Virtual tour: National Museum of African American Music opens doors in downtown Nashville

Two decades after it was first imagined, the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) is now open in Nashville. Due to COVID-19, NMAAM staff and other officials will hold a small, virtual event for the organization’s official ribbon-cutting ceremony today. The museum will open to the public on Jan. 30. You can view the museum in the slideshow accompanying this story. Being able to hold the ceremony on Martin Luther King Jr. Day wasn’t lost on NMAAM president and CEO H. Beecher…