Cobb Scene

2nd Annual Georgia Food + Wine Festival

The Marietta Cobb Museum of Art on a beautiful spring afternoon in 2023. Today, the MCMA is the only metro Atlanta fine arts museum that focuses on American Art. The museum’s permanent collection houses a variety of artworks dating from as early as the eighteenth century to the present. After recent renovations, Passersby may notice the building boasts a fresh coat of paint.

On March 14, 1910, the Marietta post office opened on Atlanta Street. The post office moved to its new office on Lawrence Street in 1963. The building then housed the main Cobb Library until the late 1980s. On April 5, 1990, the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art officially took over the original Post Office building chosen by the Cobb County Commission. Photo courtesy of Marietta History Center.