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An Apollonaut travel guide
A museum in Music City.
An introduction to downtown Nashville, where the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum stands a short walk from Broadway.
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Read the city around you
The museum stands at Rep. John Lewis Way South and Demonbreun Street, beside Walk of Fame Park and a short walk south of Broadway.
A city guide can give context without turning a neighbourhood into a backdrop. Notice how the museum’s curving front faces the park, and how its tower answers the towers of the city around it.
Stone, glass and musical forms
Tuck-Hinton Architects designed the building with musical references: front windows like piano keys, a sweeping arch whose point recalls a 1959 Cadillac’s tailfin, and a Rotunda roof of four disc-shaped tiers.
Begin with a detail and ask how it was made and maintained. A photograph alone cannot tell you who set the stone or fixed the glass, or the conditions in which they worked.
A Nashville chapter
The museum shows how Nashville tells its own story: a hall of fame begun on Music Row in the 1960s, then given a landmark building downtown in 2001.
Look at the meeting of the two: a working museum and archive, and one of the city’s most visited places.
Make room for context
Pair this city reading with the museum’s history and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places, commissions their restoration or represents their makers.
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Sources & further reading
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