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Tennessee State Museum

First Kurdish American wins top prize at Tennessee Craft for textile work that captures the immigrant experience

Paige PflegerandNina Cardona

November 15, 2021

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This year, for the first time, the top prize at a biennial exhibit of Tennessee Craft has gone to an artist from the state’s Kurdish community.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, from Nashville to Erbil, WPLN News Tagged With: Art, Immigration, Kurdistan, Kurds, Nashville Kurds, refugee, Tennessee Craft, Tennessee State Museum

Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Bust Can Officially Be Removed From Tennessee Capitol, But No One Is Sure When It Will Be

Paige Pfleger

July 9, 2021

The bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest at the Tennessee State Capitol

The bust of confederate general and KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest could technically be removed from the state capitol Friday, but instead it is caught in a sort of legislative hot potato.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Nathan Bedford Forrest, Tennessee Historical Commission, Tennessee State Capitol, Tennessee State Museum

Audit: Water Leaks At Tennessee State Museum Put Artifacts In Jeopardy

Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

June 20, 2019

Listen The Tennessee State Museum is facing problems that range from water leaks to a lack of internal control over inventory, a new audit by the Tennessee Comptroller’s office has found. According to the agency, some of these issues put the state’s collections at risk.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Tennessee State Museum, Tom Smith

New Tennessee State Museum To Display Artifacts Never Exhibited Before

Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

October 4, 2018

Listen If you ask Dan Pomeroy how he feels about the new Tennessee State Museum, you can immediately see how excited he gets. Pomeroy is the chief curator of the museum, a project funded mostly through $120 million appropriated by the state legislature. After two and a half years of construction next to the Nashville […]

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: News, Tennessee State Museum

Dormant Plans Revived To Build New Tennessee State Museum, Archives

Nina Cardona

August 23, 2013

The vacant lots North of Nashville’s Bicentennial Mall could soon house bulldozers and construction crews. Mayor Karl Dean is pushing to erect a baseball stadium just blocks away and things seem to be moving forward for a pair of new state buildings.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Bi-Centennial Mall, Jim Hoobler, Tennessee State Museum

A Rare Chance to See the Emancipation Proclamation

Nina Cardona

February 12, 2013

The document that freed thousands of Southern slaves 150 years ago is at the Tennessee State Museum this week. The original Emancipation Proclamation is the centerpiece of an exhibit on Civil War history that opened Tuesday.

Filed Under: History, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Emancipation Proclamation, Tennessee State Museum

Chance to See Historic Document Hinges on Lottery

Nina Cardona

September 10, 2012

The original Emancipation Proclamation is coming to the Tennessee State Museum for just seven days early next year. The only way for any school to schedule a field trip is to enter a lottery.

Filed Under: History, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Emancipation Proclamation, Tennessee State Museum

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