High Museum of Art
Atlanta · founded 1905
The High Museum of Art (colloquially the High) is the largest museum for visual art in the Southeastern United States. Located in Atlanta, Georgia (on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the city's arts district), the High is 312,000 square feet (28,985 m2) and a division of the Woodruff Arts Center. The High organizes and presents exhibitions of international and national significance alongside its comprehensive collection of more than 20,000 works of art, and is especially known for its 19th- and 20th-century American decorative arts, folk and self-taught art, modern and contemporary art, and photography.
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What to see
Madonna and Child with Saints James the Great and Jerome
Moretto da Brescia, 1517.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
A Bit of the Roman Aqueduct
George Inness, 1852.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Portrait of Ralph Curtis on the Beach at Scheveningen
1880.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac
Giovanni Battista Gaulli, 1700.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs
Sebastiano Ricci, 1705.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Belisarius
François Gérard, 1837.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Plan your visit
Hours
Published on the museum’s own site. Confirm on www.high.org before you travel.
Getting there
1280 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30309.
On their own site
Opening hours, tickets and current exhibitions are on the museum’s own site.
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