Reviews of Swan House at Atlanta History Center (Museum)

J. Min

Beautiful house! Amazing gardens! I loved seeing what it looks like now, and how they changed it for the Hunger Games movie. Well worth the entry fee! Go early in the day when fewer visitors are there! Ask the living character guide for a song or tune in the piano, and she's happy to oblige! Great stories about the collections in the home! (Don't just look, ask! You'll be pleasantly surprised at all you learn.)

Brandi Vorpahl

I really enjoyed visiting the history center. It was a perfect way to spend the day in this beautiful city!

Zed Star

JUST INCREDIBLE ! My wife and I took the tour of the Swan House and Smith Family Farm recently while taking a break in Atlanta. We had a grand old time walking through this beautifully designed and restored mansion. We loved it !

Brian Eagan

Beautiful place with great tour guide in historical costume. Historical reenactment by museum staff member who brings history to life. A tour with the architect of the home. An extensive tour of all 4 levels of the home.

Rob Kay

It's just wonderful. Great atmosphere. Everybody was nice. Love to come back.

He Zhang

Beware if you are a minority, the staff at the entrance of Swan House will impress you with a real feel as if you were living in the past.

Lu Nations

Great place to get together with friends

Richard Bolz

Be nice if they tell you more about the rooms you get to go into.

D'Jeane Peters

Lots of old stuff to learn about and the in-character tour guide that played Phillip the architect was 10/10.

Elizabeth Evans

Breathtakingly lovely. Marvelous decorative arts collection.

Brett Bradshaw

Excellent museum with a wonderful, knowledgeable staff.

anthony stroud

This place is just amazing and well worth a visit! One of the history center staff here told me that 95% of all the furnishings and portraits are original to the mansion when the Inman family lived here in the early 20th century. The farm house and cabin nearby were moved from other Atlanta suburban locations, and the farm house has sheep in a small barnyard area in front of it, and a loom inside with which they've made a few things out of the wool. The museum and cyclorama are very interesting as well, making the small price of admission worth every penny spent!

Christianne S Coble

We got a "little" lost as to when/where to get our tickets. They had a private event happing in the cabin by the entrance and the guy that was directing the event guests from the house visitors sent us to the house. When we got there, from the back as the parking lot is closer to the back of the house, we were greeted by a gentleman who told us we needed tickets (no kidding!) And we could only get them at the visitor's center. Guess what? It was 3:15 and they close at 4! We ran to the visitor's center and got our tickets. When we made it back we were told that our tickets don't give is access to "behind the scenes" tour. At that time we just wanted to see the house - we would love to take the extra tour but we couldn't make it back because we would need to purchase the extra at the visitor's center. Long story short: start your your from the visitor's center and ask, ask, ask! Ask about what they offer!!

Charles Coleman

I was amazed on the history and knowledge of the employees my hat comes off to Mr. James Trappio on doing a great job there...Keep living life to the fullest!

Kathy Tallini

went to a private party. fabulous venue. would be amazing for a wedding

Carlos Chiddick

Beautiful and full of knowledge! Definitely would recommend for a visit.

Joseph Cannelongo

Well preserved home with all the furniture. And you can get real close. The property is great.

Jimmy Mcconnell

Loved it. Great day touring the house and grounds.

Benjamin Dubuisson

Beautiful location, ticket agent was wonderful saving my visiting family money signing up my wife and I for a yearly membership and using guest passes. Now we can revisit the landmark anytime, although it would be preferable without the little one. Not the most mesmerizing experiences for them.

Jacee Casarella

This place is worth every penny. The staff is friendly, the grounds just keep opening up more and more surprises as you walk around. You could spend hours in the Swan House alone, but be sure not to miss the other exhibits inside. Even better is that your ticket works for an extended amount of time at the Margaret Mitchell house, so you don't feel like you have to hurry over there in the same day.

L. Garcia

This was President Snows house in the Hunger Games movie! It was such a serene and beautiful area to roam around on a Sunday morning.

Ayyappan A

Olden Goldie’s worth visiting

Kristen Shaw

A gorgeous estate, and one that makes Atlanta unique. (Part of the Hunger Games was also filmed here.)

Linda Lingo

Delightful!

Dominic Shaw

Very impressive historic house and property. The house and actors are great; it really feels like you are in a different time. I found the grounds even more impressive. You are free to walk around as you please and there are paths that go all over the place. I didn't have enough time to see everything, but I imagine you could easily spend a day exploring the grounds.

Chelsea Carboni

Awesome place to visit! Sometimes when people don’t have tickets, they are properly pointed in the direction of the admissions desk so that they can experience this place in full! It would be a shame for other people’s circumstances to ruin your experience or even rate a place one star for it :)

Chace Ragsdale

Beautiful house with very helpful and informative house attendants and actors.

Joerg Mehner

Nice place

David Walters

Great place to go

Travis Sawyer

They do some really cool events. Definitely a great place to visit. Keep an eye out for things like their Harry Potter night, and Christmas.

TORCHER GAMES Pre-Alpha

Wonderful food and atmosphere.

Robert Lamm

Snobby stuckup and rude is how I would describe the host. A family had missed the ticket booth because of lack of signage. The host was aweful to them in sending them to get tickets, I was embarrassed by the treatment of them and it ruined my experience.

Lauren Standard

We weren't aware of the other historical information and interesting places to see on the property. We liked it very much, it is very well preserved. If you're a history buff, this is a place to checkout!

karen Stargell

I love this place

Robert O'Gorman

This was a great place to see early 1900s wealthy living. The hosts did a great job of making it feel real

Terron Phillips

This place is gorgeous!

J V

The most information on Atlanta the ante bellum, and the civil war that I have encountered in years.

Joe Huff

First timer, soon to return. Great date day with my bride. Among best sites in the ATL if you want to understand the true Atlanta.

Mike Albright

Interesting look into history and fun place to look around.

Lewis Allen

Me and my guys disassembled and relocated their statue and here are some photos

Carl Valle

really nice

Ilya Shindyakov

Beautiful place to visit. Delicious food in restaurant.Great customer service.

Robert Theis

A lot of history at the house. Great tour guide.

Robert Ramey

The actors/guides provided an entertaining and enlightening look into the private lives of an interesting family from a different time.

Ben Butt

Beautiful estate. Worth the visit there.

Mohammad Hadikhan Tehrani

Gorgeous house to visit

Hannah

So much to do and see here. Definitely recommend eating at the restaurant at the Swan House. The grounds are beautiful. Great day trip!

Cira Branigan

Beautiful place. Some scenes from the hunger games were filmed in the house

Kimberly Powers

Awesome place to visit! I fell in love with the kitchen but there is so much neat history here!

Wei Li

Great place , Worth to pay a visit. Elegant buildings, furniture,

Simon Pythoud

The visit was awesome! We got the chance to hear the woman that presents the place playing piano and singing. It was a delight!

Mark Campbell

The "Swan House" has some incredible architecture and interior design, but the icing on the cake were the historians/actors wearing period clothing who portray some of the original house staff. The behind the scenes tour was a nice treat also.

Rachel Garfias

Absolutely a great place to visit! Beautiful!

Brandon West

Amazing place and impeccable venue and service

Pete Collisson

The Swan House was alright, but the History Center was very well done, diverse, and very interesting.

Bob Bernhart

Enlightening.

Milton Rice

Nice.

Amanda Seehusen

So nice and the person working there was excellent?

Henry Hughey

In fith grade I had Cotillion here, and it tought me crucial manners and, more importantly, the food is great and it is very nice.

Kelly Mendoza Paz

Of you want to know about Atlanta history... You should go there.

Ilya Zobanov

This was a cool place to visit. Took my wife here on a date since she likes old historical homes. The park is great too, quiet stroll in the middle of the city, we loved it. The staff at the Swan House is very friendly and offer lots of details about this historical place.

Jill Carter

Very fun place to spend some time. Especially when it is pretty outside. Every part of it is gorgeous and the gardens are great too

Larry Lawrence Abrams

The library is as they left it.

Miklos Halmos

Excellent, national level museum and grounds. Historical facts and cultural displays are well-curated and surprisingly expansive. Plan for a whole day, especially if you explore the grounds featuring early frontier homes, cabins, working farms, Swan House, and beautiful woods.

Dan Lindsay

This is a cool house, but a lot has changed over the years. Some of the rooms have been stripped bare and repainted for shooting movies. For those that love history, check out the Herndon Home Museum not too far away. The collection there is more complete and the story is inspiring.

Jim McWilliams

Fun trip through the historic home.

Brett Charap

Beautiful. Really enjoyable tour for a relaxed day. Much to see, truly an immersive experience.

Herbie Stelzig

Loved this home and grounds...staff was very informative and friendly...must see

mike brader

Great tour guide. Especially the architect

Noah Cole

Swan House is an amazing look back at the post antebellum South, what wealth could build post reconstruction, in the South. Highly attentive docents and great period furnishings.

Simon Robson

One of the best examples of lavish 1930s homes. This is part of the Atlanta History Center. Well worth the short walk from the center. Furnishings are superb from the main living areas to the kitchen. Grounds are beauty.

Hong Sun

We visited over the weekend. The house is maintained well. There are information sheet available for reference near the entrance. Wish to have a tour guide inside the house.

Idalia Lumbreros

It's an amazing place. There is quite a bit to see. Unfortunately we didn't get to see everything. If this is your first time there, you need to go into the Atlanta History Center and buy your ticket. It's in the back of that building. You can walk around to see more.

Zachary Coll

The tour guide was great.

Jonathan Andreasen

Interesting history but crowded out by party planners

Jackie Fitz

Really cool place to visit. There are character actors, and it feels like truly stepping back in time entering the place. It also serves as president Snow's Mansion in the hunger games films and they offer special behind the scenes tours.

Kat Swaggerty

I love that you can get into the whole house and touch much of it. It really helps you to immerse yourself into the history.

Taylor Rose ShahAhmadi

The Swan House was the picture perfect setting for my wedding! The event coordinators was wonderfully helpful and make the day go flawlessly! Thank you Steven!

Josiah Kinney

Absolutely beautiful

Chris smoth

Self guided tours. Nearly all rooms accessable, all beautifully preserved from that period. Make sure you set aside time to visit the basement gallery of a quite extensive export porcelain collection housed there.

James Dyke

Simply amazing.

Spencer Pellant

If you are in Atlanta I would say this is a must. My wife and I visited this house in the morning before it was open and took great pictures. Later on we went through the Atlanta History Center and toured the house and surrounding attractions. It's a beautiful house and a reasonable price.

Jessica Pruitt

Beautiful walk through history!

Brian Rush

Nicely presented and preserved. A show case.

Earl Cohen

Interesting perspective of upper class life in the 1920s with period furniture and decorations.

Mayur Patil

Nice place to see historic house settings

Heather Deremer

Had a wonderful time at the Halloween event. The inside exhibit was very informative and interesting. The outside grounds are breathe taking

Darla Fareed

Very interesting place...there was an African American woman standing in the kitchen dressed as "the help" while the other employees were not dressed to reflect that era.

Debra Ferris

Awesome so much bigger than expected

Sara Li-Young

In addition to the history museum, the mansion and gardens here really help a visitor gain a more true understanding of Atlanta and the South's past. We should always be clear when looking at the past from the present -- and not be afraid.

Keith Kidd

Cool stop in Atlanta. We did a behind the scenes tour which was fascinating.

Darren Hintze

Such an interesting look at the early to mid 1900s. The in-character staff adds a background and ambiance to the experience. I prefer the historical perspective but as a fan of the Hunger Games series visiting the set enhanced the visit value.

Barbara Sawyer

beautiful and elegant!

Marcelo Carpovich

Just an amazing place!

Nadale Celestine

Tourguide was very knowledgeable about the history of the house, it's owners and the architect.

Eric DeCoff

My girls still love this place 13 and 9

Chris D

Very cool place the walk around the experience the historic scenery. It's cool that someone lived in the house until the 1970's. The rest of the history center really transports you back in time. You can checkout old houses, a blacksmith and walk the grounds.

Victor Anaya

Our group recently hosted a 4-hour private event for about 40 ladies, downstairs in the Bellenita Room. We had the Swan's Favorite luncheon. The classic chicken salad, frozen fruit salad, and cheese straws were enjoyed by all, as was the French silk meringue swan. The wait staff was pleasant, helpful, and efficient. We used their sound system for our speaker. The most popular part of the entire day was the delightful gift shop on the main floor! The majority of ladies left carrying shopping bags!

william kent

Beautiful house with a great staff!

Barbara Williams

Wonderful wedding weekend

Ion Borta

Great place loved it, for the price of the ticket , you have a lot to see

D. Knapp

Fantastic experience as a Part of the Atlanta History Center. The "Swan House" is a masterpiece of architecture and walking through it, really makes you expect, that Mr. Gatsby will Walk down the mainstairs, anyway time. It is really worthwhile, looking Ingo every single room, incl. the bathrooms and compare how the people lived and enjoyed, or lived and worked.

Janice Knight

Great architecture and they let you roam the house with actors in period costume to answer your questions. We missed the tour but still enjoyed walking through the house. You can even sit in the Model T out front and take pictures.

Wendell Miller

Nice museum, cool train, pretty house, minus two stars for making the Cyclorama presentation political. Gettysburg's educates on battle facts, unlike this one, which focuses on the faults of a few men.

Shelley Pederson

Plan on spending time strolling through old Georgia!

Blanche Henderson

We were greeted by ‘the owner’ of the house, which really threw us all as the actor in full period costume was so believable. He showed us the first couple rooms and then ‘the architect ‘ took over. He gave so much interesting detail and information that we never would have seen without having them pointed out. He made the 1930’s really come alive with his information and pictures.The history of this house was so fascinating, especially at a time the country was in a depression.He took us upstairs and continued a detailed tour from an architectural point of view that the four of us were really interested in. People would listen for a few minutes and continue on there own, but we were captivated by our tour guide. We finished outside in the gardens after thanking him for his time.If you go I hope you have a guided tour. It makes it so much more fun and was the highlight for us.

Jacque M.

Beautiful estate, and interesting experience.

Chris Alspaugh

Beautiful historical home. The children's room has wood toys for tots to play with.

Ramon Espiritu

Well preserved and told a very descriptive story. There is more than a simple old house but lots of side notes and accompanying artifacts. I must say that at $24 the whole museum (not just the Swan House) was a turn off, so I wasn't surprised that the exhibit was quite empty at the time I visited. However, once in there it is a good experience.

Theodore Jeans

Beautiful facility. Very elegant decor. Only issue is that it is hard to locate if you have never been there before.

J. S. LEE

Nice place for lunch.

Tammy Kocher

Beautiful, modern new building and gorgeous rustic gardens and paths. Membership is a very affordable option and the Swan House and all the different exhibits make for an enjoyable visit. Employees are very pleasant and helpful.

Millie V

Gorgeous mansion. Must visit to appreciate the architecture and the beautiful gardens.

Amanda Baker

Lovely to visit! A must see~

maura young

Enjoyed my visit here. Beautiful house/grounds.

Nelson Daley

Pretty cool if you enjoy history and architecture.

Matt Robertson

Interesting look at life in a different era in Atlanta. Many parts of the house still look like they did around the turn of the century, and they have performers here, dressed in period costumes, who are very well educated on the house, the culture and the history of those times. They are happy to talk to you (while staying in character) and answer questions that you have. Ample free parking. Definitely worth a couple of hours.

William Lukens

Cool 1920s Gatsby-ish mansion from a financially successful broker of corn & cotton. Share cropping makes lots of cash for the People at the top. Excellent example of pre Great Depression excess.

Myron Berg

Historic plantation house. Interesting to visit.

Steven Johnston

Great look at how the rich lived in the 1930s

Sarah Saunders

Fun historic place with guides dressed in time period clothing in character! Had a great time chatting with them and getting a good sense of the time period and history. Great place to take visitors and loved walking around the ground.

Alyssa Lynch

Well worth the admission cost and is a must see in Atlanta!

Anna-Marie Aloia

This is an incredibly Hidden Gem in the center of Atlanta. There are 30 Acres of Gardens and grounds to walk and the structure is absolutely astronomical and fresa. There is such a mix of different elements of other European countries. The building reflects a deep tone of Italy and French and also Spanish influences. The gardens are lovely. The museum is also super interesting as well with lots of exhibit and there is a 360-degree painting of the burning of Atlanta which is a wonderful thing to see. You also get a ticket that's valid for nine days to see the Margaret Mitchell house in your admission so it's quite worth it. The coffee shop is wonderful and there's also a little cafe that serves authentic and delicious foods that very few throughout the week. The locals take advantage of this and I recommend that visitors do as well.

MaryAnn Forman

Beautiful house showing southern history.

Tina Wilson

Absolutely stunning! We went on the self guided tour and were able to really enjoy this historic house. Must see if you are visiting Atlanta!

Dan Baxter

Great experience. I'm from the UK and found it fascinating. Lots to see and do and very polite staff.

Ashwaq Awadh

One of the unique places in Atlanta!!!! Definitely to go to if you are visiting Atlanta.

George Walker

I am not completely interested in seeing old rich people houses but my wife is. As far as old rich people houses goes this one is not bad. They let you get very close to the future. For example, there are toys in the children's room that kids can play with. I suppose it is well suited for weddings and they were set up for one while we were there. (Not sure why people want to get married at some old rich person's house but to each their own) All in all it is a novelty more than anything else.

Steve Perusse

Beautiful historic home in original condition

Jan Corbeille

Beautiful first level. Loved it.

Jesse Moore Perrin

The house and grounds were stunning but the staff was horrible and rude, they were odd about where you could take pictures, we were in designated photo spots but they claimed we were not (And I mean in the grounds outside, not on the inside as you would typically expect from a historical site). The price was high and overall it was a lackluster experience. Come on Atlanta: you can do better!

Jenna L G

Came here to work a wedding. Beautiful place

Martha Greene

Our tour guide was dressed in period clothes and spoke as if she actually lived there and knew the family personally. She was very personable.

Christy Evans

Beautiful at Christmas.

Mitchell Rosen

Love visiting historical sights...lots of preservation at this site.

Shouvanik Haldar

Great place...to experience a step back in history

El Cranky

Beautiful home with interesting history, well worth a visit.

JR Timothy

I learned so much and it's such a fun beautiful place to visit.

Eugene Gabuja

Very interesting historical complex. The swan house is very well preserved. The gardens are amazing. Must see.

Peggy Howard

Such a lovely place. Food is really good!!

Amy Rogers

What a special place ! Well worth a visit. Well worth taking time to step back in time and see this home lovingly restored - actors take parts to lend to the authenticity.

Mary Shelley

House was beautiful. Most of the staff/volunteers very friendly. Person playing the architect was shrill, rude, & unpleasant. Wouldn’t go back just for that. Really ridiculous how thus person ruins the experience.

Kevin Cole

Very interesting house to walk through. Carriage House restaurant was delicious.

TXGA VM

You just cant get close enough to thr furniture for amazing photos

Brittany Terpstra

First, the Atlanta History Center was amazing. The Swan House however was a complete let down. The house is run down, as are the grounds. The staff is rude and inconsiderate. The map they give to visitors specifically says you are able to pose for photos, but when I and my boyfriend did so, the manager called security on us. The security officer was pleasant and understanding. The manager himself was unbelievably rude, accused us of not paying (even though we clearly had our stickers) and ruined the experience for us. We skipped the Swan Coach house for lunch because of him. He honestly should not be working with people.

Aaron Brown

Just not that interesting of a house. 21$ to see it is kind of nutty.

C F

$20 to get in. TWENTY. TWO. ZERO. Even if you only want to see the Swan house.

Key West

I luv history. Traveling back in time with every visit that I make here. The staff is friendly and helpful with anything from answering questions, etc.