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Fernbank Science Museum

Location: 156 Heaton Park Dr. NE, Atlanta

Time: Mon 8:30am - 5pm; Tue - Fri 8:30am - 10pm; Sat 10am - 5pm; Sun 1pm - 5pm. Planetarium shows: Tue - Fri 8pm; Wed and Fri - Sun 3:30pm.

Cost: Free

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Owned and funded by the DeKalb County School System, this museum/planetarium/observatory, located adjacent to the 65-acre Fernbank Forest, is an educational partner of the Fernbank Museum of Natural History.

Plan to visit the entire complex the same day. There's a 1 1/2-mile forest trail here, with trees, shrubs, ferns, wildflowers, mosses, and other plants marked for identification, and an extensive rose garden next door to the museum.

The indoor facility houses museum exhibits such as a video display on geological phenomena (volcanoes, earthquakes, mountain formation); a gem collection; development of life in Georgia from 500 million years ago to a million years ago; a complete weather station; fossil trees; the original Apollo 6 space capsule and space suit (on loan from the Smithsonian); computer games;

a replica of the Okefenokee Swamp, complete with sound effects; and models of dinosaurs that roamed Atlanta in prehistoric times.

There are planetarium shows, and, at the Observatory, which contains the largest telescope in the world dedicated to public education, an astronomer gives talks and helps visitors use the telescope.

 

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