Arts & Culture

• 901 South College St

Auburn’s premier fine art museum regularly showcases programs with regional and globally recognized artists within its architecturally impressive facility. As well as its thoughtfully curated galleries, the university museum also includes a café, a museum store featuring regional makers and art gifts, and expansive grounds with sculpture and beautifully…

• 910 College Avenue

The Jay and Susie Gogue Performing Arts Center at Auburn University is East Alabama’s premier performing arts venue, presenting touring Broadway productions, opera, dance, chamber arts, popular musical performances, and student and faculty music and theater performances. The Gogue Center is home to both the 1,202-seat Woltosz Theatre and 3,500-capacity…

• 205 S. College St.

The Tony and Libba Rane Culinary Science Center is located on the corner of East Thatch Avenue and South College Street, is the first of its kind in the world, and is America’s only 5-star, 5-diamond training hotel. The center is named in honor of Tony and Libba Rane. Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, built his career from scratch and later became the…

• Samford Ave

The Department of Theatre at Auburn University is dedicated to the education and professional training of theatre artists, scholars, and audiences within a liberal arts environment. Throughout an academic year, August-May, the Theatre hosts six productions in their two spaces, the Telfair Peet Theatre Mainstage and the Black Box Theatre. The mainstage seats…

• 121 S. Ninth St

Adjacent to the Lee County Courthouse square, the museum now houses over 5,000 artifacts Located in the heart of Opelika??s downtown historic district on the old Clement hotel site, the Museum of East Alabama first opened its doors in August 1989. The museum now houses over 5,000 artifacts including both 19th- and 20th-century local, state, and general…

• 500 N Railroad Avenue

Completed in 2019, Opelika Art Haus is a non-profit organization located in Opelika, Alabama that operates by partnering with local and regional artists to build art as a foundation for community. You can reserve a space to work on art or put your artwork on display for the community to see. Whether you are an aspiring artist, an art lover, or just looking…

• 222 E. Drake Ave

The JDCAC offers the Auburn community opportunities to experience visual and performing arts, entertain innovative ideas, develop new talent, and experience culture. There are classes and workshops, art exhibitions, theatre performances, art education programs, and special events that bring our community together. The facility offers a new ceramics studio…

• 1032 Railroad Ave

The mission of The Arts Association of East Alabama is to provide rewarding and exciting experiences for the citizens of this area by developing innovative programming that will stimulate interest in the arts, eagerness to learn through the arts, and broader participation in and support of the arts. The Southside Center for the Arts is alive with the sights…

• 1220 Fox Run Ave, Suite 216

The Opelika Community Theatre is a local community theater providing participants with opportunities to creatively express themselves. By providing quality entertainment for the community, their mission is to empower, enlighten, and involve the community to stimulate and develop their inner creative talents in writing, acting, music, dance, design, and…

• 222 East Drake Avenue

A group of more than 30 actors, artists, and crew dedicated to quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking theater to East Central Alabama. Three to four productions per year, including one children's production. Founded in 2003, AACT’s purpose, as outlined in our mission statement, “is to provide an opportunity for education and participation in the world…

The Sundilla Acoustic Concert Series was started in 1993 by Katie Lamar Smith, Jay Lamar, and Mary Littleton. In March 1996, the series found a permanent home at the historic Unitarian Fellowship building in Auburn, Alabama. A not-for-profit, award-winning, volunteer effort, the Sundilla series provides original, acoustic music in an intimate, gracious…

• 215 S. 9th St

This working courthouse located in Historic Downtown Opelika across from Courthouse Square is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The renovated structure was built in 1896 and serves as a wonderful example of the neoclassical revival style. The cornerstone for this building was laid in October 1896. It replaced an old frame building and was…

• 6500 Stage Road

Pioneer Park serves as a historical destination that offers many great exhibits, events, and displays. The museum is currently made up of nine structures: the Old Trade Center, the Ruth Purdy Speake Cabin, the Taylor Whatley Building, the Blacksmith Shop, Doctor McLain’s Office, the Loachapoka Gin Office, the Cook House, and a reconstruction of the…

• 101 S. Debardelaben St

Built in 1847, Pebble Hill is an antebellum cottage that was once the home of Colonel Nathaniel J. Scott. Today, it is home of the Auburn University Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities, which hosts periodic programs on art, history, literature and more. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and serves as a…

• 601 Ave A

Open Mon-Fri 8:00a.m. to 5:00p.m. Queen Anne Victorian home built in 1895 now serves as the Opelika Chamber of Commerce. Ask about the ghost who lives upstairs!