Museum · Bicentennial Capitol Mall
Tennessee State Museum
1000 Rosa L. Parks Boulevard, Nashville 37208
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The state's history museum sits beside the Bicentennial Capitol Mall, in a building that opened in 2018. Free galleries trace Tennessee from its geology and first peoples through statehood, the Civil War and the twentieth century, with rotating shows on music, craft and politics.
Permanent exhibitions
- Tennessee Time Tunnel
- Natural History of Tennessee
- First Peoples
- Forging a Nation: frontier and early statehood
- The Civil War and Reconstruction
- Change and Challenge: 1870s to 1945
- Tennessee Transforms: 1945 to today
