Jepson Center & Telfair Children's Art Museum, Contemporary art museum in Historic District, Savannah, United States.
The Jepson Center & Telfair Children's Art Museum is a contemporary art museum in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia, housed in a building with a glass and white concrete facade. It spreads its galleries across several floors and includes a dedicated section for children alongside its main exhibition spaces.
The museum was built to give Telfair Museums more room for contemporary art after its older buildings could no longer meet the demand. It opened in 2006 and was one of the first major new museum buildings constructed in downtown Savannah in many decades.
The Jepson Center is one of the few venues in the American South where contemporary art and a dedicated children's museum share the same building. The children's section is designed around doing and making, not just looking, which gives it a different feel from a standard gallery visit.
The building has elevators and clear signs, making it easy to move between floors even on a first visit. It is part of the Telfair Museums group, so a combined ticket gives access to other sites in the city as well.
The building was designed by Moshe Safdie, an architect best known for his work in Canada and Israel, which made him an unusual choice for a city in the American South. His white concrete volume was placed in deliberate contrast to the red brick buildings that surround it in the historic district.
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