Currently Closed
The City of Vienna lists the Georgia State Cotton Museum as closed at this time, and no reopening date has been posted. Call 229-268-2045 or 229-268-4744 before making a special trip.
The Georgia State Cotton Museum in Vienna tells the story of the crop that shaped Dooly County and much of south Georgia, from planting and harvest to the enslaved people whose labor built the cotton economy.
Local farmers and residents donated much of the collection: a cotton bale, the plows, planters and harvesting tools of generations past, weighing machinery and a planter’s desk where harvest records were kept. Exhibits show how farmers fought insects, prayed for rain and waited for the bolls to open, and how cotton was bought and sold.
- StatusClosed; call for updates
- Where1321 E. Union St., Vienna
- From I-75Exit 109, between I-75 and downtown
- Phone229-268-2045
“Snow in the South”
Even with the museum closed, a fall drive through Dooly County is worth it. When the bolls open in autumn, the fields around Vienna turn white enough to look like snow, framed by green pines and pecan groves. Downtown Vienna also has murals of its 1930s main street and the Forbes Drug Store soda fountain of the 1950s.
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Sources we checked
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- City of Vienna: attractions – museum status, phone and exhibits
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