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Memphis Brooks Museum of Art: Memphis: Shelby: West: Art: Collections include Italian Renaissance, Baroque, Impressionist, and 20th-century artists, English portraiture, contemporary paintings, 19th- and 20th-century sculpture and decorative arts Memphis Music Hall of Fame: Memphis: Shelby: West: Music: Memphis musicians Memphis Railroad ...
The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, founded in 1916, is the oldest and largest fine art museum in the state of Tennessee. A smaller art museum, the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in east Memphis focuses on impressionism. Downtown Memphis is home to the Peabody Place Museum, the largest collection of 19th-century Chinese art in the nation.
Title page of the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances. The Pittsburgh City Council serves as the legislative body in the City of Pittsburgh. It consists of nine members. [2] City council members are chosen by plurality elections in each of nine districts. The city operates under a mayor-council system of local governance.
The headquarters for the museum is covered in pink Georgian marble. The city of Memphis acquired the mansion when Clarence Saunders, the founder of Piggly Wiggly, became bankrupt. He had been building the residence in 1923, but lost a fortune, and the home, due to financial reversals on Wall Street. [2] [3]
Carnamah Historical Society is an Australian historical society whose Virtual Museum: to be known and distinguished as Carnamah won a Museums and Galleries National Award in 2014. [36] Central Illinois' On-Line Broadcast Museum is virtual museum that documents, in detail, the history of television stations broadcasting in Central Illinois. [37]
Pink Palace in Memphis (2008) The Pink Palace Family of Museums is a group of museums maintained by the City of Memphis and Memphis Museums, Inc. They display collections of historical, educational and technological significance. [1] The following museums are part of the group: The Pink Palace Museum and Planetarium in Memphis.
The city of Memphis is split between two congressional districts. The western three-fourths of the city, including downtown, forms the core of the 9th District, which has been represented by Democrat Steve Cohen since 2007. Cohen was the first white Democrat to represent a significant portion of Memphis in more than 40 years.
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