Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art is one of the finest examples of an American Country Place Era Estate in the United States. The 55-acre Botanical Garden & Museum of Art was built by the Maxwell House Coffee fortune. The Botanical Garden at Cheekwood is a spectacular showcase of color and horticultural diversity. With eleven specialty display gardens and stunning natural landscape, every season offers something new. Visit the Museum of Art with Collections of American and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, and English and American decorative arts.

Cheekwood currently has a robust collection of more than 8,000 objects, including paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, and decorative arts. The Botanical Garden has also expanded, now featuring eighteen collections displayed within eleven beautiful specialty gardens, Thanks to the generosity of the Garden Club of Nashville the Howe Garden is in the process of a near-$1 million renovation and will open to the public in April, 2012. The Sigourney Cheek Literary Garden is also under construction and will open this Spring.

We look forward to 2012 and the great line up of exhibitions: from the continuation of Visions of the American West: Masterworks from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center through March 4 and the opening of Every Tree Tells a Story in May, to April’s Cheekwood in Bloom festival featuring 22,000 tulips.  We will also continue to showcase art in the Garden with a focus on sculpture as we debut the Martin Shallenberger Artist-in-Residence program with French artist Mathilde Roussel and as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Treehouses featuring Great Works of American Literature.