Smithsonian magazine's Museum Day falls on Saturday, when many cultural riches around Atlanta and beyond the metro area can be witnessed for free.
For instance, you can enjoy a new exhibit of photographs by Atlantan Lucinda Bunnen at the Hudgens Center for the Arts in Duluth. Or check out recent progress on the service yard restoration at Roswell's 1839 Bulloch Hall. Or view a just-opened exhibit of six artists (including Atlantan Joe Peragine) interpreting the act of hand washing at the David J. Sencer CDC Museum (formerly the Global Health Odyssey Museum) in Atlanta.
Feel like a day trip? Sites within a couple hours' drive include the Currahee Military Museum in Toccoa, the Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia in Sautee-Nacoochee, the Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center in Mountain City and the Legacy Museum on Main in LaGrange. They are among the 36 participating Georgia institutions.
The seventh annual event, which for one day each year mimics the free-admission policy of the Smithsonian's Washington, institutions, is an attempt to underline the museums' role in the dissemination of knowledge every day. The day will involve more than 1,300 museums representing all 50 states.
To participate, download a free Museum Day ticket for one person plus a guest at www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday (limit one ticket per household).
A full list of participating museums, found at www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/venues, includes these metro and close-by institutions:
- Archibald Smith Plantation Home, Roswell
- Art on 5, Atlanta
- Barrington Hall, Roswell
- Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville
- Bulloch Hall, Roswell
- Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta
- David J. Sencer CDC Museum, Atlanta
- Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta
- Heritage Sandy Springs Museum, Sandy Springs
- High Museum of Art, Atlanta
- Hudgens Center for the Arts, Duluth
- Madison Museum of Fine Art, Madison
- Marietta Museum of History, Marietta
- Quinlan Visual Arts Center, Gainesville
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