Telfair Museums: 200 Years of Art, History, & Architecture in Savannah, GA

Owens-Thomas House
& Slave Quarters

Open 10am–5pm today

Three museums bridging 200 years of art, history, & architecture in Savannah.

Happenings

‘Midnight’ Masquerade in the Mansion

October 18 at 8pm Telfair Academy

Don your masks for a momentous night of revelry in the beautiful, historic Telfair Academy for its 200th anniversary! This year’s theme of our annual soirée is Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, a celebration of the city’s notorious characters and the novel’s intrigue.

Before Midnight: Bonaventure and the Bird Girl

April 12, 2019–ongoing Telfair Academy

Telfair Museums presents Sylvia Shaw Judson’s iconic sculpture Bird Girl within the context of the history and art of Bonaventure Cemetery.

Source to Sea: Ansley West Rivers

May 10November 3, 2019 Jepson Center

This #art912 exhibition focuses on Ansley West Rivers' Seven Rivers photographic series. Also on view will be large-scale and painterly maps of the seven rivers made using historic photographic processes such as cyanotype, palladium, and van dyke printing.

If These Walls Could Talk: 200 Years of William Jay Architecture

April 19, 2019–2020 Telfair Academy

In the three short years between his arrival from England in 1817 to his departure for Charleston in 1820, William Jay changed the face of Savannah.

Katherine Sandoz: katniss

January 17, 2019–ongoing Jepson Center

This large-scale, site-specific sculpture forms a constellation of abstracted botanical shapes inspired by the aquatic Sagittaria plant genus. Suspended from the ceiling, the installation transforms itself as you shift your location and perspective, aided by the ever-changing light conditions throughout the atrium.

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