Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Music heritage museum in Nashville, United States.
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is a three-story building on 5th Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee, holding more than two million artifacts from the history of country music. The exhibition floors display guitars, stage costumes, handwritten lyrics, and recording equipment from different decades.
The Country Music Association founded the museum in 1961 in a smaller building and opened the current location in the heart of Nashville in 2001. The new structure was designed to house the growing collection and serve as a center for the study of American vernacular music.
The museum presents rotating exhibitions, educational programs, and a research center that chronicles the development of American vernacular music through artifacts and recordings.
The museum stands in downtown Nashville's arts and entertainment district, with the entrance on 5th Avenue South beneath the curved glass wall. Hatch Show Print, the letterpress shop, is inside the building, while Historic RCA Studio B on Music Row is visited by shuttle from the museum. The 776-seat CMA Theater and the Taylor Swift Education Center host separate programs.
The Hall of Fame Rotunda holds Thomas Hart Benton's mural The Sources of Country Music, his final work; he died in his studio while completing it. The museum also cares for Historic RCA Studio B on Music Row, Nashville's oldest surviving recording studio, where Elvis Presley, Dolly Parton and Waylon Jennings recorded.
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