Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Museum
- Description: art museum in Memphis, Tennessee
- Also known as: “Brooks Museum of Art” and “Memphis Brooks Museum”
- Address: 1934 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, TN 38104
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Overton Park Shell and Circuit Playhouse.
Overton Park Shell
Theater building
The Overton Park Shell is an open-air amphitheater and museum located in Overton Park, Memphis, Tennessee. Elvis Presley gave his first paid concert there on July 30, 1954. Overton Park Shell is situated 350 feet north of Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.
Circuit Playhouse
Theater building
Circuit Playhouse is a theater building, which is situated 3,700 feet south of Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.
Playhouse on the Square
Theater building
Playhouse on the Square is a regional theatre company located in Memphis, Tennessee. It is owned by Circuit Playhouse, Inc, which operates two other Memphis theaters. Playhouse on the Square is situated 3,900 feet south of Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Midtown and Lenox.
Midtown
Suburb
Midtown is a collection of neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee, to the east of Downtown. Midtown is home to many cultural attractions, institutions of higher education, and noteworthy pieces of architecture.
Lenox
Hamlet
Lenox is a neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee. It is bounded by Central Avenue in the south, Union Avenue in the north, Cooper Street in the west and East Parkway South in the east.
Binghampton
Quarter
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Binghampton is a neighborhood on an edge of Midtown in Memphis, Tennessee. It is named after W. H. Bingham, an Irish immigrant, hotelier, planter, magistrate, politician, and entrepreneur who founded a town to the east and slightly north of the Memphis city limits in 1893.
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
- Categories: art museum, nonprofit organization, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Shelby, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.14452° or 35° 8′ 40″ northLongitude
-89.99461° or 89° 59′ 41″ westElevation
292 feet (89 metres)Open location code
867G42V4+R5OpenStreetMap ID
way 187420910OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumGeoNames ID
4608825Wikidata ID
Q6815803
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Memphis Brooks Museum of Art” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Museu d’Art Brooks de Memphis”
- Chinese: “孟菲斯布魯克斯藝術博物館”
- Danish: “Memphis Brooks Museum of Art”
- French: “Memphis Brooks Museum of Art”
- German: “Memphis Brooks Museum of Art”
- Japanese: “ブルックス美術館”
- Russian: “Художественный музей Брукс”
- Slovenian: “Brooksov umetnostni muzej v Memphisu”
- Ukrainian: “Художній музей Брукс”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Primate Canyon and African Veldt.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Ted Rust and Levitt Shell (Raoul Wallenberg Shell).
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