The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is one of the world’s largest museums dedicated to preserving country music artifacts and the interpretation of American popular country music.
The Country Music Association and the state of Tennessee chartered the Country Music Foundation in 1964 to collect, preserve, and publicize information and artifacts relating to the history of country music.
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum opened in 1967, and the collection began to expand with recordings, books, periodicals, sheet music, songbooks, photographs, business documents, and other materials.
Today, the museum’s archival and library of collections includes over 2.5 million artifacts. The museum has amassed one of the world’s most extensive musical collections.
In 2001 the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum moved to a new facility to store and display the museum’s growing collection of costumes, films, historic cars, musical instruments, and other artifacts.
An education department, an oral history program, a publications department were launched plus the Journal of Country Music.
Inside Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Exhibits
The Country Music Hall of Fame
Membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame is the highest recognition for performers, songwriters, broadcasters, musicians, and executives for their contributions to the development of country music.
New Hall of Fame members receive special recognition in ceremonies at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
Each Hall of Fame member is honored in a seventy-foot-high rotunda at the museum.
Highlights of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
- Exhibits on the History and Sounds of Country Music
- Exhibits on the origins, traditions, stories, and voices of Country Music
- Artifacts, photographs, and text panels recorded sound, video, and interactive touchscreens
- Historic RCA Studio B – Nashville’s oldest surviving recording studio
- 200,000 sound recordings and 500,000 photographs
- Over 30,000 moving images on film, video, and digital formats
- A Historic Musical Instruments collection
- The Clothing Collection
- Iconic Vehicles – Elvis Presley’s 1960 “Solid Gold” Cadillac limousine
Show Posters – Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
- Museum: Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
- City: Nashville
- State: Tennessee
- Country: United States
- Established: 1961
- Location: 222 5th Ave S, Nashville, Tennessee
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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum – 360 Virtual Tour
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum – 360 Virtual Tour
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum Tour in Nashville, Tennessee
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