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Appalachian women used affordable and easily attainable raw materials, such as home-grown wool and flax or cotton purchased by the bale, to create their art. They colored their hand spun fibers with natural plant matter or purchased packaged dyes and also used bits of their home-woven fabric to piece quilts.
The Museum of Appalachia, located in Norris, Tennessee, 20 miles (32 km) north of Knoxville, is a living history museum that interprets the pioneer and early 20th-century period of the Southern Appalachian region of the United States.
This list of museums in Tennessee encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
History attractions including the American Museum of the House Cat and the nearby Museum of the Cherokee People and Appalachian Women’s Museum.
Museum of Appalachia President Lindsey Meyer Gallaher, the late founder John Rice Irwin's granddaughter, speaks during a celebration of the life of Alex Haley for the Heroes of Southern Appalachia ...
The Kentucky Folk Art Center is a folk art museum administered by Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, United States. [1] Its focus is not only to preserve and educate the public on visual Appalachian folk art but also to promote traditional Appalachian traditional music, storytelling, literature, dance, and crafts.
Smithsonian American Women's History Museum; Spelman College Museum of Fine Art; Anne Spencer House; Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Cincinnati, Ohio) T.
This list of museums in Kentucky is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.