Culture in Nashville
Things to do, by neighborhood
Places
22 placesEvery place we cover, A to Z. Pick a stop for somewhere to be before or after.
Andrew Jackson's plantation home, about two miles northeast on Rachel's Lane. Admission covers the museum and film, the grounds, the garden and the family cemetery, and an audio tour of more than 20 historic buildings. Last tickets sell at 4 PM.
Daily 8:30am to 5:30pm
An antebellum house museum on the Belmont University campus, shown by guided tour. Tours run about an hour and cost $18 for adults. Last one goes out at 3:30.
Mon to Sat 10am to 3:30pm, Sun 11am to 3:30pm
A farmhouse built in 1830 that stood in the middle of the Battle of Franklin on November 30, 1864. The standard guided tour runs an hour and costs $22, with longer tours covering the battlefield and the people enslaved on the property. The last tour starts at 4pm.
Mon to Sat 9am to 5pm, Sun 10am to 5pm
A free Dukes of Hazzard museum and gift shop run by Ben Jones, who played Cooter on the show. Inside are the tow truck, Daisy's Jeep, Rosco's patrol car and a 1969 Dodge Charger done up as the General Lee, plus costumes and props from the series. Twenty minutes covers it.
Daily 9am to 6pm
A commercial gallery on Hagan Street showing contemporary painting, sculpture, and photography, with exhibitions that change roughly every six weeks. Admission is free and you can walk the whole space in fifteen minutes. Closed Sunday and Monday.
Tue to Fri 10am to 5:30pm, Sat 11am to 4pm
Built 1933 to 1934 as Nashville's main post office: cast aluminum doors and colored marble floors, Art Deco stonework throughout. Opened as an art museum in 2001. The building is worth the visit even without the exhibition. Closes at 5:30pm.
Thu to Mon, until 5:30 PM. Closed Tue and Wed
An art gallery in Clouston Hall, a house built in 1821 a block off Main Street. It represents more than 25 local and regional artists and also carries sculpture, art glass, jewelry and antiques. Free to walk through.
Daytime, closed Monday
Founded in 1879 by the Hatch brothers. Still running letterpress presses, some more than a century old, inside the Country Music Hall of Fame complex.
Open until 5 PM
The 1957 studio on Roy Acuff Place where Elvis Presley, Dolly Parton, Waylon Jennings and Chet Atkins cut records. Tours run about 35 minutes. Tickets are sold only with Country Music Hall of Fame admission and the shuttle leaves from the museum downtown, so book ahead.
10:30am to 3:30pm daily
Opened in 2013 at 119 3rd Avenue South, built around Bill Miller's private collection of Cash artifacts. Open 9 AM to 7 PM daily, later than most museums downtown.
Open 9 AM to 7 PM daily
A small gallery inside Belmont's Lila D. Bunch Library on Belmont Blvd, with rotating shows of student, faculty and visiting work. Open seven days during the semester. Fifteen minutes is enough.
Mon to Fri 9am to 4:30pm, Sat 10am to 4:30pm, Sun 1pm to 5pm
On the ground floor of the Municipal Auditorium at 401 Gay Street. It honors the session players and backing bands behind the records rather than the names on the label.
Mon to Sat, 10 AM to 5 PM
The main library at 615 Church Street reopened in March 2026 after a nine-month closure caused by a fire in the garage next door. Free to walk in. A permanent civil rights exhibit overlooks the corner of Church and 7th, where Nashville's 1960 lunch counter sit-ins were organized.
Mon to Fri 9 AM to 6 PM, Sat to 5 PM, Sun 2 to 5 PM
Ann Patchett opened this in 2011 because independent bookstores kept closing and she could not stand it. National authors make it a tour stop, with hundreds of events a year. The shop dogs are a feature.
Mon through Sat 10am to 6pm, Sun noon to 6pm
Indoor mini golf on 12th Ave N with tracked scoring, plus a full bar and food. Courses run about an hour for a group. After nine on Friday and Saturday it is twenty-one and up.
Sun 11am to 10pm, Mon to Thu 11am to 11pm, Fri and Sat 11am to 1am
Sixteen screens off Hillsboro Pike behind the mall, with reserved reclining seats. First showings start around eleven in the morning. It runs the wide releases rather than repertory.
11am to 11:30pm daily
Finished in 1859 to a design by William Strickland, who died during construction and is entombed in the north wall. Free guided tours run hourly on weekdays from the first-floor information desk. James K. Polk is buried on the grounds.
Mon to Fri, 9 AM to 4 PM
A full-scale replica of the Greek Parthenon standing in Centennial Park, with an art museum inside. Adult admission is $15. Last entry is well before closing, so go early in the afternoon.
9am to 7pm Mon to Thu, 9am to 4:30pm Fri and Sat, 12:30pm to 4:30pm Sun
Vanderbilt's art collection, housed in Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus at 21st and Edgehill. It reopened in September 2026 after a rebuild. Closed Mondays.
Tue to Fri 11am to 4pm, Sat and Sun noon to 5pm