Launch Of Two Online Exhibitions Allows The Country Music Hall Of Fame® And Museum To Serve A Broader Audience
One exhibition, Suiting the Sound: The Rodeo Tailors Who Made Country Stars Shine Bright, explores the artistry of Western-wear designers who helped create the indelible rhinestone cowboy image.
The second exhibit, Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City, examines the artists and musicians who contributed to Nashville s expansion as a music center in the 1960s.
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® and Museum unveiled new, free-to-access online exhibitions:
. These multimedia exhibits are the first designed exclusively for the museum s website.
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Suiting the Sound: The Rodeo Tailors Who Made Country Stars Shine Brighter and
Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City. These multimedia exhibits are the first designed exclusively for the museum’s website.
“As a national history museum and global cultural institution, we are charged to consistently expand access to the museum’s collection and the interpretive work of our curators and historians, while advancing the documentation and preservation of American musical history,” said museum CEO Kyle Young. “These online exhibitions, made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, enabled the museum to create this novel exhibit platform. With it, we are not only able to reshare the story of the artists and musicians who helped to broaden Nashville’s reputation as a true Music City, but also to tell a new story, that of the clothiers who created unmistakable designs that are now synonymous with country music.”