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If you're a history buff, art aficionado, archaeology fiend, or dabbler in the sciences, our museum picks are perfect for a rainy day or afternoon excursion! Our selections center around notable collections of historical and cultural items. Many have excellent rotating displays in addition to exceptional permanent collections.
Battles for Chattanooga Museum
Address: 1110 E Brow Rd, Point Park, Chattanooga, TN 37350
The main feature of this museum, located at the entrance to Point Park on Lookout Mountain, is a massive, 3-D map that details the major Civil War battles in and around Chattanooga. Five thousand tiny soldiers, 650 lights and life-like sound effects transport visitors back to November 1863. There is also an impressive...
Chattanooga African American Museum
Address: 200 E Martin Luther King Blvd, Chattanooga, TN 37403
The education begins as you push open the doors to this museum – they are made of African wood that is over 100 years old. Some exhibits, such as a Bushman's hut and a model Ethiopian church, explore African history, but the museum's most unique items capture the African American experience around Chattanooga. Unlike...
Chattanooga Regional History Museum
Address: 400 Chestnut St, Chattanooga, TN 37402
This museum, located in an early 19th century schoolhouse, is designed to be fun and educational for the entire family. The permanent exhibit is called "Chattanooga Country: Its Land, Rivers and People." This broad subject is covered in an orientation video and in hands-on activities along the Discover History...
Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park
Address: Lafayette Rd, Hwy 27, Fort Oglethorpe, GA 30742
This park was commissioned on August 19, 1890, making it the nation's first – and largest – National Military Park. Stroll the grounds on the free self-guided tour and you'll see cannons and monuments to soldiers on both sides. Or pay a slight fee and gain admission to the museum, where you can get a guided tour,...
Address: 321 Chestnut St, Chattanooga, TN 37401
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This fabulous museum has activities for kiddies as young as 18 months. The Little Yellow Playhouse has a musical bridge and a full, kid-sized kitchen, perfect for young tykes to age four. While little sis is occupied, her older brother can go on a dig for dinosaur bones in a giant sandbox, channel his inner Elvis...
Houston Museum of Decorative Arts
Address: 201 High St, Chattanooga, TN 37403
"Antique Annie" was how Anna Safley Houston was known around Chattanooga. She dedicated her life to collecting pottery, ceramics, and glassware, even if it meant skimping on food and medicine. When she died, she bequeathed her collection to "the people of Chattanooga," and these pieces are displayed in her Victorian...
Address: 10 Bluff View, Chattanooga, TN 37403
This museum contains one of the southeast's most important collections of American art. The museum is a study in contrasts; it is housed in a Victorian mansion with a contemporary glass addition, and it displays everything from Norman Rockwell to Andy Warhol. Works date from the Colonial Period to the modern day and...
