Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Area history, culture 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
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.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
The three murals were commissioned in 1934 by the Public Works of Art Project of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's government, as part of a series of numerous art and public works projects to employ artists and others during the Great Depression. [4] Callicott, who died in 2004, taught at the Memphis College of Art. [5]
The Memphis Brooks Museum received a donation of 75 works — including paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures and videos — by Black artists.
It is the principal art museum of the University of Memphis. The museum was opened in 1981 as The University Gallery; in 1994 the gallery received its present name. [1] The museum is open from Monday to Saturday from 9 am until 5 pm, it is closed on University holidays. Admission to the museum is free and there is no charge for tours. [1]
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, America's first natural history museum There are natural history museums in all 50 of the United States and the District of Columbia . The oldest such museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , was founded in 1812.
The park grounds contain the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis Zoo, a 9-hole golf course, the Memphis College of Art, Rainbow Lake, Veterans Plaza, the Greensward, and other features. The Old Forest Arboretum of Overton Park, one of the few remaining old growth forests in Tennessee, is a natural arboretum with labeled trees along trails.