Frist Art Museum

About this audio guide

This guide to the Frist Art Museum in Nashville starts with a contradiction: the building was built to sort mail, not to hang paintings. Constructed in nineteen thirty-three as a Depression-era federal post office, it drew a construction workforce more than a thousand strong and, decades later, a Nashville doctor who thought the marble hall itself was worth saving. You will hear what went into its walls and doors, and what it took to turn a working post office into a museum.