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3,550-acre nature preserve and city-owned park, features 44-acre lake, a nature center with a planetarium theater, animal exhibits, and an adventure ropes course Beaman Park Nature Center: Nashville: Davidson: Middle Tennessee: website, operated by the City, over 1,700 acres Bells Bend Outdoor Center: Nashville: Davidson: Middle Tennessee
Today, the Parthenon, which functions as an art museum, stands as the centerpiece of Centennial Park, a large public park just west of downtown Nashville. Alan LeQuire's 1990 re-creation of the Athena Parthenos statue in the naos (the east room of the main hall) is the focus of the Parthenon just as it was in ancient Greece.
The site today covers 1,120 acres (450 ha), which includes the original 1,050-acre (420 ha) tract of Jackson's land. It is overseen and managed by The Andrew Jackson Foundation, formerly called the Ladies' Hermitage Association.
Cheekwood is a 55-acre (22 ha) historic estate on the western edge of Nashville, Tennessee that houses the Cheekwood Estate & Gardens.Formerly the residence of Nashville's Cheek family, the 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m 2) Georgian-style mansion was opened as a botanical garden and art museum in 1960.
The Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) is located in the James K. Polk Cultural Center at 505 Deaderick Street in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. It occupies a city block between 5th and 6th Avenues North and Deaderick and Union Streets. The cultural center adjoins the 18-story James K. Polk State Office Building.
An interpretation centre, interpretive centre, or visitor interpretive centre is an institution for dissemination of knowledge of natural or cultural heritage. Interpretation centres are a kind of new-style museum, often associated with visitor centres or ecomuseums , and located in connection to cultural, historic or natural sites.
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It is home to the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. [7] It has previously hosted the Memphis mayor's swearing in ceremony, [8] the Memphis Music Hall of Fame ceremony, [9] and the Miss United States pageant. [10] The center had a complete cosmetic update, along with the associated Cook Convention Center, in 2018. [11]