Experience Local

Any aficionado of rock or soul music knows that Macon is ground-zero. Otis Redding. James Brown. Jason Aldean. Little Richard. Bill Berry and Mike Mills (REM). The Allman Brothers. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a photography gallery devoted to musicians located in Macon? Gallery West displays exclusively the photographs of Kirk West. Kirk is a professional photographer who began [...]

Parents of young children who are looking for wholesome, safe, and stimulating activities: meet Macon Giggles & Wiggles which offers an indoor playground for kids 0-6, where the young ones will have their natural development fostered through play. In the early 20th-century, Maria Montessori saw the benefits of a child developing naturally. With more than [...]

Home to The Allman Brothers Band’s original members, their families, and various friends from 1970 to 1973, The Big House allows the unique opportunity to experience the surroundings of the rock and roll tenants of the 18-room home. Berry Oakley, [...]

The Cannonball House museum had its first public tour in April 1964. What makes it popular? In July 1864, a Federal shell struck the house, damaging a column, then traveling through the front exterior wall and an interior wall before settling in the foyer. Unexploded! [...]

It’s a delight to realize that you have easy access to a cultural touchstone, isn’t it? Opened in 1921 by Macon’s first black millionaire, Charles Henry Douglass, the Douglass Theatre is a cultural anchor of the community. As a premier venue for the arts, scholarship, and learning, the theatre serves as a bridge to connect [...]

Lose yourself in the history of Georgia’s rich sports tradition at the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame—the nation’s largest state sports museum. Located Downtown, the 43,000 square foot state-of-the-art museum houses over 3,000 artifacts. [...]

The Johnston-Felton-Hay House in Macon, affectionately known as the “Palace of the South,” is a property of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation and stands as one of the most iconic and recognizable structures in Georgia [...]

Discover the world and explore the universe at the Museum of Arts and Sciences! Founded in 1956, the MAS has expanded from a one-room exhibit in the basement of the Wesleyan Conservatory to a 55,000 square foot facility on over 16 acres of land. [...]

The Museum of Aviation, located at Robins Air Force Base, opened to the public in 1984. Today, four climate-controlled hangars house more than 85 historic aircraft, missiles and climb-in cockpits that are visited by over 600,000 patrons every year. The Museum is a place that honors Veterans and their families and celebrates the Airmen [...]

It’s not every day that you stand in a place with more than 12,000 years of continuous human habitation. Yet that’s the depth of history visitors experience at the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park—a prehistoric American Indian site and the ancestral homeland of the [...]