Museums in Tennessee

A museum dedicated to preserving, promoting, and advancing the art and craft of fine metalwork.

A fictional Coupe DeVille built by hand and gifted to the Man in Black himself.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

The longest-serving U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner was born in this humble cabin.

The site of the Scopes Trial contains a small exhibit dedicated to the famous case.

This limestone outcropping was once a ceremonial site for ancient Native Americans.

This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

This museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.

One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

An homage to the pointers and retrievers that have long been a hunter's best friend.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.