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Though the Ogden houses the largest collection of Southern art anywhere in the world, the museum nevertheless maintains an intimate and welcoming atmosphere across its five floors, with exhibits that ground museum-goers firmly in time and place. During your visit, you’ll marvel at voodoo-inspired sculptures, paintings that blend the phantasmagoric landscapes of Hieronymous Bosch with the pathos of the African-American struggle, striking photography that ranges from straightforward realism to spectral surrealism, modern and contemporary abstract experimentation, and much more. Be sure to check out Ogden After Hours as well—the museum’s weekly happy hour where you can enjoy live music and a cash bar as you mingle with other art lovers and listen-in on live interviews with some of the South’s most dynamic musicians. 

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