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Exterior view of the Memphis Brooks Art Museum, with the "Evanescent" exhibit by famed Australian artists Renzo B. Larriviere and Zara Pasfield of studio Atelier Sisu
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Brooks Museum of Art

Memphis


At this well-regarded art museum on Overton Park's western fringe, the excellent permanent collection encompasses everything from Renaissance sculpture to the work of impressionists and abstract expressionists.


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