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All Out Chill

SOAK UP NATURE 5,000 items in this colorful collection. After
Oxbow Meadows Environmental checking out these miniature masterpieces,
Learning Center provides exhibits, natural continue your journey into The Royal Crown
history displays, nature trails, and offers Cola Museum, The Chero-Cola Museum, and
formal and informal educational programs The Nehi Drink Museum. These collections
about the ecology and natural history of are accompanied by The Tom Huston Peanuts
the region. Inside the center, visitors can Museum. Finally, end your walk down memory
view a variety of snakes, turtles, tortoises, lane in The Georgia Radio Museum and Hall
fish, alligators, invertebrates, and other of Fame where there are antique, tube-style
animal life. Walk down the trails to catch radios made by classic manufacturers and a
a glimpse of native wildlife, view wetlands display of Hall of Fame inductees.
and ponds, or explore the educational and 3218 Hamilton Rd.
fun Discovery Forest. ( outdoors only) 706.653.6240 • 706.332.6378
3535 S. Lumpkin Rd. • 706.507.8550 columbuscollectivemuseums.com
oxbow.columbusstate.edu

“If you grew up before 1985, you will find a box
“We have seen eagles, fish, birds you likely took to school.”
in the wild...”
EXPERIENCE AN AFRICAN
VENTURE INTO AMERICAN ICON
THE 19TH CENTURY As portrayed in the recent film “Ma
Relocated from Lumpkin, Georgia to Rainey’s Black Bottom,” explore the
Columbus and newly reopened, Historic background and influences of Gertrude
Westville is a museum of Southern history “Ma” Rainey’s life and career as “The Mother
and culture representing the diversity of of the Blues” through the Ma Rainey Home
the Southern experience by telling the and Blues Museum. 805 5th Ave.
stories of all Southern peoples including 706.641.5933 • parks.columbusga.gov/Parks/
European Americans, African Americans, MA-Rainey-Home
Native Americans, and immigrants.
Through exhibits, live interpretations, “This history is so important…This is a
demonstrations, and hands-on activities, must-see!”
you can curate your own museum
experience each time you visit.
3557 S. Lumpkin Rd. • 706.940.0057
westville.org

“My family especially enjoyed watching
the blacksmith.”

A WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE
Visit Columbus Collective Museums
and see the world-renowned Lunchbox
Museum, where there are more than
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