Johnny Cash Museum
The Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville showcases the largest collection of Johnny Cash memorabilia, including personal letters, stage costumes, and handwritten lyrics.
Planning your visit
The Johnny Cash Museum holds the largest collection of Cash material anywhere, assembled by a private collector and displayed on Third Avenue in downtown Nashville. Handwritten lyrics, stage costumes including the black suits, guitars, letters, awards, film and television material, and personal effects cover a career that ran from Sun Records in the 1950s to the American Recordings sessions shortly before his death in 2003.
The Folsom Prison and San Quentin material is a highlight, as is a section on his marriage to June Carter, and a wall of stone salvaged from the Hendersonville house that burned down in 2007.
The museum is compact and dense rather than sprawling, which suits it — this is a single artist covered thoroughly rather than a genre survey.
It sits a block from Broadway's honky-tonks, and combination tickets with the adjacent Patsy Cline Museum upstairs are available. Allow ninety minutes. Bookable options include skip-the-line private guided tours. Current availability is shown below.
Before you book
Where is Johnny Cash Museum?
Johnny Cash Museum is in Nashville, United States. The map on this page marks its exact location.
How long should I allow for Johnny Cash Museum?
Allow ninety minutes. That is the time the collection itself takes at an unhurried pace, before any queue.
Do I need to book Johnny Cash Museum in advance?
Skip-the-line entry is worth booking ahead here: the saving is the queue, which is exactly what sells out.
