After visiting the Military exhibit, headed across the street to visit the Tennessee State Museum. Wowsers, it's huge. Widing down from the first floor, you go from Paloeindians to the early parts of the 1900s. The whole building was well-lit and cool. Admission is free and on the weekends you can park near the state Capitol for free, about a two block walk, but going back to your car is downhill.
I adored the prehistory section, but I really enjoyed that the museum focused so much on every day life. Found a Clovis point! (Doing a dig this second session at UT, running joke is someone's going to shave their head if we find one.)
There was a great display on Woodland pottery, I really enjoyed the section on religious pottery. There was a display in the same section that showed a 'hut scene', where I thought one of their models just looked sad.
Further into the museum, but still on the first floor was a display on traveling preachers and revivals in the 1800s. There was a small hall you walked down and a preacher started talking. It was dark with candlelights and trees all around.
On the third (lowest) level, there was a great display of of handmade quilts.
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