Last updated: 1/21/2011
1 Tenth StreetAugusta, GA 30901
Tuesday - Saturday
10 AM - 5 PM
Closed Mondays and major holidays
Tuesday - Friday
10 AM - 5 PM
Please call the library (706-828-3801) before you visit, to ensure that someone will be available to assist you.
Adults $5br />
Youth, 13–17, $3
Child, 12 and younger, Free
Student with ID, $3
Military with ID, $3
Senior, 65 and older, $3
Museum members, Free
No admission charge on Sundays
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Mr. Kevin Grogan
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The Morris Museum of Art, located on the Riverwalk in downtown Augusta, Georgia, is the first museum dedicated to the art and artists of the American South. The collection includes holdings of nearly 5,000 paintings, works on paper, photographs, and sculptures dating from the late-eighteenth century to the present. In addition to the permanent collection galleries, the museum hosts eight to ten temporary special exhibitions every year.
The museum also houses the Center for the Study of Southern Art, a reference and research library that includes archives pertaining to artists working in the South.
The library is open to museum members with a valid membership card and museum visitors, on payment of admission fee (or display of a museum visitor's pin). Payment for admission to the library will also entitle the visitor to admission to the museum
The librarian is available Tuesday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. for reference or research assistance. Please call the library before you visit, to ensure that the librarian will be available to help you. If you do not live in the Augusta, Georgia, area, your local public library or a nearby university library may have the information you need.
According to the museum's charter, The purpose of the Morris Museum of Art shall be: to enhance the quality of life in the Central Savannah River Area and to broaden the knowledge and understanding of the visual arts in the Southeastern United States by collecting, preserving and displaying works of art focused upon, but not limited to, the art and artists of the American South; by creating and hosting quality traveling exhibitions; and by developing and maintaining a library and research center focusing on Southern American painting; and to contribute to the general appreciation of art through lecture programs, symposia, publications, and other educational programs.
First incorporated as a nonprofit foundation in 1985, the Morris Museum of Art was established by William S. Morris III in memory of his parents William Shivers Morris, Jr,. and Florence Hill Morris.
At its tenth anniversary celebration in September 2002, the museum's founder, William S. Morris III, offered a vision of the museum's future that included the continued expansions of the museum's presence as an important contributor to the community's social and cultural resources and economic vitality, as well as to the country's understanding and appreciation of the culture of the region.
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