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An Apollonaut travel guide
A museum off Broadway.
An introduction to downtown Nashville, where the Johnny Cash Museum stands on 3rd Avenue South, between Broadway and Demonbreun Street.
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Read the city around you
The museum is on 3rd Avenue South in the area known as SoBro, just south of Broadway in downtown Nashville.
A city guide can give context without turning a neighbourhood into a backdrop. Notice how the city’s music history sits beside its new buildings, a few steps from the venues of Broadway.
Wood, steel and strings
Many of the museum’s objects are working tools: guitars, amplifiers and a family piano, each shaped by the hands that played them.
Begin with a detail and ask how it was made, used and repaired. A photograph alone cannot tell you who built an instrument or the conditions in which they worked.
A Nashville chapter
The museum shows how Nashville remembers the artists who worked here. Johnny Cash died in Nashville in 2003, and the stone wall from his Hendersonville lake house brings a piece of his home into the city.
Look at the meeting of the two: a personal collection and one of downtown’s busiest streets.
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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