Museums
Museums in Downtown Area
Classic Arcade Pinball Museum, located at 409 Broad Street in downtown Chattanooga, is an interactive all-you-can-play museum dedicated to the nostalgia, history and science behind the fascinating games of pinball and arcade. Patrons at the museum can experience and play a wide variety of exhibits, including pinball machines spanning from the 1940’s to today.
http://www.chattanoogapinballmuseum.com/
The Coker Museum, located at 1309 Chestnut Street in Chattanooga’s Historic Southside, is home to Corky Coker’s personal collection of vintage vehicles. It shares space with the historic Honest Charley Speed Shop. Explore over 100 vintage vehicles, classic cars, hot rods, motorcycles, trucks, buses, race cars, delivery vehicles, and even airplanes hanging overhead, plus rare engines and memorabilia.
International Towing and Recovery Museum, located at 3315 Broad Street. Chattanooga is the birthplace of the U.S. towing industry and the International Towing Museum displays equipment that has kept the U.S. roadways clear and operating since 1916.
Hunter Museum of American Art is perched on an 80-foot bluff overlooking the Tennessee River, the Hunter Museum of American Art features a collection of nearly 3,000 works illustrating the diversity of the American story and the creativity of the American spirit. Galleries are filled with paintings and drawings, sculptures and new media.
Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center, located at 2 Aquarium Way. Chattanooga is where our nation’s first and highest military award for valor was presented. Chattanooga’s award-winning attraction showcases the powerful stories of how ordinary people accomplished the extraordinary. Spending just an hour or two here will inspire you and your family with the values demonstrated by Medal of Honor recipients – patriotism, citizenship, courage, integrity, sacrifice and commitment.
Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, located at 4119 Cromwell Road in Chattanooga. The mission of the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) is to collect for preservation, operation, interpretation, and display railroad artifacts in an authentic setting to educate the public concerning the role of railroads in the history and development of our region.
Civil War attractions
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park located in North Georgia and Chattanooga is the nation’s oldest and largest National Military Park. The park encompasses more than 9,000 acres of battlefields, monuments, and forests, and urban landscapes. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park consists of six distinct places through the greater Chattanooga area: Chickamauga Battlefield, Lookout Mountain Battlefield, Missionary Ridge, Orchard Knob, Signal Point and Moccasin Bend.
