Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art
Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art is a museum in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 81 m. The nearest named place is The Cotton Museum at the Memphis Cotton Exchange, a museum 0.1 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 162 miles off.
The story
The Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art is located at 119 South Main Street at the intersection of Gayoso Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The museum was opened in 1998 as the Peabody Place Museum and in January 2007 it received its present name. The museums collection is based on the private collection of Memphis developers Jack and Marilyn Belz, who owned the Peabody Hotel and Peabody Place. The Belz features over 1,000 objects, including works of jade, tapestries, furniture, carvings, and other historical and artistic objects. The museum also houses one of the finest collections of pieces from the Qing dynasty.
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Dates from 1998.
Wikidata Q4884956, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
- 161.5 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 0.6 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 11.0 mi off the Mississippi Delta Great River Road
- 37.7 mi off the Crowley's Ridge Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Beale Street Landing · 1 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Eddie Murphy Star Marker: 0.1 mi
- Sidewalk of Stars at the Orpheum: 0.1 mi
- Gibson Guitar Factory Tour: 0.3 mi
- Memphis Riverboats: 0.3 mi
- Mississippi River Model Walk: 0.4 mi
- Schools For Freedmen Historical Marker: 0.1 mi
- Elvis Presley Memorial: 0.1 mi
- Lansky Brothers Clothier to the King Historical Marker: 0.1 mi
- Beale Street Center for Southern Folklore Sign: 0.2 mi
- Hooks Brothers Photography Historical Marker: 0.2 mi
- Elvis Presley Plaza: 0.1 mi
- Handy Park: 0.2 mi
- Cobblestone Landing: 0.2 mi
- MLK Reflections Park: 0.2 mi
- Beale Street Landing: 0.3 mi
- The Cotton Museum at the Memphis Cotton Exchange: 0.1 mi
- Memphis Music Hall of Fame: 0.1 mi
- Memphis Rock 'N Soul Museum: 0.3 mi
- The Eel on Beale (Withers Museum): 0.3 mi
- W. C. Handy Home and Museum: 0.3 mi
- Desoto Woods FootPath: 14.1 mi
- West Junction shore: 17.8 mi
- West Snake Beach: 17.8 mi
- West Potato Beach: 18.0 mi
- West Houston shore beach: 18.1 mi
- I Have Been to the Mountaintop: 0.2 mi
- Whirl: 0.4 mi
- Elvis Presley: 0.5 mi
- Upstander: 0.5 mi
- St. Jude Thaddeus: 1.0 mi
- Clara Conway Memorial Gardens: 3.4 mi
- Fisher Memorial Garden: 3.7 mi
- Emeriti Grove: 6.8 mi
- Meditation Garden: 6.9 mi
- Dixon Gardens: 8.1 mi
- Ducks Unlimited Park: 3.6 mi
- Audubon Park: 8.3 mi
- Lichterman Nature Center: 11.4 mi
- Ducks Unlimited National Headquarters: 13.9 mi
- Germantown Greenway: 15.6 mi
- Chickasaw Bluff Number Four: 0.4 mi
- Chickasaw Bluff Number Three: 12.3 mi
- Hopefield: 1.5 mi
- Tennessee Welcome Center: 7.5 mi
- Memphis Propbuster's Field: 22.1 mi
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:39 | 19:12 |
| June solstice | 05:47 | 19:41 | 20:19 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:25 | 18:59 |
| December solstice | 07:06 | 16:14 | 16:53 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 42 | 46 | 54 | 63 | 72 | 80 | 83 | 82 | 76 | 65 | 53 | 45 |
| Precip in | 4.1 | 4.5 | 5.7 | 5.9 | 5.3 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 3.4 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Memphis Intl AP, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/2929545340
Day trips start here
- Memphis · 1 mi
- West Memphis · 7 mi
- Marion · 9 mi
- Bartlett · 11 mi
- Southaven · 13 mi
- Olive Branch · 18 mi
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