Origins of Nashville's Parthenon

A new installation about the Parthenon explores its fascinating origin story, as the Fine Arts Building for the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition, held in what is now Centennial Park to celebrate Tennessee's hundredth year as a state. The exhibition delves into the Centennial Exposition (similar to a World's Fair), exploring how Nashville presented itself to a national audience a generation after the Civil War. The exhibition features many rare and seldom exhibited objects, artifacts, and souvenirs… Show more from the Centennial Exposition and the Parthenon over the past 115 years. Local lawyer, collector, historian, and ninth-generation Nashvillian David Ewing has loaned his entire collection of Exposition and Parthenon memorabilia, amassed over the past twenty years, to the Parthenon for this exhibition. The exhibition will also feature props from the film "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief," part of which was filmed in Centennial Park in 2009.

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