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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum announces expansions and extensions of exhibits

Courtesy Country Music Hall of Fame

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The critically-acclaimed exhibition “Family Tradition: The Williams Family Legacy," drew enough of a crowd that the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum decided to extend its close date from Dec. 31, 2009 to Dec. 31, 2011. Other exhibition changes will include additions and renovations to the museum’s core exhibit, “Sing Me Back Home: A Journey Through Country Music,” to be completed in May 2010.

 

Museum director Kyle Young said “Family Tradition” ranked the most popular and critically-acclaimed exhibit ever displayed at the museum.

 

“This is due not only to the family’s iconic stature and its influence on generations of artists, but also because of the participation of the members of the Williams family, each of whom has generously loaned us heirlooms and artifacts,” said Young. “Because each member of the family agreed to oral history video interviews, this is a powerful family saga that weds stark text and intimate family keepsakes to the voices, faces and memories of the family.”

 

Expansions to the exhibition will include new interviews and artifacts on loan from the family and other sources, which will be completed in March 2010.

 

Revisions to “Sing Me Back Home: A Journey Through Country Music” will add new themes, content, designs and videos to provide a more comprehensive look at the history of country music. The main focus of the expansion will cover the 1965 to 1971 time period in music with the rise of southern rock, comeback of the classic cowboy and the fashionable urban cowboy era.

 

New artifacts and videos will also reflect contemporary country’s latest artists, such as new exhibit cases on Brad Paisley, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban.

 

“This gives us the opportunity to collect and preserve country music history as it is being made,” said Young. “The revamping of existing exhibit cases and the addition of new exhibits, media, text, graphics and accompanying programs will mean an entirely new experience for our visitors.”