Georgia Museum of Art
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Georgia Museum of Art is a museum in Georgia, at a recorded elevation of 231 m. Jacks Creek Mountain stands 300 m to the west-southwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Georgia Museum of Art is an art museum in Athens, Georgia, United States, associated with the University of Georgia (UGA). The museum is both the university's academic museum and, since 1982, the official art museum of the state of Georgia. The permanent collection consists of American paintings, primarily 19th- and 20th-century; American, European and Asian works on paper; the Samuel H. Kress Study Collection of Italian Renaissance paintings; growing collections of southern decorative arts and Asian art; and a strong collection of works by African American artists. It numbers more than 17,000 works, growing every year. The Georgia Museum opened on UGA's North Campus in 1948, in a building that now houses the university president's office, then moved to the Performing and Visual Arts Complex on UGA's East Campus in 1996. In 2011, it completed an extensive expansion and remodeling of its building, paid for entirely with externally raised funds and designed by Gluckman Mayner Architects, New York, that has allowed it to display its permanent collection continually. It organizes its own exhibitions in-house, creates traveling exhibitions for other museums and galleries and plays host to traveling exhibitions. The foundation of the museum's collection, the Eva Underhill Holbrook Memorial Collection of American Art, a collection of 100 American paintings, was donated to UGA in 1945 by Holbrook in memory of his first wife. Included in this collection are works by Frank Weston Benson, William Merritt Chase, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Jacob Lawrence, John Singer Sargent, and Theodore Robinson.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1982.
Wikidata Q5547611, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 231 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- University of Georgia
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Alan Jaworski Plant Science Amphitheater: 0.3 mi
- Mary Kahrs Warnell Memorial Garden: 0.3 mi
- D.W. Brooks Mall: 0.3 mi
- Myers Quad: 0.6 mi
- GGY Quad: 0.6 mi
- Archangel: 0.0 mi
- Ascension: 0.0 mi
- Split: 0.1 mi
- Darwin-God Bust: 0.4 mi
- Ellie the Exploration Dawg: 0.5 mi
- Memorial Garden: 0.8 mi
- Old Athens Cemetery: 0.9 mi
- Herty Field: 1.1 mi
- Chapel Bell: 1.1 mi
- The Red and Black: 1.2 mi
- Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden: 0.0 mi
- D.W. Brooks Connect to Protect Garden: 0.3 mi
- UGA Trial Gardens: 0.4 mi
- Rosella’s Garden: 0.8 mi
- President's Garden: 1.0 mi
- Georgia Museum of Natural History: 0.3 mi
- Church-Waddel-Brumby House: 1.5 mi
- T.R.R. Cobb House: 1.6 mi
- Porcelain and Decorative Arts Museum: 2.8 mi
- Carter-Coile Country Doctors Museum: 5.5 mi
- Tillman Tract: 1.9 mi
- Whitehall Shoals Heritage and Natural Area: 2.3 mi
- Five Acre Woods: 2.4 mi
- Barber Creek Battle Site: 2.6 mi
- Trove Open Area: 6.5 mi
- Athens Gneiss Drill Core: 0.6 mi
- The Arch: 1.2 mi
- Tree That Owns Itself: 1.2 mi
- Broad River Outpost: 20.9 mi
- Pendergrass Flea Market: 22.0 mi
- Coon Mountain: 7.7 mi
- Turkey Creek Mountain: 16.3 mi
- Jacks Creek Mountain: 17.0 mi
- Heart Attack Hill: 21.0 mi
- Big Mountain: 21.6 mi
- Barnett Shoals: 7.6 mi
- Scull Shoals: 15.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Georgia Museum of Art. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacks Creek Mountain | WSW 241° | 300 m | 17.0 mi |
| Turkey Creek Mountain | WSW 242° | 273 m | 16.3 mi |
| Big Mountain | ESE 116° | 230 m | 21.6 mi |
| Coon Mountain | SSE 156° | 195 m | 7.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:38 | 19:12 | 19:45 |
| June solstice | 06:24 | 20:12 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:22 | 18:59 | 19:32 |
| December solstice | 07:36 | 16:51 | 17:29 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 44 | 48 | 55 | 62 | 71 | 78 | 81 | 80 | 74 | 64 | 53 | 47 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 4.9 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Athens BEN Epps AP, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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