Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
5 expert reviews
“A Smithsonian affiliate, the museum showcases Italian Renaissance and Baroque paintings, British and French Impressionists, and one of the South’s finest collections of English portraiture.”
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Frommer's
"First opened in 1916 as the Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, this is the oldest art museum in Tennessee; it contains one of the largest art collections of any museum in the mid-South."
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Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"At this well-regarded art museum on the park's western fringe, the excellent permanent collection encompasses everything from Renaissance sculpture to Impressionists to abstract expressionists."
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Michelin Guide
1 Star
"Exhibits in the original 1916 Beaux-Arts building range from Greek and Roman antiquities to the Renaissance."
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Fodor's
"The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, a Greek-columned edifice east of Downtown in Overton Park, houses a collection of fine and decorative arts from antiquity to the present."
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