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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.
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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.
Defunct museums
Tourism regions
The Georgia Department of Economic Development has defined 9 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
Historic High Country
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