The Patsy Cline Museum positioned at 119 third Ave S within the Decrease Broadway hall of Nashville might be closing completely on Could fifteenth. Initially opened in April of 2017 on the second flooring of the Johnny Money Museum constructing, the area turned a pilgrimage for followers of Patsy Cline, and a spot for her Corridor of Fame legacy to be enshrined after she died tragically on March fifth, 1963 in a aircraft crash.
Although Patsy Cline’s profession was short-lived, she’s one of the crucial vital and profitable ladies to ever sing nation music, and her recordings proceed to strongly affect an entire host of latest performers in nation music and past. However apparently, having a everlasting area for her legacy in Music Metropolis is just not valued sufficient. The displays are being decommissioned to make extra room for an growth of the Johnny Money Museum.
The present Patsy Cline Museum area options a whole lot of beforehand unseen photos, movies, artifacts, and private belongings of Patsy Cline. It’s unclear the place the artifacts will go after the museum is closed.
In the meantime, that is the second time the Johnny Money Museum will increase in lieu of paying tribute to a different nation music legend. In October of 2017, shortly after the opening of the Patsy Cline Museum, plans had been introduced to open a Merle Haggard Museum on the property as properly, together with “Merle’s Meat + 3 Saloon” restaurant. The restaurant and museum had been being opened in coordination with Merle’s household and his widow Theresa Haggard.
Nevertheless, on February fifth, 2019 after many delays, the Johnny Money Museum proprietor, Icon Leisure’s Invoice Miller, mentioned the Merle Haggard idea wouldn’t be transferring ahead, and as a substitute they might be opening “Johnny Money’s Kitchen & Saloon.”
The Johnny Money Museum is taken into account a landmark music museum, and was voted one of the best music museum in 2023, 2024, and 2025 within the USA In the present day Readers Ballot. However the Patsy Cline Museum was rated #9 in the identical 2025 ballot, and it’s truthful to ask if one other growth of the museum on the expense of Patsy Cline is equitable.
Maybe if the Patsy Cline Museum was being extra strongly supported by the general public, we’d not be seeing its shuttering. Clearly, Johnny Money’s legacy looms giant in American tradition, nevertheless it’s not beneath risk of being forgotten like Patsy Cline’s could possibly be.
After the closing of The George Jones Museum in 2021, this leaves Decrease Broadway with just one true legend museum, together with the Nation Music Corridor of Fame just a few blocks away. In the meantime, we’re nonetheless awaiting phrase on the reopening of the Ernest Tubb File Store, if it’s going to even be a document store when it’s ultimately unveiled in any respect.
