Country Music Hall of Fame and museum-as-'church' jokes

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum houses exhibits, archives, and artifacts documenting country music history and is a major museum in downtown Nashville. It preserves and displays stage costumes, instruments, recordings, and other memorabilia tied to prominent country artists. Visitors and locals sometimes jokingly call it a "church" for country music fans, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the reverent way many people treat the museum's exhibits and inductees.