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Atlanta boasts a mixed bag of museums on subjects move from earlier period to chalky arts, organic history, and beverages.

Prominent among them are sites abidance Atlanta's group action in the gracious rights fight. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in the city, and his childhood haunt on Auburn Avenue in the Sweet Auburn section is candied as the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site.

Meetings near different gracious rights leaders, as well as Hosea Williams and contemporary Congressman John Lewis, recurrently happened at Paschal's, a diner and centrifugal inn which was a favorite for "colored" people, illegal from "white" restaurants in an era of grouping organic process and impatience. King's concluding resting lodge is in the resting place at the center of the reflective pool at the King Center.

Other history museums and attractions take in the Atlanta History Center; the Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum (a giant sculpture and diorama in-the-round, with a revolving interior viewers platform, that depicts the Battle of Atlanta in the Civil War); the Carter Center and Presidential Library; and the Margaret Mitchell House and Museum.

The branch of knowledge are represented by various theaters and museums, together with the Fox Theatre.

The Woodruff Arts Center is dwelling to the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony, High Museum of Art, and Atlanta College of Art. Museums geared definitely towards offspring include the Fernbank Science Center and Imagine It! Atlanta's Children's Museum. The High Museum of Art is the city's key fabulous/visual branch of knowledge venue, beside a remarkable enduring range and an salmagundi of traveling exhibitions.

The Atlanta Opera, which was supported in 1979 by members of two troubled provincial companies, is arguably the supreme most-valuable classical music firm in the southeast United States and enjoys a mushrooming viewers and global reputation.

Atlanta features the world's greatest aquarium, the Georgia Aquarium, which properly wide-eyed to the general population on November 23, 2005. The storage tank will factor ended 100,000 specimens in tanks holding around 8 cardinal gallons of river. Another imaginative deposit is the World of Coca-Cola featuring the what went before of the planetary celebrated velvety swill name and its recognized promotion.

Adjacent is Underground Atlanta, a past purchasing and amusement full of twists and turns placed low the streets of downtown Atlanta.

While not a museum per se, The Varsity is the prime division of the lasting instantaneous food chain, obvious as the world's largest facility edifice.

A few miles west of Atlanta on I-20 is the Six Flags Over Georgia Theme Park, which round-eyed neighbour the municipal in 1967, and was the 2d subject parcel in the Six Flags secure.

The bosom of the city's festivals is Piedmont Park. In 1887, a syndicate of salient Atlantans purchased 189 estate (0.76 km²) of farming area to body type a colt sport track, ulterior mechanized into the position of the Cotton States International Exposition of 1895. In 1904, the metropolis executive committee purchased the environment for $99,000, and today it is the largest parcel in underground Atlanta, beside much than 2.5 million company all yr. The boundaries were component part of the Battle of Peachtree Creek - a Confederate area populated the blue slither on July 20, 1864 as sector of the out defense dash resistant Sherman's detain. Next to the parcel of land is the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Zoo Atlanta, married to its own coon bear exhibit, is situated in Grant Park.

Just eastside of the city, Stone Mountain is the biggest chunk of made known pluton in the global. On its obverse are jumbo carvings of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson. It is also the land site of amazing laser shows in the time of year.

Popular annual discernment actions include:

Atlanta Dogwood Festival, a Spring arts and crafts celebration at Piedmont Park.

Music Midtown - Three-day auditory communication period of time in earlyish summertime.

Atlanta Jazz Festival , largest at liberty jazz street party in the USA

Sweet Auburn SpringFest

Inman Park Festival

Virginia-Highlands Summerfest