List of museums in Tennessee

Updated on Oct 04, 2024

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This list of museums in Tennessee encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

To use the sortable table, click on the icons at the top of each column to sort that column in alphabetical order; click again for reverse alphabetical order.

Defunct museums

Beale Street Police Museum, Memphis, closed in 2005. Media related to Beale Street Police Museum at Wikimedia Commons

Breweriana Museum, Millersville

Carbo's Smoky Mountain Police Museum, Pigeon Forge

Chattanooga Model Railroad Museum, Chattanooga, closed in 2015, may reopen in the Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel in the future

Dinosaur Walk Museum, Pigeon Forge, closed in 2011

Grand Guitar Museum, Bristol

Howard H. Baker, Jr. Museum, Knoxville, formerly part of the Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy, closed in 2012, exhibits on display around the facility

Museum of Tobacco Art and History, Nashville, closed in 1998

Music Valley Wax Museum, Nashville

Obion County Museum, Union City, closed in 2012, collections moved to Discovery Park of Americar

Smoky Mountain Car Museum, Pigeon Forge

Soda Museum, Springfield, also known as the Museum of Beverage Containers and Advertising

World of the Unexplained museum, Gatlinburg

References

List of museums in Tennessee Wikipedia

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