The 1819 Regency mansion that became the South's first public art museum, and home of the Bird Girl.
Telfair Academy
The Academy occupies the Telfair family's 1819 mansion on Telfair Square and opened as a museum in 1886, the first public art museum in the South. Its period rooms sit alongside nineteenth-century American and European painting. The Bird Girl statue from the cover of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is here, moved in from Bonaventure.