Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum - Top Nashville Experience and Tours
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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum - Top Nashville Experience and Tours
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Country Music Hall of Fame
and Museum
The House That Holds The Music
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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An Evening with Jimmy Webb
24
Apr
7:30
Songwriter Session: Mark Irwin
25
Apr
12-12:45 pm
Musician Spotlight: Deanie Richardson
26
Apr
1-1:45 pm
Songwriter Session: Wil Nance
2
May
12-12:45 pm
Announcements
Clint Black: The Hard Way on Purpose
Now Open
LEARN MORE
Earth Day 2026
WATCH
Country Music Hall of Fame Class of 2026
Learn More
Current Exhibitions
View All
Dolly Parton: Journey of a Seeker
Even among living legends, Dolly Parton’s star shines with unusual brilliance. Her fame casts a wider, brighter light today than at any time in her career of sixty-plus years. The Country Music Hall of Fame member has enjoyed seemingly effortless success as a singer, songwriter, movie and television actor, author, businesswoman, and philanthropist ever since she first hit the record charts in 1967. In truth, however, her achievements required determination to get past those who tried to limit the scale of her dreams.
Learn More
Clint Black: The Hard Way on Purpose
Clint Black: The Hard Way on Purpose
is now open. The exhibit explores the Texan’s journey, from ironworker to country music star, as he charts his course as an artist with both blockbuster appeal and singular authenticity.
LEARN MORE
Country’s Grandest Stage: The Opry at 100
Country’s Grandest Stage: The Opry at 100
cel
eb
rates notable performers and moments in the history of the longest-running radio show in the world, as well as one of the most important radio programs in broadcasting history.
LEARN MORE
American Currents: State of the Music
This annual exhibit offers a broad look at country music and its place in American culture over the past year, exploring musical developments, artist achievements, and notable events. The latest installment, which will be open through January 2026 in the ACM Gallery, features music and moments from cozy clubs to cavernous arenas.
LEARN MORE
Lainey Wilson: Tough as Nails
Lainey Wilson: Tough as Nails
is open now. The exhibit explores the Louisiana native’s ascent to stardom and her identity as both a pragmatic farmer’s daughter and the free-spirited originator of “bell bottom country.”
LEARN MORE
Muscle Shoals: Low Rhythm Rising
The Museum’s latest exhibition,
Muscle Shoals: Low Rhythm Rising
, explores how an Alabama community developed a distinctive sound, became a global recording epicenter in the 1960s and 1970s, and continues to inspire music today. The exhibit tells the story of Black and white musicians who found a way to work together at a time when segregation prevailed. Producer Rick Hall and his FAME Recording Studio and the session aces at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio built a home-made approach to cutting music that mattered. As a result, hitmakers from R&B, rock, pop, and country music flocked to this quiet backwater to record, and a new rhythm arose. Exhibit supported by OneLouder.
LEARN MORE
American Currents: State of the Music
This annual exhibit offers a broad look at country music and its place in American culture over the past year, exploring musical developments, artist achievements, and notable events. The latest installment, which will be open through January 2026, features music and moments from cozy clubs to arena rafters.
View Exhibition
Writers, Pickers and Stars: The Photography of Ed Rode
The exhibit features photographs from Rode’s 2024 book, “Songwriter Musician: Behind the Curtain with Nashville’s Iconic Storytellers and Players.” The exhibit is free and will be open to the public through July 2026 in the museum’s first-floor gallery.
The book is the culmination of decades of stories captured on film: playing snooker with John Prine, celebrating Mardi Gras in New Orleans with Brad Paisley, traversing Tennessee with Ketch Secor and more. The idea for the book was inspired by a 1991 photo Rode took of Country Music Hall of Fame member Chet Atkins, whom Rode met shortly after moving to Nashville in 1990.
view exhibition
Help Support Our Mission
Every dollar donated to the Museum, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, supports its educational mission: to
collect
,
preserve
, and
interpret
the evolving history and traditions of country music.
Make a Donation
Become a Museum Member
Hall of Fame Members
View All
Patsy Cline
One of the best-selling female country singers of the twentieth century, Patsy Cline achieved iconic status following her tragic death at age thirty in 1963. Cline was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1973, and is frequently invoked as a standard for female vocalists, having inspired scores of singers including k. d. lang, Loretta Lynn, Linda Ronstadt, Trisha Yearwood, and Wynonna Judd.
Learn More
DeFord Bailey
DeFord Bailey was an influential harmonica player in both country music and blues, one of the Grand Ole Opry’s most popular early performers, and country’s first African-American star.
Learn More
Brooks & Dunn
Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn—performing together as Brooks & Dunn—charged onto the country music scene in 1991. They went on to become the best-selling country duo of all time, with forty-one Top Ten hits (including twenty #1s) and two decades of packing concert arenas. They collected a mountain of music-industry honors, including two Grammys, nineteen CMA awards, and twenty-five ACM awards.
Learn More
Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire ranks as the most successful female country performer of her generation, and she has been cited as a role model by nearly every successful woman to follow in her wake. She has achieved more than fifty Top Ten singles and more #1 country albums than any other female artist. McEntire has won CMA Female Vocalist of the Year four times and was CMA Entertainer of the Year in 1986. She also has won three Grammy Awards, and in 2018 received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors for her lifetime of contributions to American culture.
Learn More
Hank Williams
Hank Williams’s legend has long overtaken the rather frail and painfully introverted man who spawned it. Almost singlehandedly, Williams set the agenda for contemporary country songcraft, but his appeal rests as much in the myth that even now surrounds his short life.
Learn More
Expand Your
Experience
The Museum experience is home to the Hall of Fame Rotunda, offers world class exhibitions, and so much more—from live music and family activities, to tours of Historic RCA Studio B and the iconic Hatch Show Print, a working letterpress print shop since 1879.
Studio B
Hatch Show Print
CMA Theater
Gifts for Everyone at The Museum Store
The Museum Store has something for everyone on your list—for kids from one to ninety-two. Browse records, apparel, books, and instruments for the music lovers in your life, or shop cookbooks, keepsakes, housewares, unique local gifts and stocking stuffers for everyone else.
SHOP THE CATALOG
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Country Music Hall of Fame
and Museum
The House That Holds The Music
MUSEUM TICKETS
Plan Your Visit
UPCOMING EVENTS
View All
An Evening with Jimmy Webb
24
Apr
7:30
Songwriter Session: Mark Irwin
25
Apr
12-12:45 pm
Musician Spotlight: Deanie Richardson
26
Apr
1-1:45 pm
Songwriter Session: Wil Nance
2
May
12-12:45 pm
Announcements
Clint Black: The Hard Way on Purpose
Now Open
LEARN MORE
Earth Day 2026
WATCH
Country Music Hall of Fame Class of 2026
Learn More
Current Exhibitions
View All
Dolly Parton: Journey of a Seeker
Even among living legends, Dolly Parton’s star shines with unusual brilliance. Her fame casts a wider, brighter light today than at any time in her career of sixty-plus years. The Country Music Hall of Fame member has enjoyed seemingly effortless success as a singer, songwriter, movie and television actor, author, businesswoman, and philanthropist ever since she first hit the record charts in 1967. In truth, however, her achievements required determination to get past those who tried to limit the scale of her dreams.
Learn More
Clint Black: The Hard Way on Purpose
Clint Black: The Hard Way on Purpose
is now open. The exhibit explores the Texan’s journey, from ironworker to country music star, as he charts his course as an artist with both blockbuster appeal and singular authenticity.
LEARN MORE
Country’s Grandest Stage: The Opry at 100
Country’s Grandest Stage: The Opry at 100
cel
eb
rates notable performers and moments in the history of the longest-running radio show in the world, as well as one of the most important radio programs in broadcasting history.
LEARN MORE
American Currents: State of the Music
This annual exhibit offers a broad look at country music and its place in American culture over the past year, exploring musical developments, artist achievements, and notable events. The latest installment, which will be open through January 2026 in the ACM Gallery, features music and moments from cozy clubs to cavernous arenas.
LEARN MORE
Lainey Wilson: Tough as Nails
Lainey Wilson: Tough as Nails
is open now. The exhibit explores the Louisiana native’s ascent to stardom and her identity as both a pragmatic farmer’s daughter and the free-spirited originator of “bell bottom country.”
LEARN MORE
Muscle Shoals: Low Rhythm Rising
The Museum’s latest exhibition,
Muscle Shoals: Low Rhythm Rising
, explores how an Alabama community developed a distinctive sound, became a global recording epicenter in the 1960s and 1970s, and continues to inspire music today. The exhibit tells the story of Black and white musicians who found a way to work together at a time when segregation prevailed. Producer Rick Hall and his FAME Recording Studio and the session aces at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio built a home-made approach to cutting music that mattered. As a result, hitmakers from R&B, rock, pop, and country music flocked to this quiet backwater to record, and a new rhythm arose. Exhibit supported by OneLouder.
LEARN MORE
American Currents: State of the Music
This annual exhibit offers a broad look at country music and its place in American culture over the past year, exploring musical developments, artist achievements, and notable events. The latest installment, which will be open through January 2026, features music and moments from cozy clubs to arena rafters.
View Exhibition
Writers, Pickers and Stars: The Photography of Ed Rode
The exhibit features photographs from Rode’s 2024 book, “Songwriter Musician: Behind the Curtain with Nashville’s Iconic Storytellers and Players.” The exhibit is free and will be open to the public through July 2026 in the museum’s first-floor gallery.
The book is the culmination of decades of stories captured on film: playing snooker with John Prine, celebrating Mardi Gras in New Orleans with Brad Paisley, traversing Tennessee with Ketch Secor and more. The idea for the book was inspired by a 1991 photo Rode took of Country Music Hall of Fame member Chet Atkins, whom Rode met shortly after moving to Nashville in 1990.
view exhibition
Help Support Our Mission
Every dollar donated to the Museum, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, supports its educational mission: to
collect
,
preserve
, and
interpret
the evolving history and traditions of country music.
Make a Donation
Become a Museum Member
Hall of Fame Members
View All
Patsy Cline
One of the best-selling female country singers of the twentieth century, Patsy Cline achieved iconic status following her tragic death at age thirty in 1963. Cline was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1973, and is frequently invoked as a standard for female vocalists, having inspired scores of singers including k. d. lang, Loretta Lynn, Linda Ronstadt, Trisha Yearwood, and Wynonna Judd.
Learn More
DeFord Bailey
DeFord Bailey was an influential harmonica player in both country music and blues, one of the Grand Ole Opry’s most popular early performers, and country’s first African-American star.
Learn More
Brooks & Dunn
Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn—performing together as Brooks & Dunn—charged onto the country music scene in 1991. They went on to become the best-selling country duo of all time, with forty-one Top Ten hits (including twenty #1s) and two decades of packing concert arenas. They collected a mountain of music-industry honors, including two Grammys, nineteen CMA awards, and twenty-five ACM awards.
Learn More
Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire ranks as the most successful female country performer of her generation, and she has been cited as a role model by nearly every successful woman to follow in her wake. She has achieved more than fifty Top Ten singles and more #1 country albums than any other female artist. McEntire has won CMA Female Vocalist of the Year four times and was CMA Entertainer of the Year in 1986. She also has won three Grammy Awards, and in 2018 received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors for her lifetime of contributions to American culture.
Learn More
Hank Williams
Hank Williams’s legend has long overtaken the rather frail and painfully introverted man who spawned it. Almost singlehandedly, Williams set the agenda for contemporary country songcraft, but his appeal rests as much in the myth that even now surrounds his short life.
Learn More
Expand Your
Experience
The Museum experience is home to the Hall of Fame Rotunda, offers world class exhibitions, and so much more—from live music and family activities, to tours of Historic RCA Studio B and the iconic Hatch Show Print, a working letterpress print shop since 1879.
Studio B
Hatch Show Print
CMA Theater
Gifts for Everyone at The Museum Store
The Museum Store has something for everyone on your list—for kids from one to ninety-two. Browse records, apparel, books, and instruments for the music lovers in your life, or shop cookbooks, keepsakes, housewares, unique local gifts and stocking stuffers for everyone else.
SHOP THE CATALOG
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