Telfair Museum of Art

The Telfair Museum of Art, located in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia, is the Southern United States’ first public art museum. Founded through the bequest of Mary Telfair (1791–1875), a prominent local citizen, and operated by the Georgia Historical Society until 1920, the museum opened in 1886 in the Telfair family’s renovated Regency-style mansion, known as the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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