MAKE HISTORY COME ALIVE
Plan Your Event at the Tennessee State Museum
The Tennessee State
Museum, on the
corner of Rosa
L. Parks Blvd.
and Jefferson Street at Bicentennial
Capitol Mall State
Park, is home to 13,000 years
of Tennessee art and history.
Through six permanent exhibitions
titled Natural History,
First Peoples, Forging
a Nation (1760-1860), The
Civil War and Reconstruction
(1860-1870), Change
and Challenge (1870-1945)
and Tennessee Transforms
(1945-Present), the Museum
takes visitors on a journey
– through artifacts, films,
interactive displays, events
and educational programing
– from the state’s geological
beginnings to the present day.
Beyond exhibition spaces, the Museum’s
two-story Grand Hall, second¬
floor rotunda and wrap-around veranda
all offer stunning views of downtown
Nashville, providing the perfect
setting for weddings and other celebrations,
while the state-of-the-art Digital
Leaning Center offers ample and flexible
space for conferences, lectures, film
screenings and more. All events can be
enhanced with access to the museum’s
exhibitions.
In the last year since it has opened,
the Museum has hosted dozens of
conferences, corporate events, symposiums,
film screenings and parties, but
it’s been weddings where the space has
really shined. As each wedding has its
own unique theme tailored to its celebrants,
event designers have continually
transformed the flexible space
to make the experience special for
the attendees. Underneath the Grand
Hall’s 96 lights, on the three stars inlaid
into the spaces fall, designers have
had seated dinners at 10-top
tables with service from the
Museum’s ample catering
kitchen, to highboy cocktail
tables with servers making
the rounds. One recent farmto
table celebration used the
spaces in the Grand Hall
for cocktails, before seating
guests at long farm tables just
outside the space.
This is Nashville, of
course, where no wedding
would be complete without
music. The Grand Hall has
hosted everything from symphonic
quartets and bluegrass
acts, to choirs and solo
vocalists accompanied by
piano, to full bands. Views
of the Capitol provide a dramatic
backdrop for all the
performances.
The Museum is free and open to
the public Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays
and Saturdays from 10 a.m. – 5
p.m., Thursdays from 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
and Sundays from 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. For
more information on exhibitions and
events, please visit tnmuseum.org.
For more information about booking
your event at the Museum, please
visit tnmuseum.org/venue-rental or
write events@tnmuseum.org.
Photos courtesy of Tennessee State Museum and
Sarah Sidwell Photography
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