Telfair Academy Of Arts & Sciences

Visiting Savannah for the first time, we checked out both the Jepson Center and the Telfair Academy. We enjoyed our time at the two-story, 200-year old mansion that sits in the historic district of Savannah. Inside the 19th century-period rooms are a wealth of American and European art, all of which makes for a well-worth visit if you're into historical buildings and art museums.

Currently, the oldest public art museum in the South and the first in the U.S. founded by a woman, the Telfair will take you in with its architectural design and vast works of art that Mary Telfair accumulated throughout

Telfair is must if you're an art lover visiting Savannah. This museum is has a variety of classic art from around the 1800s-1900s. This museum is a nice choice if you're not into modern art. Telfair is one of the most beautiful museums I've visited. From the art to the furniture, everything is impeccable. I could sit in here all day just admiring the beauty of the building. There are three floors in total showcasing different art styles. I highly recommend visiting Telfair if you're looking for something to do and want to see some spectacular art and architecture.

Paid $74.09 for their 46th holiday tour of homes and inns. It was less of a holiday tour and more sales pitch. I’ve been on these before where we visited 6 or 8 grand homes that were professionally decorated for Christmas. This was just 4 museum homes that we have already seen, 4 inns that were very basic and just using this for marketing and 8 upper middle class homes that were not professionally decorated for Christmas. Many people on the tour felt it was just a high priced home tour. Also, the volunteers are not consistent from house to house. 4 houses let us wear our shoes, 2 were okay with

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 AKA THE BOOK!

The architecture and the history is cool. When you buy a ticket, you get 3 locations for $20, which is awesome. You get the Telfair Academy, Jepson Center and the Owens House and Slave Quarters.

The do give a military discount. There is street parking around the square.

This beautiful museum displayed historic rooms as they were in their prime. My jaw dropped when we entered the gallery to see the expansive space and beautiful works of art. This is a must see in Savannah, not to mention a great deal getting access to 3 museums for $20.

We visited this museum on a Saturday morning when they opened (at 9 a.m.). You were still required to wear a mask while inside (likely due to local government mandates).

The ticket you buy entitles you to visit 3 museums: the Telfair Academy, the Jepsom Gallery, and a 3rd location (some sort of slave quarters?). We were only available to visit museums for the same day, and they noted when we bought our ticket that the slave quarters required advance reservations and / or an up to 1-hour wait...

We first visited the Academy. It is spread over 3 floors, with interesting architecture and period

The museum was beautiful. You can get through it in 30 mins. The pictures invoked emotions. I recommend going. However, the girl at the front desk was awful. My friend asked her to repeat herself because she couldn't hear through her mask and the plexiglass. The girl then preceded to yell at us. Every question she asked or answered she yelled and spoke slowly as if we were def and dumb. I would never want her as the face of any type of business. It happened as we were checking out and buying stuff. And continued for several mins. Had it happened in the beginning, we wouldn't have gone

Wow! We really loved the variety of art media! I liked the students' studio, where I had fun swaying & watching the different colors pop! All in all, it was a beautiful museum & it exceeded my expectations!

Great spot especially for young kids. 2nd and 3rd floor had interactive Artzeum experiences where kids could build and do art projects.
The building is well designed with natural light pouring in and a very open feel. Small cafe service downstairs. Exhibits had some range and a good amount of digital art. You can spend a nice afternoon here. Highly recommended.

I am not the biggest art fan, but I enjoyed this museum. I loved the variety of sculptures, paintings, and photographs. They also had a few interactive exhibits, which I thought were really cool. The staff was nice and the air conditioned building was a great break from the hot heat outside.

This was nice little museum with a variety of art mediums. We caught the last day of the Picasso to Hockney exhibit which was nice. It was quite informative.
We stopped here while we waited to visit the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters. It’s great that there are 3 museums bundled into one ticket.

Great museum to go in conjunction with the Telfair Museum across the way! Lots for kids and adults to admire and do! Lots of space to roam around, beautiful floor to ceiling Windows with tons of natural light in the space, and some great architecture! And I loved seeing the statue from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil! Would definitely go back!

I didn't spend as much time as I would have liked to during my visit because I had an appointment to get to, but I did get enough of a glimpse to say the art and sculptures are worth the trip.

The tour is self guided and again, with usage of an audio guide accessed from your smartphone.

Here is additional info to describe the museum found on Wikipedia --

"The Telfair Academy is a historic mansion at 121 Barnard Street in Savannah, Georgia. It was designed by William Jay and built in 1818, and is one of a small number of Jay's surviving works. It is one of three sites owned by

You could call this review as seen from a child's eye even though I'm 53 years old now. I remember as a child in 3rd grade at Heard elementary we visited on a field trip if I remember correctly we also had a walking tour around the squares seeing old houses and the stories that lady told about this great historic city are etched in my mind . It doesn't matter the room decor or how things are placed to intrigue your senses because just being in Savannah take a deep breath block out the hustle and bustle around you and really take in the history because it's all around you . If

I was very glad to have gone to a museum before leaving Savannah. When you purchase a ticket at the Telfair Academy, you gain access to two other museums. I did not imagine how beautiful it was inside the museum. The art collection and exhibits were also very good. If you haven't come here, I would suggest checking it out! It's a good way to spend a few hours in your morning/afternoon.

What to say about the Jepson Center for the Arts?
It's a breath of fresh air, literally, in the hot Savannah summers.
The facade is so modern, yet so respectful of the colonial architecture that it makes you want to stay in forever. Admission includes the other 2 Telflair Museums. The gift shop and restaurants are right up front making you want to stay in the lobby but don't, keep going in and be amazed!
Jepsen has more contemporary art.
Great job!

Really neat museum that gives a lot of historical information about Savannah. We did the 3 museum tour and really enjoyed it that way, very full and exhausting day though.

Beautiful building, not really a lot of organization in my opinion but I still enjoyed walking around and taking everything in. Gorgeous art, not my favorite museum but a good way to kill some time.

Savannah...you don't come here for the art, or at least very few people do. However, it was raining like crazy all afternoon, and we just wanted to be somewhere indoors, with AIR CONDITIONING!

Added Bonus: the art was pretty good too! I'm no art history major or a self taught hippy painter, but appreciate a good painting, elegant sculpture, or the weird modern pieces that old conservatives can't stand.

$20 per an adult, but that also gets you into a couple other attractions too, such as the historical Owens House.

I can't say that the collection is all that impressive, especially because the impressionist works aren't on display right now.

We enjoyed our visit, though, mainly because of our engaging tour guide, Jackie. She told the story of Mary Telfair in a way that made the founder of the museum come alive. She also did a great job of explaining how the Telfair home had been transformed into the museum.

The correct name for this collection is the Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences. And if that isn't impressive enough, consider that this is the oldest public art museum in the South and the first art museum in America founded by a woman, Mary Telfair. By the way, Miss Mary is said to haunt the building, shaking paintings on the walls from time to time.

I noticed several one and two star reviews of this institution. Well, no accounting for taste! If you're expecting huge, rambling exhibitions that boggle the mind, then perhaps those lesser reviews may be accurate, at least in the eyes

I eagerly anticipated my visit here because every time I've been in Savannah over the years, my timing never worked out. I made it a point, this time, to come to Savannah just to come here.

Maybe my expectations were too high but the Telfair is only fair. Sure, it's a great old building with a long history. The Rotunda Gallery is an expansive and impressive room to lounge about looking at the paintings on the wall. The upstairs galleries are tiny, though, and bumping into other visitors can't be helped.

Currently, the 'Bird Girl' sculpture made famous from being on

Came here with the Ghost tours... it was just "meh"... the security said they've never seen any ghost or anything that seemed creepy. So not impressed.
Though the painting of the circle of life was pretty neat.
I wouldn't have paid $20 to come here... way overpriced.

If you like small house museums, this is the place for you. Are there Monet and Degas? Nope. BUT it's a lovely house and they have a delightful collection of local art (especially American impressionists, probably about 30 works). They also have some small historical exhibits and period rooms. The nearby affiliated Jepson Center has a nice rotating collection of modern work.

Is this museum by itself worth the price admission? Probably not. But it also gets you into two other museums (the Jepson, which does modern art, and the Owens-Thomas House, a period museum which does tours). I didn&apos