The Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, TN will be celebrating their Expansion Grand Opening on Tuesday, April 15th!
GRAND OPENING FESTIVITIES • TUESDAY, APRIL 15
Film Screening: Benton: The Making of The Sources of Country Music (1975)
Repeats Every 30 Minutes 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. • Ford Theater
Take a look back at the making of the exquisite mural that was commissioned for the Country Music Foundation over forty years ago and hangs today in the Hall of Fame Rotunda. Follow artist Thomas Hart Benton through the stages of creation.
Museum Expansion Celebration
1:15 p.m. • Event Hall
Family Program: Musical Petting Zoo
Drop in 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. • Taylor Swift Education Center
Bang a drum, strum an autoharp, and pick a banjo! Our Musical Petting Zoo offers budding musicians a chance to try new and familiar instruments. All ages.
Family Program: Embellished Instruments
Drop in 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. • Taylor Swift Education Center
Choose a wooden or paper cutout of a banjo, fiddle, guitar, dulcimer, or mandolin; decorate it with color, rhinestones, and glitter; then turn it into a magnet or artwork for your wall. Ages 5 – 18 and accompanying adults.
For more information and to learn all about the new exhibit spaces, click here.