Museum
Adventure Science Center
Civil War stone fortification on a wooded hilltop, now sharing its grounds with a hands-on science museum.
Location
About this audio guide
Adventure Science Center in Nashville sits on Saint Cloud Hill, the site of Fort Negley, a Civil War fort built by thousands of conscripted free and enslaved Black Nashvillians in eighteen sixty-two. The guide follows what became of those laborers and the fort's uneasy afterlife through Reconstruction, the Klan, and a nineteen thirty-seven rebuild. It asks what the museum's cheerful rockets and body exhibits now sit above. Stand at the hillside edge before heading in and look toward the old fort walls.
This audio guide was created using AI.