Brooks Museum of Art
Brooks Museum of Art is a museum in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 90 m. The nearest named place is Ted Rust, a historic site 0.1 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 163 miles off.
The story
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is an art museum in Memphis, Tennessee. The Brooks Museum, which was founded in 1916, is the oldest and largest art museum in the state of Tennessee. The museum is a privately funded nonprofit institution located in Overton Park in Midtown Memphis.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1916.
Wikidata Q6815803, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 163.1 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 3.5 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 12.8 mi off the Mississippi Delta Great River Road
- 41.1 mi off the Crowley's Ridge Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Beale Street Landing · 4 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Ted Rust: 0.1 mi
- Levitt Shell (Raoul Wallenberg Shell): 0.1 mi
- J.T. Willingham Memorial Fountain: 0.1 mi
- Lilian May Elizabeth Nelson Byrd Memorial (DAR): 0.1 mi
- Sophie G. Freidman Memorial: 0.1 mi
- Overton Park Greensward: 0.3 mi
- Belvedere Park: 0.7 mi
- Williamson Park: 0.8 mi
- Dlugach Park: 1.1 mi
- Binghampton Park: 1.2 mi
- Hippopotamus: 0.4 mi
- Denizens Of The Deep South: 0.4 mi
- Crocodile: 0.4 mi
- Sumatran Tiger: 0.4 mi
- Turtoise: 0.4 mi
- Memphis Children's Museum: 1.7 mi
- Museum of Science and History, Pink Palace: 2.4 mi
- Woodruff-Fontaine House: 2.4 mi
- Sun Studio: 2.5 mi
- Mallory-Neely House: 2.5 mi
- Desoto Woods FootPath: 14.0 mi
- West Junction shore: 14.4 mi
- West Snake Beach: 14.5 mi
- West Potato Beach: 14.7 mi
- West Houston shore beach: 14.7 mi
- E. H. Crump Statue: 0.1 mi
- Big Kids: 1.1 mi
- Spinners: 1.1 mi
- St. Jude Thaddeus: 2.8 mi
- Danny Thomas and Child: 2.8 mi
- Clara Conway Memorial Gardens: 0.2 mi
- Fisher Memorial Garden: 0.6 mi
- Emeriti Grove: 3.6 mi
- Dixon Gardens: 5.1 mi
- Memphis Botanic Garden: 5.1 mi
- Audubon Park: 5.2 mi
- Ducks Unlimited Park: 6.3 mi
- Lichterman Nature Center: 8.3 mi
- Ducks Unlimited National Headquarters: 10.6 mi
- Germantown Greenway: 12.3 mi
- Chickasaw Bluff Number Four: 3.5 mi
- Chickasaw Bluff Number Three: 12.7 mi
- Hopefield: 4.6 mi
- Tennessee Welcome Center: 7.1 mi
- Memphis Propbuster's Field: 18.8 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 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:25 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:05 | 16:13 | 16:52 |
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, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/187420910
Day trips start here
- Memphis · 3 mi
- Bartlett · 8 mi
- West Memphis · 10 mi
- Marion · 12 mi
- Southaven · 12 mi
- Olive Branch · 16 mi
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