Country Music Foundation
615-416-2001
222 Rep. John Lewis Way S
Nashville, TN 37203
Nashville, TN 37203
Programs
Budget
$1,219,048.00
Description
Public programs expand on the stories told through exhibitions and offer audiences the opportunity to interact with songwriters, musicians, and artists. Programs feature richly layered media presentations that draw from the Museum's collection, incorporating vintage sound recordings, photos, films, and videos to create exciting learning experiences for patrons, either in-person or online. They also allow visitors to engage directly with people who created and lived the country music story, while giving the veterans themselves a chance to speak about their roles in the music's history. The Museum chronicled the evolving history of country music through 89 programs in 2020, including weekly online Songwriter Sessions that reached nearly 80,000 people.
Category
Arts, Culture & Humanities - Museum Audience Services
Beneficiaries
General Public
Families
Program Areas Served
None
$1,219,048.00
Description
Public programs expand on the stories told through exhibitions and offer audiences the opportunity to interact with songwriters, musicians, and artists. Programs feature richly layered media presentations that draw from the Museum's collection, incorporating vintage sound recordings, photos, films, and videos to create exciting learning experiences for patrons, either in-person or online. They also allow visitors to engage directly with people who created and lived the country music story, while giving the veterans themselves a chance to speak about their roles in the music's history. The Museum chronicled the evolving history of country music through 89 programs in 2020, including weekly online Songwriter Sessions that reached nearly 80,000 people.
Category
Arts, Culture & Humanities - Museum Audience Services
Beneficiaries
General Public
Families
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$644,451.00
Description
The Museum delivers school programming through classroom visits to the Museum, artist "outreach" visits to schools, and virtual learning experiences. In total, these programs reach more than 100,000 students in a normal year, with Tennessee students comprising the vast majority of participants. School programs address Common Core, Tennessee, and national curriculum standards in social studies, music, science, language arts, and visual art. New online learning opportunities, both synchronous and asynchronous, are available to serve students and teachers in a variety of educational settings. In 2020, 17,368 students engaged in online and on-site programs. Free programming, admission, and travel support is available to Metro Nashville Public Schools. The Community Counts program extends free admission to Middle Tennessee K-12 students; provides a 25% discount for adults; and makes available a passport which provides two free adult admissions at all Nashville Public Library branches.
Beneficiaries
Adolescents
Children
Infants and Toddlers
Program Areas Served
None
$644,451.00
Description
The Museum delivers school programming through classroom visits to the Museum, artist "outreach" visits to schools, and virtual learning experiences. In total, these programs reach more than 100,000 students in a normal year, with Tennessee students comprising the vast majority of participants. School programs address Common Core, Tennessee, and national curriculum standards in social studies, music, science, language arts, and visual art. New online learning opportunities, both synchronous and asynchronous, are available to serve students and teachers in a variety of educational settings. In 2020, 17,368 students engaged in online and on-site programs. Free programming, admission, and travel support is available to Metro Nashville Public Schools. The Community Counts program extends free admission to Middle Tennessee K-12 students; provides a 25% discount for adults; and makes available a passport which provides two free adult admissions at all Nashville Public Library branches.
Beneficiaries
Adolescents
Children
Infants and Toddlers
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$1,174,471.00
Description
The Museum presents and interprets its collection through relevant, engaging exhibits. Galleries showcase rigorous scholarship by prominent co-curating scholars and incorporate previously-unseen materials and artifacts. The Museum's permanent exhibit, "Sing Me Back Home," traces country's history from its folk origins to its current popularity. Through artifacts, photographs, original recordings, archival video, films, touch-screen interactive media, and informational text panels, "Sing Me Back Home" immerses visitors in the history and sounds of country music, its meanings, and the lives and voices of many of its honored personalities. In addition to "Sing Me Back Home," the Museum curated and presented 12 original exhibitions last year, featuring members of the Country Music Hall of Fame and contemporary artists, as well as thematic exhibitions that showcase Tennessee and country music's impact on American art. The Museum presented two new online exhibits in April 2021.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Families
Program Areas Served
None
$1,174,471.00
Description
The Museum presents and interprets its collection through relevant, engaging exhibits. Galleries showcase rigorous scholarship by prominent co-curating scholars and incorporate previously-unseen materials and artifacts. The Museum's permanent exhibit, "Sing Me Back Home," traces country's history from its folk origins to its current popularity. Through artifacts, photographs, original recordings, archival video, films, touch-screen interactive media, and informational text panels, "Sing Me Back Home" immerses visitors in the history and sounds of country music, its meanings, and the lives and voices of many of its honored personalities. In addition to "Sing Me Back Home," the Museum curated and presented 12 original exhibitions last year, featuring members of the Country Music Hall of Fame and contemporary artists, as well as thematic exhibitions that showcase Tennessee and country music's impact on American art. The Museum presented two new online exhibits in April 2021.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Families
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$274,363.00
Description
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum operates two historic properties: Historic RCA Studio B, the city's oldest surviving recording studio, and Hatch Show Print, a letterpress printing firm that has designed marketing posters since 1879. Preservation of Historic RCA Studio B is made possible through a partnership between the Mike Curb Family Foundation and the Museum. In a normal year, more than 100,000 visitors tour Studio B. Hatch Show Print is one of the oldest continuously-operated letterpress print shops in the United States and remains an active business today. For years its most celebrated client was the Grand Ole Opry, and the shop's output captures the evolution of country music and intertwines with its history. With a motto of "preservation through production," Hatch Show Print serves a diverse, global client base as a working letterpress print shop. Hatch Show Print created 73,141 posters through 273 custom print jobs in 2020.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Families
Program Areas Served
None
$274,363.00
Description
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum operates two historic properties: Historic RCA Studio B, the city's oldest surviving recording studio, and Hatch Show Print, a letterpress printing firm that has designed marketing posters since 1879. Preservation of Historic RCA Studio B is made possible through a partnership between the Mike Curb Family Foundation and the Museum. In a normal year, more than 100,000 visitors tour Studio B. Hatch Show Print is one of the oldest continuously-operated letterpress print shops in the United States and remains an active business today. For years its most celebrated client was the Grand Ole Opry, and the shop's output captures the evolution of country music and intertwines with its history. With a motto of "preservation through production," Hatch Show Print serves a diverse, global client base as a working letterpress print shop. Hatch Show Print created 73,141 posters through 273 custom print jobs in 2020.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Families
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$1,608,460.00
Description
Over five decades, the Museum has amassed a unrivaled country music collection of sound and video recordings, photographs, print materials, books, documents, manuscripts, and three-dimensional artifacts. It is the finest and most complete of its kind in the world. The Museum celebrates and preserves a uniquely American art form, protecting and interpreting a chronicle of the American musical experience rooted in Southern culture from the late 1800s to today. This collection provides the foundation for the Museum's educational mission. It serves as the basis for exhibits and programs that reach over 1 million annual visitors; 7.2 annual virtual visitors to the Museum's website and social channels; and researchers who access files from the more than 155,000 items in the Digital Archive. The Museum is committed to digital asset management and ensuring the preservation of its collection of historical and culturally unique resources, which serve as a valuable resource for the public.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Program Areas Served
None
$1,608,460.00
Description
Over five decades, the Museum has amassed a unrivaled country music collection of sound and video recordings, photographs, print materials, books, documents, manuscripts, and three-dimensional artifacts. It is the finest and most complete of its kind in the world. The Museum celebrates and preserves a uniquely American art form, protecting and interpreting a chronicle of the American musical experience rooted in Southern culture from the late 1800s to today. This collection provides the foundation for the Museum's educational mission. It serves as the basis for exhibits and programs that reach over 1 million annual visitors; 7.2 annual virtual visitors to the Museum's website and social channels; and researchers who access files from the more than 155,000 items in the Digital Archive. The Museum is committed to digital asset management and ensuring the preservation of its collection of historical and culturally unique resources, which serve as a valuable resource for the public.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Program Areas Served
None
