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Telfair Academy

121 Barnard St, Savannah, Georgia 31401 USA

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“Housing the finest art from the last two centuries”

Designed by British architectural prodigy William Jay in the neoclassical Regency style, the Telfair Academy is a former mansion built from 1818-1819 for Alexander Telfair, son of Revolutionary War patriot and Georgia governor Edward Telfair. In 1875, Alexander’s sister Mary – heir to the family fortune and last to bear the Telfair name – bequeathed the house and its furnishings to the Georgia Historical Society to be opened as a museum. After significant renovation by German-born architect Detlef Lienau, whose adaptations included the addition of the Sculpture Gallery and the Rotunda, the building opened to the public in 1886 as the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Telfair Academy contains two nineteenth-century period rooms and houses nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and European art from the museum’s permanent collection including paintings, works on paper, sculpture, and decorative arts. Highlights include fine examples of American Impressionism and Ashcan School Realism, with major paintings by Childe Hassam, Frederick Frieseke, Gari Melchers, Robert Henri, George Bellows, and George Luks.

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This was the last of the 3 Telfair properties we visited, and full disclosure, we were on a time crunch. We had about 30 minutes and got through it pretty quickly. First off, they have reserved... Read more

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It's not bad. Not great either. Worth a visit though! I thought about a quarter of the art on display was really interesting. The gift shop, like every gift shop in Savannah is totally worthless. Read more

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This is a nice thing to do if you've been to Savannah a million times, or staying for a long time, or just want to see the bird girl because you're a fan of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil... Read more

Telfair Academy

121 Barnard St
Savannah, Georgia
31401 USA
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  • Sun - Sat: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

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