Great art speaks to everyone in different ways, and the South’s impressive assortment of museums prove that art is for everyone. From the world-famous Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, to quieter collections like the one at the Walter Anderson Museum in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, our region is blessed with some of best art museums in the country and even the world. Here are 17 that are worth planning a trip around.
Walter P. Chrysler Jr., son of the namesake car company’s founder, acquired his first art piece at the age of 14 and never stopped. In 1971, he gifted 10,000 items as the core of the Chrysler Museum of Art. Today, the scope is even bigger and grander with 50 galleries and more than 35,000 objects. These include Bust of the Savior, one of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s last sculptures, as well as Italian Renaissance and Baroque creations from Jacopo Tintoretto, Peter Paul Rubens, and Diego Velázquez, along with works from Eugène Delacroix, Édouard Manet, Paul Cézanne, and Mary Cassatt.
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