Located in downtown Clarksville, the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center is one of Tennessee's largest museums of general interest. The museum features permanent as well as rotating art, history, and science exhibitions for all ages. There is also an interactive children’s exhibit. The museum is located in the former Federal Post Office and Custom House built in 1898 and has an interesting mix of styles: Italianate, Queen Anne, Flemish, Gothic, and Romanesque. It became a museum in 1983, collecting, preserving, and interpreting Clarksville’s community culture and past. Some of the most popular permanent exhibitions are The Explorers' Gallery, Memory Lane, displays about the American expansion into Tennessee, and Becoming Clarksville: Honoring Legacies of Leadership about people who shaped Clarksville’s history.

200 S 2nd St, Clarksville, TN 37040, Phone: 931-648-5780

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