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Music museums in Nashville, Tennessee (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Museums in Nashville, Tennessee" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Cheekwood is a 55-acre (22 ha) historic estate on the western edge of Nashville, Tennessee that houses the Cheekwood Estate & Gardens.Formerly the residence of Nashville's Cheek family, the 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m 2) Georgian-style mansion was opened as a botanical garden and art museum in 1960.
Museum of Tobacco Art and History, Nashville, closed in 1998 [58] Music Valley Wax Museum, Nashville [59] Obion County Museum, Union City, closed in 2012, collections moved to Discovery Park of Americar [60] Smoky Mountain Car Museum, Pigeon Forge [61] Soda Museum, Springfield, also known as the Museum of Beverage Containers and Advertising [62]
The Tennessee State Museum is a large museum in Nashville depicting the history of the U.S. state of Tennessee. The current facility opened on October 4, 2018, at the corner of Rosa Parks Boulevard and Jefferson Street at the foot of Capitol Hill by the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park .
Today, the Parthenon, which functions as an art museum, stands as the centerpiece of Centennial Park, a large public park just west of downtown Nashville. Alan LeQuire 's 1990 re-creation of the Athena Parthenos statue in the naos (the east room of the main hall) is the focus of the Parthenon just as it was in ancient Greece .
The museum is #5 on U.S. News & World Report's list of "Best Things to Do in Nashville" and is rated a kid-friendly site by Nashville Parent magazine. [19] [2] Additionally, the museum was on TripAdvisor's list of Top 25 Trending U.S. Attractions for Summer 2017 and also its list of Top 10 Trending U.S. Attractions for Fall 2017. [18] [16]
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is the world's largest repository of country music artifacts. Early in the 1960s, as the Country Music Association's (CMA) campaign to publicize country music was accelerating, CMA leaders determined that a new organization was needed to operate a country music museum and related activities beyond CMA's scope as simply a trade organization.
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