Get ready for a highly immersive experience! For an additional $5 dollars, guests can receive an RFID bracelet to register with your email address. As you move through the museum, hold your RFID bracelet over each interactive station's sensors to save playlists, videos, and more. Download your media when you get home and enjoy your museum visit all over again! Your experience begins in the Roots Theater with a brief film about the history of Black music in America. From there, enter the Rivers of Rhythm corridor and dive into music genres on our large touch screens. Keep an eye out for one of the Take Over Moments! Move into the galleries: Wade in the Water, Crossroads, A Love Supreme, One Nation Under a Groove, and The Message. Explore at your own pace and let the music guide you! There is no time limit for museum visits, but we recommend planning at least 90 minutes to allow yourself enough time to enjoy the full NMAAM experience.
The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is the home for this popular American art form, safeguarding over 2.5 million artifacts, and featuring two expansive floors of gallery space, highlighting permanent and limited-engagement exhibitions. Touring the two floors of the Museum’s gallery spaces, guests follow the evolution of country music, within the context of American history. Visitors experience that evolution through a diverse mix of displayed artifacts, video footage, and carefully selected sound recordings. Biographical panels and audio tours tell the stories of those who have shaped the music, from several important artists. Many artifacts from today’s groundbreaking artists are on display in the contemporary gallery space. Visitors of all ages can discover connections between country music’s past and artists of today, and have the chance to engage with interactive stations.
You got kids, they got activities! If you are looking for a good place for kids to explore and learn, look no further than Adventure Science Center, a science and technology center. The team at ASC are dedicated to delivering innovative, dynamic learning experiences that open minds to the wonders of science and technology and foster a better understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Perched atop a hill with spectacular views of the city, our 44,000-square-foot space features more than 175 hands-on exhibits focused on biology, astronomy, physics, earth science, energy, weather, sound, and space and is home to state-of-the-art Sudekum Planetarium.
CHILL SPOT! Make your way up to the first indoor-outdoor rooftop lounge in Nashville, a relaxed spot with a menu full of casual favorites, played-up cocktails, and wine and beer options served in a backyard get-together setting. Just head upstairs and enjoy an open-air game night without the cooking or the setup. Seating is always on a first-come, first-served basis.
City Winery is proud to offer year-round live music in our performance Venue, and dining in the Barrel Room restaurant, including Skyline Patio and Wine Garden! With full dinner & brunch service and extraordinary views of the downtown skyline, this is the perfect place to bask in the sun (or under the shady one-of-a-kind barrel umbrellas) and enjoy those beautiful Tennessee blue skies. Just a few blocks from Lower Broadway, City Winery Nashville offers the ultimate dining experience for locals looking to get outdoors and tourists searching for the best photo op while brunching in style. The patio is open for brunch & dinner service, and all live performances offer show-style drinks & dining. Cheers!
The games are big, the drinks are bold, and the fun is pure Nashville. No VR, no arcade games—just the kind of fun that keeps you going ‘til dawn. With over 20 immersive games and a bar that knows how to keep the good times flowing, you’ll feel like a kid again—except this time, you can stay out as long as you want. Grab your friends, grab a drink, and let’s play. No skills necessary—just a little Southern spirit and a whole lot of energy to play like no one’s watching!
The Nashville Farmers' Market, founded in the early 1800s, is located in the urban core of downtown Nashville adjacent to the Tennessee State Museum and Bicentennial Mall State Park. The year-round Market provides retail space to farmers, artisans and small businesses. Our facility includes two covered open-air sheds, a 27,000 square-foot garden center, a culinary incubation center and international food hall that includes more than 25 restaurants and shops. The Nashville Farmers' Market also operates a neighborhood market located on the Vanderbilt Medical Center Campus, which operates every Thursday in June through October. There is an event on the first weekend of every month dedicated to celebrating Black vendors in Nashville!