Why you should make visiting The Solana

some really old stuff: Egyptian mummies and coffins, Greek and Roman sculptures, Mayan carvings. The Carlos also hosts traveling shows, including one set to run until November on “divine felines,” cats in ancient Egypt.

Location: 571 South Kilgo Cir., Atlanta 30322 (on the campus of Emory University)

Hours: Tuesday-Friday: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday: noon-5 p.m. Closed Mondays and university holidays. Tours are offered at 2 p.m. on Sundays, excluding major holidays.

Tickets: $6 for seniors, students and visitors aged 6 to 17; $8 for adults; free for children aged 5 and younger, museum members and Emory University students, faculty and staff.

For more information: 404-727-4282, carlos.emory.edu

Delta Flight Museum

Up, up and away! The Delta Flight Museum occupies original 1940s-era Delta Air Lines hangars minutes from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The museum, started in 1995, promises a chance to check out historic aircraft dating to the 1920s; to see the only fullmotion flight simulator open to the public in the United States (and to fly in it, if you’re 16 or older and are willing to pay $420 an hour for four people); and to learn the history of a company that started as a crop-dusting operation and grew into one of the world’s largest airlines.

Location: 1060 Delta Blvd., Bldg. B, Dept. 914, Atlanta 30354 (at Delta Air Lines’ headquarters)

Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday: 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Wednesday: closed; Sunday: noon-4:30 p.m.

Tickets: $12.50 for seniors; $15 for adults; $10 for ages 5 to 17; free for children aged 4 and younger. For more information: 404-715-7886, deltamuseum.org

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell’s Civil War novel “Gone with the Wind” and the blockbuster movie it spawned are such a big deal in Atlanta that it has conjured not just one, but three metro museums dedicated to it.

In Marietta, the museum known as Marietta Gone with the Wind Museum: Scarlett on the Square boasts one of Vivien Leigh’s gowns from the movie, several of Mitchell’s own copies of the novel, promotional material from the movie and one of the movie scripts.

In Jonesboro, the Road To Tara Museum is located in the city’s old train depot and promises displays of items from the movie alongside Civil War artifacts, including a section of rail twisted into a “Sherman’s necktie.”

For more information: 770-478-4800, atlantastruesouth. com; click “Gone with the Wind,” then “Road to Tara Museum.”

Marietta Gone with the Wind Museum: Scarlett on the Square

Location: 18 Whitlock Ave., Marietta 30064

Hours: Monday-Saturday: 10 a.m.5 p.m. Closed Sundays and major winter holidays.

Tickets: $6 for seniors and students; $7 for adults; $5 each for groups of 15 or more.

For more information: 770-794-5576, gwtwmarietta.com

In Midtown, the Margaret Mitchell House allows visitors to see the place where “Peggy” Mitchell gave literary life to Scarlett, Rhett and the rest of the Tara crew.

Road to Tara Museum

Location: 104 N. Main St., Jonesboro 30236

Hours: Monday-Friday: 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Saturday: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Closed Sundays and Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.

Tickets: $6 for seniors and children aged 6 to 12; $7 for adults. Discounts for groups of 12 or more.

Margaret Mitchell House Location: 979 Crescent Ave. NE, Atlanta 30309

Hours: Monday-Saturday: 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Sunday: noon5:30 p.m. Opens at noon o n July 4 and is closed Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.

Tickets: $10 for seniors and students; $13 for adults; $5.50 for visitors aged 4 to 12; and free to children 3 and younger. For more information: 404-249-7015, atlantahistorycenter.com; click on “Explore,” then “Destinations,” then “Margaret Mitchell House.”