Museums & Learning in Nashville
Science, history, and hands-on learning around Nashville.
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More filtersLegends & Lore Ghost Walk in Historic Franklin
A history-first walking tour of downtown Franklin's Civil War-era buildings with just enough ghost story for tweens. Roughly 90 minutes on paved si...
Holiday Train Show at Cheekwood
Model trains wind through miniature Nashville landmarks built from bark, twigs and seed pods. It runs during daytime garden hours, separate from th...
Adventure Science Center
Three floors of hands-on science with the Adventure Tower climbing structure, a body-systems gallery and daily live science demonstrations. The Sud...
Andrew Jackson's Hermitage
The seventh president's plantation home, told today with serious attention to the enslaved people who lived and worked here. Wagon tours, farm anim...
Belle Meade Historic Site & Winery
A 19th-century thoroughbred farm with guided mansion tours, original outbuildings and a working carriage house. Kids like the stables and the spraw...
Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park
An open-air history lesson at the foot of the Capitol: a granite state map, a 200-foot timeline wall and 31 fountains kids can run through. The adj...
Cheekwood Estate & Gardens
Fifty-five acres of gardens wrapped around a 1930s mansion, with a Wishing Tree, treehouses and a sculpture trail built for wandering. The Turner S...
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Nashville's signature museum tells the story of country music with instruments, stage costumes and listening stations kids can work themselves. Wee...
Discovery Center at Murfree Spring
A children's museum built for the under-10 crowd, with a pretend grocery, water table and climbing structures. Out back, a boardwalk crosses a 20-a...
Fort Negley Park & Visitor Center
The largest inland Civil War fortification in the country, with an elevated boardwalk loop and skyline views. Free interpretive center explains the...
Frist Art Museum
Kids 18 and under are always free, and the upstairs Martin ArtQuest Gallery has thirty hands-on art-making stations. Rotating exhibitions land ever...
Lane Motor Museum
A warehouse full of the strangest cars in the world: amphibious vehicles, micro cars and one-of-a-kind prototypes. Kids can sit in a few designated...
Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum
Instruments and studio gear from the session players behind the records, plus the interactive Grammy Museum Gallery. Kids can mix a track and play...
Nashville Zoo at Grassmere
One of the country's fastest-growing zoos, with an enormous Jungle Gym playground, a walk-through kangaroo habitat and the Historic Grassmere Farm....
Tennessee State Museum
Free state history museum with a Children's Gallery, mammoth skeleton and hands-on discovery carts. Exhibits run from prehistoric Tennessee through...
The Parthenon at Centennial Park
A full-scale replica of the Athenian Parthenon holding a 42-foot statue of Athena that stops kids in their tracks. The surrounding park has a lake,...
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