Telfair Museum of Art

Telfair Museum of Art Review

The oldest public art museum in the Southeast was designed by William Jay in 1819 for Alexander Telfair and sits across the street from Telfair Square. Within its marble rooms are American, French, and Dutch impressionist paintings; German tonalist paintings; a large collection of works by Kahlil Gibran; plaster casts of the Elgin Marbles, the Venus de Milo, and the Laocoön, among other classical sculptures; and some of the Telfair family furnishings, including a Duncan Phyfe sideboard and Savannah-made silver. During the Savannah Music Festival there are intimate, classical music performances here that are memorable.