Where Is the Country Music Hall of Fame?

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The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is at 222 Rep. John Lewis Way South in downtown Nashville, on the street that was Fifth Avenue South until the city renamed the stretch between Broadway and Oak Street after the late congressman (NBC News). That puts it just south of Broadway, near Bridgestone Arena at 5th and Broadway, so you can walk there from the honky-tonks. The museum is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central, and adult admission is $31.95 (Country Music Hall of Fame).

Visit Basics
Address 222 Rep. John Lewis Way S, Nashville
Hours open daily, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT
Busiest time the museum names 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. as peak hours and suggests visiting outside that window
Museum admission adult (13 and up) $31.95; youth (6 to 12) $21.95
Add-on tours RCA Studio B guided tour $23.00; Hatch Show Print guided tour $23.00
Packages Museum + RCA Studio B, adult $54.95, youth $44.95; Museum + Hatch Show Print, adult $54.95

Prices are from the museum’s ticket page as of October 2026.

The Building

  • Its move downtown. The museum moved to a new 140,000-square-foot building downtown in May 2001, and in 2014 a $100 million expansion doubled it to 350,000 square feet (Wikipedia).
  • Its design. Seen from the air, the building forms a bass clef; the front windows resemble piano keys, and the tower on top of the Rotunda is a replica of the diamond-shaped WSM radio tower, according to the same article.
  • What else is inside. The 776-seat CMA Theater, the Taylor Swift Education Center, and Hatch Show Print, a letterpress shop the museum dates to 1879.
  • On display. Wikipedia lists Elvis Presley’s 1960 “Solid Gold” Cadillac limousine among the vehicles in the collection.

Getting There from Broadway

  1. On foot, head south from Broadway near Bridgestone Arena; the museum is on the stretch of Rep. John Lewis Way South that starts at Broadway.
  2. For RCA Studio B, book the tour with your ticket; the studio is a separate historic property of the museum, and the museum page describes it as the place where Elvis Presley, Dolly Parton, Roy Orbison, and Waylon Jennings recorded hits.

What is at the corner of 5th and Broadway, near the museum, is in what Fifth and Broadway is, and the nearby arena is in what Bridgestone Arena is.

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