Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum – Virtual Tour

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

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum – Map

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

New York Museums – Virtual Tours

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Washington, D.C. Museums – Virtual Tours

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

~~~

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
– Dolly Parton

~~~

Photo Credit: Prayitno / CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0); Prayitno / CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0); Lou Stejskal / CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)