Theater is alive in Little Five as Horizon Theatre Company brings contemporary plays to the stage. For off-the-cuff improvisation, Dad’s Garage Theatre Company is the ticket. 7 Stages brings new plays and international artists to its stage.


The Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University features art of ancient cultures of the Mediterranean and the Americas including Egyptian mummies; pre-Columbian pottery; ancient Greek and Roman sculptures; and artifacts from the Middle and Far East.


Jimmy Carter Library and Museum portrays President Jimmy Carter’s life and administration through films, displays and a recreation of the Oval Office. The museum’s partnership with the Smithsonian brings popular visiting exhibitions.


At the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, visit The King Center and Dr. King’s and Coretta Scott King’s graves, the King birth home and Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he preached. The surrounding Sweet Auburn District was the thriving center of black enterprise in Atlanta from the 1890s through the 1940s.


Theatrical Outfit performs at the new Balzer Theatre at Herren’s downtown, a historic building once housing a landmark restaurant.


At the Atlanta History Center, explore Atlanta’s history of the Civil War, civil rights and antebellum South at the Museum, housing the largest collection of Civil War artifacts in the world, as well as an interactive, 27,500-square-foot wing memorializing the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games. Also see the 1928 Swan House and the Tullie Smith Farm, an 1840s plantation farmhouse.