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Official state symbols represent the cultural heritage
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Georgia State Art Museum
Georgia Museum of Art
Athens, Georgia
Adopted in 1982
The Georgia Museum of Art shares the mission of the University of Georgia to support and to promote teaching, research, and service. Specifically, as a repository and educational instrument of the visual arts, the museum exists to collect, preserve, exhibit, and interpret significant works of art.
The Georgia Museum of Art is located in a 52,000 square foot, state-of-the-art building with 10 galleries, an auditorium, Figgie's Café, an audio-visual theater, an art reference library, a studio classroom, a print study room and a museum shop. This facility furthers the mission of the Georgia Museum of Art to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret works of art.
Hosting a variety of culturally diverse exhibitions, approximately 20 per year, the museum draws both from its permanent collection and from other museums and private collections representing all periods of art history.
Georgia Museum of Art ˇ 90 Carlton Street ˇ Athens, Georgia 30602 ˇ Phone: (706) 542-GMOA ˇ Fax: (706) 542-1051
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State Symbols
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State symbols represent things that are special to a
particular state.
symbol \ˈsim-bəl\
noun
Etymology:
in sense 1, from Late Latin symbolum, from Late Greek symbolon, from Greek, token, sign; in
other senses from Latin symbolum token, sign, symbol, from Greek symbolon, literally, token
of identity verified by comparing its other half, from symballein to throw together,
compare, from syn- + ballein to throw — more at devil
Date: 15th century
1: Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or
convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.
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