Telfair Academy

The oldest museum of art in the South, the Telfair Academy is housed in a Regency building designed by Jay Whitney (who was also the architect of the Owens-Thomas House) that dominates Telfair Square. It is home to the Bird Girl statue appearing on the cover of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, as well as paintings by 19th-century American and European masters and temporary exhibits. The galleries were once the scene of grand Southern living, and remnants of this can be glimpsed in one room's hand-painted wallpaper, the outline of an indoor pool and a rustic kitchen in the basement as well as a lovely Regency interior bridge.