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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.
Website, country music star Loretta Lynn's park, includes the biographical Coal Miner's Daughter Museum, the Plantation Home tour, Frontier Homestead with 19th-century furnished cabins and equipment, Native American Artifacts Museum, Loretta's Fan & Doll Museum Louisville & Nashville Railroad Station/Museum: Etowah: McMinn: East: Railroad
The Hermitage is a National Historic Landmark and museum located in Davidson County, Tennessee, United States, 10 miles (16 km) east of downtown Nashville in the neighborhood of Hermitage. The 1,000-acre (400 ha)+ site was owned by President Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, from 1804 until his death there in 1845.
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 .
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.
When Bonnie Seymour took a job as assistant curator of Nashville's Parthenon museum, one of the first things she did was to look through the collections. Among paintings by American artists and ...
[4] Construction began on the museum center on May 28, 1998, and the museum opened to the public on September 11, 1999. [3] The museum center was chosen as the 2011 recipient of the MainStreet Cleveland award. [5] The new mission statement of "telling the story of the Ocoee Region" was adopted on June 18, 2013. [6]
In the 1960s, the park was the site of Sunday afternoon concerts; Pat Boone was among the early performers in this series. [15] In 1975, Robert Altman shot the climactic scene of his film Nashville in the park. In 1990, a statue of Pallas Athena, designed by Nashville sculptor Alan LeQuire, was added to the art gallery inside the Parthenon. It ...