Nashville has always been a city of storytellers, dreamers, creators, and makers. Known to many as Music City, visitors flock from all around the globe to enjoy live music 365 days a year from a music scene as diverse as the talented artists who make up our community. They also come to experience the city’s own rich culture, art, food, and history. See for yourself what makes Nashville a town full of wild animals and lovely people.
The Nashville Zoo at Grassmere is a zoological garden and historic plantation farmhouse located 6 miles southeast of Downtown Nashville. As of 2014, the zoo was middle Tennessee’s top attraction and contained 6,230 individual animals, encompassing 339 species. The zoo’s site is approximately 188 acres in size.
Experience Cheekwood, the 55-acre estate built by the Maxwell House Coffee fortune in Nashville, Tennessee, and one of the finest examples of an American Country Place Era Estate in the United States. The Botanical Garden is a spectacular showcase of color and horticultural diversity. With eleven specialty display gardens and stunning natural landscape, every season offers something new.
When you walk through the doors of historic Ryman Auditorium, one thing becomes clear right away: this isn’t just another nightly music venue, and it’s so much more than a daytime tourist stop. This place is hallowed ground. This is the exact spot where bluegrass was born, where Johnny Cash met June Carter.
Located in downtown Nashville, the National Museum of African American Music is scheduled to open on Labor Day in 2020. The museum will encompass a 56,000-square-foot facility and will highlight how African Americans have contributed to all genres of American music.
Paying homage to the building’s past life as the Gray & Dudley Hardware Company, the re-imagined restaurant and lounge space embraces and celebrates high and low, new and old. Adjacent museum galleries exhibiting contemporary art foster exploration over cocktails or following a meal filled with heartfelt hospitality.
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