SCAD Museum of Art, Contemporary art museum in downtown Savannah, United States.

The SCAD Museum of Art is an art museum in downtown Savannah, housed in a restored historic building and presenting both rotating exhibitions and permanent collections. The permanent holdings focus on African American art, photography, and contemporary works across different media.

The museum occupies the 1856 Gray Building, a Greek Revival structure that once housed the headquarters of the Central of Georgia Railway and is the only surviving antebellum railroad complex in the country. It was founded in 2002 as the Earle W. Newton Center for British American Studies, renamed the SCAD Museum of Art in 2006, and reopened on Oct. 29, 2011 after a major rehabilitation. The adjoining 1853 depot is the focus of further restoration.

The Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies anchors the museum, holding one of the largest collections of African American art in the United States, with works by Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence and Edward Mitchell Bannister. The André Leon Talley Gallery, named for the Vogue contributing editor and SCAD trustee, sits alongside it. The collection began with Detroit surgeon Walter O. Evans, who started buying African American art in the late 1970s when galleries and museums showed little of it, and donated part of his holdings in 2006.

The museum is located in central Savannah and is easy to reach on foot from most points in the historic district. A half-day is generally enough to see the permanent collection and one or two temporary exhibitions at a relaxed pace.

The Walter O. Evans Collection held here covers more than three centuries of African American art and is one of the largest of its kind in the country. Many of the artists represented in it are rarely found in other major museum collections.