All tours at the Atlanta Civil Rights museum are self-guided and will take visitors to any or all of three galleries.

Outside of the Martin Luther King Jr. collection, the center is not a repository of artifacts. Instead it is what exhibit designer David Mandel calls "experiential."

The museum housed in an elegantly curved structure with a moss lawn for a roof, offers visitors a history of the freedom movement in the United States, told from Atlanta's perspective, and an accounting of the modern human rights activism that civil rights pioneers inspired.

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The city of Brookhaven's mayor and City Council last week decided to remove the colored panes of glass from the dome of Brookhaven's new City Centre after residents objected to the brightness of the colors, seen here Friday, June 27, 2025. (Reed Williams/AJC)

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