Fall 2020 - 1736 Magazine

An artist rendering shows the front and side views of the James Brown wing that would be added on to the Augusta Museum of History.
The project was the subject of a $7 million SPLOST request. [SPECIAL/KRUHU]
“He was huge internationally. He was beloved,”
Glaser said. “We are the town Mr. Brown loved, and
we should have this. We should have had it a long
time ago when he was alive, in my opinion.”
The proposed wing would extend from the building’s
southeast side toward Broad Street, incorporating
the use of existing vacant storefronts as the
front entrance. The addition also would house the
permanent home of the James Brown Academy of
Musik Pupils (or JAMP) organization.
The proposed military and Jewish museums
would sit across the street from each other in the
500 block of Telfair Street, a block that also includes
the old Medical College of Georgia building and the
Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art.
Augusta Commissioner John Clarke, an advocate
for the museum projects, has said the cluster has the
potential to be a visitor-friendly museum district
when coupled with existing nearby attractions,
including the Augusta Museum of History on Reynolds
Street and the Boyhood Home of Woodrow
Wilson on Seventh Street.
“I think it would be an excellent idea to link all of
these together and have a ‘museum row,’” he said.
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