Page 19 - Columbus VG 2022

All Out Columbus

Looking for something more on the
quirky side? You’ll have some really great
stories to tell when you get back home after
a visit to Pasaquan, a 7-acre compound near
Buena Vista created by an eccentric folk
artist named Eddie Owens Martin. It’s been
hailed as one of the most remarkable folk-art
environments in America. This is one of
those places you need see to believe!
Or how about taking in the newly
dubbed Columbus Collective Museum? This
amazing place is home to the Royal Crown
Cola Museum, Chero-Cola Museum, Nehi
Drink Museum, Tom’s Peanut Museum, the
Georgia Radio Museum and Hall of Fame,
and the Lunch Box Museum. Yes… a museum
dedicated to lunch boxes! It’s home to the
world’s largest collection of lunch boxes,
with more than 5,000 metal and plastic
boxes, thermoses, and coolers. Be prepared
for those memories of childhood lunches in
The Lunchbox Museum the school cafeteria to come flooding back
when you find your Scooby Doo lunch box!
From military history, art, science
Nothing beats seeing a story come to museums, to world-class entertainment,
life live on-stage so make sure your itinerary Columbus takes the best of the past and
includes a production at the Springer Opera merges into the present, creating a place
House—The State Theatre of Georgia and that is both timeless and comfortable…
one of America’s most vibrant professional not to mention a whole lot of fun!
theatre companies. Or take in a Broadway For more information about the Columbus
production at RiverCenter for the Performing arts scene, go to VisitColumbusGa.com
Arts, one of the centerpieces in the city’s or the Columbus Cultural Arts Facebook page:
Arts and Entertainment District. facebook.com/columbusculturalartsalliancega.
Other not-to-be-missed things include the
Coca-Cola Space Science Center (especially
a show in their planetarium); travel back in
time to the 1800s and see what life was like
at Historic Westville; history buffs can’t miss
the National Civil War Naval Museum at Port
Columbus or the National Infantry Museum,
voted USA Today’s Best Free Museum
and one of CNN Travel’s 12 best military
museums in the world.
VisitColumbusGa.com | 800.999.1613 19