{"id":710461,"date":"2026-06-18T00:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710461\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T00:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:45:09","slug":"memphis-art-museum-to-open-with-free-admission-for-shelby-county-residents-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710461\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Art Museum to open with free admission for Shelby County residents | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEMPHIS, Tenn. &#8211; The Memphis Art Museum, alongside Mayor Paul Young, announced it will open its 123,000 square foot cultural campus to the public in December.<\/p>\n<p>And the best part is, admission will be free for Shelby County residents forever.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders said the museum reflects Memphis&#8217; culture and spirit, and called it an open invitation for residents across Shelby County to visit often and engage with the arts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the best art museums are free because citizens can use it whenever they want with no restrictions,&#8221; said Zoe Kahr, Executive Director at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the museum is designed to expand access to art and community space. It has more than 600 percent more free public areas, including a rooftop sculpture garden and a central community courtyard named Hyde Square.<\/p>\n<p>The museum is scheduled to open on December 6.<\/p>\n<p>Download the FOX13 Memphis app to receive alerts from<br \/>\nbreaking news in your neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<br \/>\nTO DOWNLOAD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trending stories:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. &#8211; The Memphis Art Museum, alongside Mayor Paul Young, announced it will open its 123,000 square&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,306401,229,88,306400,306398,13840,306397,306396,42696,306399],"class_list":["post-710461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-brooks-museum","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-free-admission","tag-mam","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-art-musuem","tag-memphis-tennessee","tag-shelby-county","tag-shelby-county-tennessee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}