The Kennesaw Museum Foundation (KMF) was founded in 1998 and has played a crucial role in expanding the Southern Museum.

KMF is dedicated to raising dollars, forming community partnerships, and expanding museum interpretation to tell a broader and more inclusive narrative. A strategic plan “All Aboard for 2026” was adopted in 2016 with a focus on augmenting the museum mission through greater inclusion of southern social history. In 2018, the Centennial Confederate Statues were relocated from the Museum front lobby into a new internal gallery “Post Civil War Perspectives: 1865 to present” which focuses on how our opinions and memories concerning the Civil War have evolved and continue to change. Through the Silenced Voices initiative, KMF is assisting the Museum by promoting understanding of the southern experience to all people, past and present, regardless of gender, age, race, creed, economic status, religious and non-religious belief, sexual orientation, and heritage.