We have the Flint River Aquarium where you can see our native fish, turtles, and alligators from the Flint River. It's an educational facility that is part aquarium, part children's museum, part natural history museum, part botanical gardens, and part science museum. It just opened in September 2004 downtown and is open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and Sunday from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Admission is $8.50 for adults, $7.50 for seniors, and $6 for youth. Children under three are admitted free. It also has an imagination theater with a 3 to 4 story tall screen for films that are truly larger than life. The highlight of the aquarium is an amazing 175,000 gallon, 22 foot deep spring.
We have a few museums like the Thronateeska Heritage Center, the Albany Civil Rights Museum, and the Albany Museum of Art. The Thronateeska Heritage Center is located in the Heritage Plaza in downtown Albany. It includes the Museum of History housed in the Indian Depot, a historic 1912 railroad station, a model train exhibit, and Weatherbee Planetarium, which is the only public planetarium in southwest Georgia. They have hands-on Science Discovery Center as well. The Albany Museum of Art houses one of the finest collections of African artists in the South, a permanent collection of 19th and 20th century American and European art, and several changing exhibits. Children will love the amazing space wings a hands-on participatory art gallery. Since 1998, the Civil Rights Museum has shared the story of ordinary people and their leaders who bore witness to equal rights and helped spark national civil rights in Albany and southwest Georgian movements. Dr. Martin Luther King spoke there in 1961.
The park at Chehaw is a wild animal park. It has hiking and biking trails, the Albany Recreation Department, and camp grounds. Three other camp grounds in the area are Albany RV Resort, Creekside RV Park, and Deven Crest Travel Park and Service Center. All three are on the Liberty Expressway.
