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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/06/2026 22:34:00

Few cultural institutions in the American South gather as many art forms under one roof as the Woodruff Arts Center, a Midtown Atlanta campus that combines a symphony orchestra, a producing theatre and a major art museum on a single Peachtree Street block. Opened in October 1968 as the Memorial Arts Center, it was conceived partly as a tribute to 122 Atlanta arts patrons who died in the 1962 crash of a chartered jet at Orly Airport in Paris, a tragedy that pushed the city to build a permanent ho...