Right next to the Bicentennial Capitol Mall, the Tennessee State Museum gives families a gift: permanent admission is free — and its Children’s Gallery was designed just for visitors ages 3 to 8, with hands-on play that turns state history into an adventure.
Little ones can dress up, build, ‘drive’ and create their way through Tennessee stories, while the grown-up galleries upstairs carry families from fossils and First Peoples to music legends and a planetarium-style theater.
Steps from the farmers’ market and the mall’s fountains, it might be the happiest free museum day in Nashville — history at kid height, priced for every family.
