GeorgiaThe Oglethorpe University Museum of Art sits on the university's Brookhaven campus in Atlanta and is distinctive as the only museum on a small private university campus in the Southeast that regularly presents nationally and internationally recognized exhibitions. It began in 1984 as the Oglethorpe University Art Gallery and became a full museum in 1993 after renovations expanded it to more than 7,000 square feet. Its permanent collection holds over a thousand objects spanning seven centuries, with particular strengths in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French drawings, prints, and paintings, and a notable concentration of Japanese porcelain from the seventeenth to early twentieth century. The museum's stated mission emphasizes figurative or realistic art that is international, spiritual, or metaphysical in character.
Oglethorpe University Museum of ART
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Oglethorpe University Museum of ART is a museum in Atlanta, Fulton County. It is one of 28 museums documented in Fulton County, among 643 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.8738, -84.3304 near Atlanta. The nearest cataloged historic site is Brookhaven Historic District (historical marker), about 1.3 miles away. Others within a short drive include Brookhaven Historic District, Hascall's Div. Joins Cox's Line of March, and Sardis Methodist Church and Cemetery.
This record is drawn from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Oglethorpe University Museum of Art sits on the university's Brookhaven campus in Atlanta and is distinctive as the only museum on a small private university campus in the Southeast that regularly presents nationally and internationally recognized exhibitions. It began in 1984 as the Oglethorpe University Art Gallery and became a full museum in 1993 after renovations expanded it to more than 7,000 square feet. Its permanent collection holds over a thousand objects spanning seven centuries, with particular strengths in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French drawings, prints, and paintings, and a notable concentration of Japanese porcelain from the seventeenth to early twentieth century. The museum's stated mission emphasizes figurative or realistic art that is international, spiritual, or metaphysical in character.
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