Booth Western Art Museum552

The Booth Western Art Museum, the winner of our 2008 Parents' Picks quest to find the best Museum for Big Kids in the Atlanta area, is an 80,000-square-foot museum - the second largest art museum in the state of Georgia - in downtown Cartersville, features contemporary Western American art, Civil War art, Presidential portraits and letters, Western movie posters, Western illustration, and Sagebrush Ranch - an interactive gallery where children of all ages can learn about art and Western America.

The Museum Store offers books on art and the West, as well as prints and other items featuring Western American art images; a cafe serves lunch; a multimedia 60 seat theatre shows the orientation film The American West, every 20 minutes.

The museum offers second Saturday programs for children (ages 4 to 12) and their parents on a monthly basis. Programs relate to the permanent and traveling collection, and focus on teaching children about the American West through art, literature, entertainment, and hands-on activities. Nominal fees are charged for materials.

An art academy opened in 2008, offers hands-on art classes for ages seven through adult. The museum also hosts arts-themed summer camps with a real cowboy and a focus on art projects through the art academy as, well as special programming for summer daycare groups.