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State Botanical
Garden of Georgia

The State Botanical Garden of
Georgia at the University of
Georgia is a 323-acre accessible
preserve featuring singular
gardens and collections, including
the Visitor Center and Conservatory,
Alice H. Richards Children’s Garden,
the Porcelain and Decorative Arts
Museum, several themed gardens
and miles of nature trails. All the
facilities and most displays and
theme gardens are accessible by
wheelchair, motorized scooter,
and stroller. Exceptions include
the Flower Garden because of its
elevation changes and the Native
The Classic Center Theatre and UGA performing arts are alive at places like
Performing Arts Center are spacious The Classic Center, UGA’s Performing Arts Flora Garden’s mulch pathways. Free
venues that host instrumental and Center, The Morton Theatre, Athens Creative admission; donations welcome.
classical music, Broadway shows, and Theatre, and East Athens Educational Dance
more. These and many great venues, Center. Broadway productions combine with
along with WUOG 90.5 FM University of movie complexes and alternative cinemas Places. The Morton operates as a rental
Georgia college radio, and local record that bring the world to Athens. facility hosting live theatre, music concerts,
shops like Wuxtry, are keeping local church services, weddings, community
Athens sounds dialed in. Night clubs, The Morton Theatre events, and more. The theatre, which
theatres, and even area coffee shops The Morton Theatre is one of the first, and seats 500, is a unit of the Arts and Nature
showcase Athens’ musical aptitude on the oldest surviving vaudeville theatre in the Programs Division of Athens-Clarke
any given night of the week. United States, was opened by an African County's Leisure Services Department and
American entrepreneur in 1910 and now is managed by the nonprofit Morton
Exhibitions and the Arts listed on the National Register of Historic Theatre Corporation.
The official State Museum of Art, the
Georgia Museum of Art on the campus of
University of Georgia, houses American
paintings, primarily 19th- and 20th-century;
American, European, and Asian; works on
paper; and self-taught art, as well as works
by African American artists and a Samuel
H. Kress Study Collection of Renaissance
and Baroque art and growing collections
of Southern decorative arts. The museum’s
Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden
hosts rotating exhibitions of work by women
sculptors. The 1945-founded museum and
gardens offer free inspiration for everyone.
Creativity and culture define Athens. The

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