Telfair Academy Of Arts And Sciences - View this location on map Built in 1818 as a family townhouse, it remained in the Telfair family until 1875. It was then bequeathed to the Georgia Historical Society to be opened as a public museum. Among the oldest museums in the Southeast, it opened as a free art museum in 1886; it houses an important collection of paintings, including colonial and Federal portraits. 121 Barnard Street, Savannah, Georgia Historical, Cultural

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