United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, 33.77153, -84.22641United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.387981708/2022The museum's two galleries, South and Skylight, are known for their intimacy and the carefully chosen music that accompanies each exhibition. With its hardwood floors, white columns, and earth-red walls, the building is often called a jewel itself.Photograph of the interior of a gallery at the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. The spacious gallery features hardwood floors, white columns, and earth-red walls. Works hang on the walls, and several sculptures are exhibited on pillars.The mission of the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art is to exhibit figurative or realistic art that is international, spiritual, or metaphysical. Oglethorpe University is a small private university, and its art museum is the only one on such a campus in the Southeast that regularly shows nationally and internationally recognized exhibitions. The museum has a small but important permanent collection stressing its mission.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/oglethorpe-university-museum-artForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/oglethorpe-university-museum-artForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaMuseums--Georgia--AtlantaArt museums--Georgia--AtlantaArt--Georgia--AtlantaColumns--Georgia--AtlantaCollege art museums--Georgia--AtlantaPainting--Georgia--AtlantaSculpture--Georgia--AtlantaCollege buildings--Georgia--AtlantaOglethorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.). Museum of ArtOglethorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.)Oglethorpe University Museum of ArtStillImage