Brown's Guide to Georgia

The Altama Museum of Art and History collection is housed in the neoclassic-style Brazell House, which was built in 1911 and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Museum’s permanent collection includes the Norma Damon Libby Collection of Staffordshire porcelain, one of the largest collections in the country on public display with over 260 pieces and approximately 210 different patterns represented.

Also housed in the Altama Museum, is a group of 24 first edition, hand-colored prints by John James Audubon from his Quadrupeds of North America. Other permanent collections include hand-colored bird prints by John Could, c.1840, and William Morris, c.1857, and chromographs of birds by Jacob Studer, c.1881. Wooden sculptures, a 200-piece collection of 20th century Southern art, and a collection of 18th and 19th century botanicals, including English, French and German prints, is also part of the museum’s permanent collection. Exhibits showcasing the artwork of local students are displayed each April. The Girl Scout room displays scouting memorabilia dating back to 1929, when the Vidalia Women’s Club house used to be the Girl Scout Day Camp and Little House Girl Scout Nursery.