Unusual museums in Nashville

Looking for unusual museums & collections in Nashville? These 5 are the genuinely strange ones — Lane Motor Museum, Jefferson Street Sound Museum, Tennessee Central Railway Museum and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Nashville they'd never find on their own.

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Lane Motor Museum Founder Jeff Lane started with 70-80 personal cars stuffed into a former bakery; the collection is now 500+ m… South Nashville / Elm Hill
Jefferson Street Sound Museum Founder Lorenzo Washington built a room-by-room archive of Jefferson Street's 1940s-70s R&B and soul scene —… North Nashville / Jefferson Street
Tennessee Central Railway Museum An all-volunteer heritage railroad running since 1989 out of a restored freight depot, packed with railroad a… South Nashville
Cooter's Place Founded and stocked by Ben Jones — the actor who actually played Cooter Davenport on The Dukes of Hazzard — t… Music Valley (near Opryland)
COOP Gallery Nashville's longest-running artist-run project space, tucked inside a converted industrial building called Th… Wedgewood-Houston, inside The Packing Plant