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The oldest and largest art museum in Tennessee, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art has welcomed visitors since 1916, when it opened as a gift to the city in the leafy surroundings of Overton Park. Founded in memory of a local patron and housed in an elegant Beaux-Arts building that has been expanded over the decades, the museum has long served as the cultural anchor of its park setting and a cornerstone of the city's artistic life. Its permanent collection spans more than five thousand years of h...