Museum
Tennessee State Museum
Free museum tracing centuries of state history through a hands-on time tunnel and changing exhibits.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville follows Lois Riggins-Ezzell, the director who ran the museum for thirty-five years starting in nineteen eighty-one, when its entire collection lived in a basement borrowed from a theater. You will hear about the artifacts she kept safe there, including relics tied to Davy Crockett and Andrew Jackson, and the long campaign that finally won the museum a building of its own. Stand in the grand hall and listen for what that fight actually cost her.
This audio guide was created using AI.