Telfair Museum of Art
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The Telfair Museum of Art, located in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia, is the South’s first public art museum. Founded through the bequest of Mary Telfair (1791-1875), a prominent local citizen, the museum opened in 1886 in the Telfair family’s renovated Regency-style mansion.
Today, the museum encompasses an extensive collection of over 4,500 American and European paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, housed in three buildings: the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences (formerly the Telfair family home) and Owens-Thomas House, both National Historic Landmarks designed by British architect William Jay in the early nineteenth century; and the striking, contemporary Jepson Center for the Arts, designed by Moshe Safdie and completed in 2006.
