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One free museum in Georgia has been voted the best free museum in America by USA Today readers seven times. That’s quite an achievement, and most ticketed attractions would proudly display that honor right by the front door.

But the surprises don’t stop there. One art museum on this list has a children’s room where your movements are projected onto a screen.

Steeplechase at Callaway Gardens returns Nov. 7 for its 42nd running, and this year’s event carries even more significance. The Ledger-Enquirer interviewed Steeplechase executive director Brooke Neville about what will make this year’s race unique and why it’s so important to our community’s history and culture.

A museum in Georgia has a full-size movie theater playing comedy classics, and you can walk in without paying a cent. Donations are welcome, but the laughs come free.

That discovery sent me looking for more. I found a mineral collection big enough to make a geologist faint and a gold rush story told inside an old courthouse.

I also found an aquarium that follows a single river from top to bottom.

I love that rain can push you toward places like these. A gray sky suddenly feels like a reason to explore instead of a reason to sulk on the couch.

The best part is the price. Each stop on this list fits under thirty dollars, and several cost nothing at all.

A wonderful exhibition of documentary photography is now on display at the Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia. “Jessica Ingram: We Are Carver” is an exhibition of photography documenting six years of the Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) program at George Washington Carver High School in Columbus. It’s on display until Feb. 14, 2027. The exhibition brings together portraits, candid photographs, conversations, and classroom ephemera “that offer an intimate look at students as they navigate adolescence, identity, friendship, responsibility, and the transition into adulthood.” The Museum is hosting a public reception on Thursday, October 15, from 5:30–7:30 p.m. The Museum is inviting visitors to explore the exhibition and enjoy light refreshments prior to a panel discussion at 6:30 p.m. with Ingram and several of the students featured in the project. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

A wonderful exhibition of documentary photography is now on display at the Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia. “Jessica Ingram: We Are Carver” is an exhibition of photography documenting six years of the Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) program at George Washington Carver High School in Columbus. It’s on display until Feb. 14, 2027. The exhibition brings together portraits, candid photographs, conversations, and classroom ephemera “that offer an intimate look at students as they navigate adolescence, identity, friendship, responsibility, and the transition into adulthood.” The Museum is hosting a public reception on Thursday, October 15, from 5:30–7:30 p.m. The Museum is inviting visitors to explore the exhibition and enjoy light refreshments prior to a panel discussion at 6:30 p.m. with Ingram and several of the students featured in the project. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

The Columbus Museum will present “Jessica Ingram: We Are Carver,” an exhibition of photography documenting six years of the Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) program at George Washington Carver High School in Columbus, Georgia. On view October 10, 2026–February 14, 2027, the exhibition brings together portraits, candid photographs, conversations, and classroom ephemera that offer an intimate look at students as they navigate adolescence, identity, friendship, responsibility, and the transition into adulthood.

The Met’s new exhibition, ‘Past Continuous,’ pairs abstract expressionist Lee Krasner with her more celebrated husband, Jackson Pollock. Thankfully, the museum succeeded in not subordinating her to Pollock’s lasting fame.

Coulter Fussell, a diner waitress turned artist, makes her kids’ Snapchat messages into art.

In a storefront studio on the main street of her small town of Water Valley, Mississippi, Fussell turns donated fabric, photographs from her father, and her kids’ videos of fireworks, lake jumps and pick-up truck hijinks into complex textile works of art. Her creations illuminate the optimism, humor and technique instilled in her by her mother, a quiltmaker. As Coulter says, “I grew up in a household where what people would consider higher arts was on the same playing field as craft work.”

Journey to the deep South as we follow Coulter’s advice to take the “art world to the artists.”

This film was produced by RAVA films in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art.