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Nashville · Things to do

Checked August 2026 · 8 official sources
THINGS TO DO
Nashville's daytime is mostly museums about music, plus one full-scale Greek temple in a public park, and almost all of it sits within a mile or two of the river.
Neon honky-tonk signs on Lower Broadway in Nashville
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
222 Rep. John Lewis Way S, open daily 9am–5pm. Beyond the Hall of Fame rotunda it runs tours of Historic RCA Studio B and Hatch Show Print, a working letterpress shop since 1879; both are add-ons booked alongside museum admission.
Ryman Auditorium
116 Rep. John Lewis Way N. Self-guided tours run 9am–4pm daily at $25.54 and include an onstage photo; the guided backstage tour is $46.85 and adds the dressing rooms. It is still a working venue, so tour hours shift on show days.
Grand Ole Opry
The Opry House at 600 Opry Mills Drive, out by the mall rather than downtown, stages the radio show most Tuesday to Saturday nights at 7pm. It is a rotating bill of several acts doing short sets, not one headliner — you get a cross-section of country in an evening.
National Museum of African American Music
598 Broadway; Tue–Sat 10am–5pm, Monday and Sunday noon–5pm, last entry 4pm. Adult admission is $33.33 and includes an RFID wristband that saves what you record in the interactive galleries. Free on the first Wednesday of each month.
The Parthenon, Centennial Park
Full-scale replica of the Athens Parthenon at 2500 West End Avenue, built for Tennessee's 1897 Centennial Exposition and now the city's art museum. Inside are a 42-foot Athena, plaster casts of the Parthenon Marbles and 63 American paintings from the Cowan collection.