ATLANTA — A metro Atlanta museum is closed Wednesday because of a power outage.
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Fernbank Museum is closed, according to the museum’s website, which advises people to “stay tuned for updates.”
Estimate restoration time for power restoration is 6 p.m., according to the Georgia Power website.
Fernbank is a nonprofit natural history museum, giant screen theater and old-growth forest founded in 1939 to preserve Fernbank Forest, which is the largest urban, old-growth, Piedmont forest in the U.S.
The museum and giant screen theater at Fernbank opened on Oct. 5, 1992.
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