Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Specialty Museum · Bristol, Virginia
A Smithsonian-affiliated museum in Bristol built around a fortnight in the summer of 1927, when a Victor Talking Machine Company producer set up a temporary studio on State Street and recorded seventy-six songs by nineteen acts — among them the first records the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers ever made. Congress named Bristol the Birthplace of Country Music in 1998, and the museum has a working radio station broadcasting from inside it.
101 Country Music Way, Bristol, Virginia, 24201, United States
Generally 10 AM - 5 PM Tuesday to Saturday and shorter hours on Sunday; usually closed Mondays. Check before travelling. Live performances and Radio Bristol sessions on a published schedule.
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