Something For UT Football Fanatics - "Hometown Tennessee" Exhibit Opens Monday April 7 at TN State Museum in Nashville

Submitted by sherrie on Sat, 2008/04/05 - 3:27am.

An exhibition, organized by the Tennessee State Museum, celebrating the history, industry, and community spirit of towns throughout the state opens
April 7, at Legislative Plaza in the War Memorial Building.

Visitors can examine the past through everyday artifacts such as postcards, patent medicine bottles, and white oak baskets associated with great Tennessee towns. The exhibit will showcase the history of local communities, as well as the museum’s vast collections which document the state’s storied past. It is free and open to the public through May 1, 2008. Visit the Tennessee State Museum page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...)for more info and other pictures from this and their upcoming Renoir exhibition.

Cotton Bowl Program A program from the 1951 Cotton Bowl where the University of Tennessee football team captured the national championship.

A variety of everyday artifacts from 25 representative communities from around the state were selected to provide visitors with glimpses of Tennessee’s heritage.

“The State Museum collects artifacts from communities all across the state. These holdings contain an abundance of crafts, military collectibles, household items, childhood toys, business artifacts, sports memorabilia, and other objects that comprise the material culture and heritage of our state,” according to Miranda Fraley, the museum’s manager of curatorial interpretive planning.

The unique past and cultural significance of each featured community will be presented through historical banners and selected artifacts.

Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community.

Sherrie

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