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ATLANTA A
HOST CITY: FIFA
WORLD CUP 26™
In June-July 2026, the world’s
biggest football (soccer)
tournament returns—this time Cultural DeKalb
co-hosted across three countries.
Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium
will be a major venue, showcasing World-class Museums, Galleries,
how technology enhances live
sports. fifa.com Performance Venues, Recreation

M ore than 80 hotels are ready to • Exhibition Hub Art Center Atlanta – • Flat Rock Archive – This African American
welcome visitors to DeKalb’s
historical museum in Stonecrest is
In Doraville, the Exhibition Hub Art Center
multicultural universe. Add in
hundreds of specialty shops and top Atlanta features rotating exhibits that dedicated to the preservation of the
history of the Flat Rock Community
have included “Van Gogh: The Immersive
restaurants, and it’s easy to fill a day of Experience” and “Titanic: An Immersive and the African-American slaves and
fun and exploration! Voyage.” Exhibits may include digital their descendants; and to sharing the
MUST VISIT: art exhibits and virtual experiences with experience of rural African-Americans
from bygone eras. flatrockarchive.com
atmospheric light and sound, artifacts,
• Callanwolde Fine Arts Center – Callanwolde hands-on activities, and a gift store. • Michael C. Carlos Museum – This Emory
offers concerts, gallery exhibitions, theartcenters.com University museum in Decatur has the
outreach programs, and classes in visual, • Fernbank Museum of Natural History – See Southeast’s largest collection of ancient
art, from ancient Egypt, Africa, Greece,
literary, and performing arts, housed in ancient fossils, science interactives, Rome, the Near East, Asia, and Americas.
a Gothic-Tudor style 1920 mansion built and the largest dinosaurs ever carlos.emory.edu
by Coca-Cola heir Charles Howard discovered at this family favorite in • Plaza Fiesta – This indoor Latin mall is the
Candler near Decatur. callanwolde.org Decatur. fernbankmuseum.org heart of one of metro Atlanta’s most
• David J. Sencer CDC Museum – This museum • Fernbank Science Center – Explore diverse communities, vibrant with
features award-winning permanent nature and space at Fernbank Forest an ever-changing colorful decor and
and changing exhibitions that focus on and Observatory in Decatur, home to opportunities to savor your favorite
a variety of public health topics, showing the Southeast’s largest telescope. foods, bakery items, and candy from
how CDC scientists merge old-fashioned fernbank.edu Latin American countries. plazafiesta.net
detective work with high-tech science
to crack the cases of mystery diseases. Visit the John Lewis Memorial
The museum is free and open to the Statue on the Decatur Square
public. cdc.gov/museum U.S. Representative John Lewis was a civil rights icon
• DeKalb History Center Museum – In the and Democrat who served in Congress more than 30
Historic DeKalb Courthouse in Decatur, years until his death five years ago. The 12-foot John
the Center stages up to four rotating Lewis Memorial Statue depicts him with his hands over
his heart in a gesture of love that he was known for.
exhibits each year, including Lipstick Lewis led sit-ins to protest segregation and was beaten
& Fire on exhibit now, a celebration of alongside demonstrators while marching across the
DeKalb County women. Learn more on Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in 1965.
guided architecture walks and research The statue was dedicated in August 2024 on the
DeKalb-related archives, free to patrons. Decatur Square. Artist: Atlanta-based Basil Watson
dekalbhistory.org

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