The Cartersville museum hit the hallmark on Friday morning. The museum opened in January 2009 with eye-popping exhibits on fossils and minerals, a gallery dedicated to aviation and a state-of-the-art digital planetarium.
It was previously called the Weinman Museum and focused mostly on northwest Georgia's mining history and mineral-rich earth. That closed in 2007 and was absorbed into Tellus, named for the Roman goddess of the Earth.





