Nashville Opera On Tour: Goldie B. Locks & the Three Singing Bears
The Nashville Opera is on tour with a free performance for children and Museum guests, a presentation of “Goldie B. Locks & the Three Singing Bears.” Introduce your children to opera with John Davies’ fun operatic retelling of the classic children’s fairy tale, Goldie Locks!
The adventure teaches children the true meaning of friendship and the importance of honesty. This is a family-friendly 40-minute production sung in English and set to music by Mozart and Offenbach, with full sets and costumes, and a cast of four professional opera singers and a pianist, all members of the Nashville Opera’s Mary Ragland Emerging Artist Program. No reservations required. Saturday, March 22, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM in the Grand Hall.
Lunch and Learn: We Are North Nashville Podcast now online
“We Are North Nashville: The Podcast” is about the lives of elders who call North Nashville home, in their own words. It’s about the ways the elders have kept joy alive in their neighborhood in spite of all the challenges it has faced. It’s about the history that newcomers to the city don’t always know, or even think to ask about. It’s about walking the streets and still seeing the way people held this place together, even when city planners set about ripping it apart. This event took place Friday, February 28, 2025 in the Museum’s Digital Learning Center and can be viewed online anytime on the TSM website: tnmuseum.org
Welcome Lafayette, Friend of Liberty, temporary exhibition
During the American Revolution, the Marquis de Lafayette of France volunteered to fight in the Continental Army. His service became a symbol of the alliance between France and the burgeoning United States. Lafayette became a trusted army officer and valued friend of George Washington. In 1824 and 1825, Lafayette returned to the United States for a tour stretching from New York to Louisiana, including stops in Nashville and Clarksville, Tennessee. When he arrived at the Nashville Public Square, on May 4, 1825, a sign proclaimed, “Welcome Lafayette, Friend of Liberty.”
On the 200th anniversary of the tour, explore what Lafayette’s visit meant to Tennesseans through a temporary display of artifacts from the collection of the Museum and other institutions in the Corridor Gallery on the second level through June 15, 2025. Artifacts from the TSM collection include shoes worn and goblets used at a ball honoring Lafayette in Nashville; a curtain hung from a bed in a Nashville home where he stayed; a souvenir paperweight; a commemorative saucer; a pistol carried by one of Lafayette’s guards during his visit in Nashville; and a cane made from a hickory branch at Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage cut during General Lafayette’s visit by S.P. Ament.
Chief Curator Richard White will explore what Lafayette’s visit meant to Tennesseans and how artifacts in the State Museum’s collection, now on display for a limited time, tell the story of that legacy. Lunch and Learn: Collecting Lafayette: 200 Years of the Marquis’s Visit to Nashville, Thursday, March 20, 2025, from 12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM.
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