This 60 minute guided tour will take you through the history of letterpress printing. You will be able to immerse yourself in the process of how posters were printed in the old days. When the tour is over you will be able to take your commemorative poster home to show your family and friends. Redeem voucher at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Actual tour times will be assigned at the time of redemption. Guests are encouraged to arrive before 11:00am to select from the greatest availability.
Â
Additional details
This 60 minute guided tour will take you through the history of letterpress printing. You will be able to immerse yourself in the process of how posters were printed in the old days. When the tour is over you will be able to take your commemorative poster home to show your family and friends. Redeem voucher at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Actual tour times will be assigned at the time of redemption. Guests are encouraged to arrive before 11:00am to select from the greatest availability.
Â
Founded by brothers Charles and Herbert Hatch, this iconic shop opened in Nashville in 1879. For much of the twentieth century, the shop’s vibrant posters served as a leading advertising medium for Southern entertainment, and included work for many members of the Grand Ole Opry such as Bill Monroe, Minnie Pearl, and Ernest Tubb, and for rock & Roll icons such as Elvis and Chuck Berry. Also, thousands of posters and billboard-size advertisements were printed for the traveling vaudeville and minstrel shows, circuses, and carnivals barnstorming across the country. In 1992, Hatch Show Print became an historic property of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
On a 1 hour guided experience, learn more about this iconic letterpress poster shop. The tour of legendary Hatch Show Print will engage your senses: Listen to the presses crank as you learn more about the history of Hatch Show Print, see the brilliantly colored posters that put the shop on the map in the last century and compare them with the posters printed today for your favorite entertainers, handle some of the tools of the trade and smell the ink as you pull your own keepsake print in our print shop-within-a-print shop Space for Design.
