Museums & Visitor Centers

Museums & Visitor Centers

Florence County Museum

Architect: Watson Tate Savory
Associate Architect: Cooper Robertson
The Florence County Museum is a two story art, science and history museum located in the downtown Florence historic and cultural district. The facility includes permanent and rotating galleries, classrooms, support spaces, and a central courtyard for outdoor displays and events.

Kennesaw State University Zuckerman Museum of Art

Architect: Stanley Beaman & Sears, Inc.
The two story Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of art houses consolidated collections that were previously spread across the campus, into a facility that includes gallery space for permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, as well as collection storage, staff offices, and support facilities.

Twin Creeks Science and Education Center

Architect: Lord Aeck Sargent
This research and education facility, for the National Park Service, serves as the home for scientists working on the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) project, a decade-long project documenting the estimated 100,000 species of living organisms in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The building facilitates research efforts to gain the knowledge that is essential for the effective protection and preservation of the Park’s ecosystem.

The North Carolina History Center and Mattocks Hall

Architect: EYP Architecture and Engineering, PC
Associate Architect: Quinn Evans Architects
The North Carolina History Center and Mattocks Hall, a museum and visitors center serving as the entrance to the Tryon Palace Historic Sites & Gardens, a colonial Governor’s Mansion and related sites. The museum includes two main exhibit areas, the Regional History Museum, a gallery that explores 300 years of North Carolina history, and the Pepsi Family Center housing the children’s interactive section of the museum.

Art Gallery of Alberta

Architect: Randall Stout Architects, Inc.
Associate Architect: Architecture | Tkalcic Bengert
Acoustical recommendations for a 2,300 square foot multipurpose theatre located in the Art Gallery of Alberta, as well as room acoustics, sound isolation, and mechanical and electrical systems noise and vibration control for select spaces in the museum including the lobby, great hall, café, boardroom, lounge, galleries, and offices.

National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center

Architect: Verner Johnson, Inc.
Associate Architect: Hecht Burdeshaw Architects, Inc.
The National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center at Patriot Park is located just outside the gates of Fort Benning. Visitors to the museum take an interactive journey through every war fought by the United States over the past two centuries. Era galleries trace Infantry history from before the Revolutionary War to action today in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is a special gallery recognizing Medal of Honor recipients.

Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor and Destination Center

Architect: Lord Aeck Sargent
The National Park Service’s Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor and Destination Center houses exhibits reflecting the heritage and development of the Parkway, as well as space for regional orientation and visitor information. The building evokes a tree-house-like atmosphere allowing visitors to experience the majestic vistas and surrounding woodlands for which the Parkway is known.

Bechtler Museum of Modern Art

Architect: Wagner Murray Architects, PA
Associate Architect: Mario Botta Architetto
The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art is a fine arts museum housing the Andreas Bechtler art collection. The building includes a 350 seat auditorium located below the museum for both public and Wells Fargo corporate functions, as well as a bookstore and classrooms.

Taubman Museum of Art

Architect: Randall Stout Architects, Inc.
Associate Architect: RRMM Architects, PC
Acoustics, audio-visual, security and communications systems for the Taubman Museum of Art complex comprising a 72,000 square foot main building and an 8,000 square foot education center. The main building includes a 150 seat auditorium, a 250 seat black box theatre, exhibit space, office space, a boardroom, and a cafe. The education center includes a lecture room and education studios.

Chattahoochee Nature Center

Architect: Lord Aeck Sargent
A two building addition to this nonprofit center including the 10,000 square foot Discovery Center, a museum housing an animal habitat exhibit (including marine life and opossums), a theatre, permanent exhibits that focus on man’s past and current use of the Chattahoochee River corridor, and events space. The complex also includes the Discovery Pavilion, a 2,400 square foot covered space that serves as an outdoor classroom, and event space.

Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art

Architect: Lord Aeck Sargent
Associate Architect: Sottile & Sottile
Renovation of a circa 1850s shed/warehouse structure, located in a former railroad complex, to house SCAD’s growing permanent art collection, as well as the Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies. The facility houses existing and future collections of art, and provides academic environments for programs of study relevant to art and architecture.

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Taubman Museum of Art

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National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center

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Florence County Museum

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Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor and Destination Center

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