Which Neighborhood in Nashville Has the Most Murals?

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Murals in Nashville come and go as walls are repainted and buildings change, so a ranking of neighborhoods by mural count goes out of date fast. What you can plan around are the well-known murals and their stories. The “I Believe in Nashville” design began after the May 2010 flood, when artist Adrien Saporiti, known as DCXV, painted the words on a wall in the Marathon Village area. Kelsey Montague’s “What Lifts You” wings are part of a series of interactive murals she maps around the world. To see several murals in a few hours, pick one walkable neighborhood and map the murals there before you go.

Two Murals and Their Stories

Mural Story Source
I Believe in Nashville painted by Adrien Saporiti (DCXV) in the Marathon Village area after the May 2010 flood, when more than 11 inches of rain fell in two days; it became a citywide rallying cry and later grew into versions such as "I Believe in Heroes" near Second Avenue and Broadway I Believe in Nashville
What Lifts You wings interactive wings by artist Kelsey Montague, whose site keeps a map of her pieces worldwide Kelsey Montague Art

Sources: I Believe in Nashville and Kelsey Montague Art.

Check the artists’ own sites or maps for current locations before you go, since murals move, get repainted, or come down when buildings change.

Planning a Mural Walk

  1. Choose one walkable neighborhood. Walk Score’s March 2024 ranking of Nashville’s most walkable neighborhoods is a good shortlist; it is in which Nashville neighborhoods are walkable.
  2. Map the murals the night before in a map app, and note the street address of each one.
  3. Go early. Well-known walls can have a line for photos.
  4. Be considerate. Murals are on private buildings; stay off private property, do not block sidewalks or business entrances, and buy something if you use a shop’s wall.

Getting between neighborhoods on foot is covered in whether you can walk between Nashville neighborhoods.

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