Hatch Show Print is a historic Nashville-based letterpress shop founded in 1879 that creates…read moreiconic, hand-carved posters for musicians and entertainment events. Located inside the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, it operates as a working museum using vintage wood/metal type to create posters for modern artists, preserving 20th-century Southern visual culture. I purchases a few postcards at their pop-up shop and took a look at the shop through their huge glass windows. The also sell online of which I went back for a Johnny Cash poster and a few themed ones that spoke to me. Unfortunately, their 2026 calendar sold out, so maybe next year?

On our second full day in Nashville, we had a tour of Hatch Show Print, a print shop which was…read morefounded in 1879. It's a very famous print shop that prints posters for musicians, sports teams, and everything in between, but we had never heard of it. The print shop is currently located in the same building as the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, and we discovered the print gift shop the day before, as we walked through the side entrance of the building instead of the main entrance to get to the museum, although we didn't realize at the time the significance and history of the print shop, or that there were tours available. We found out about the tour (and the existence of the print shop) when we went to purchase our tickets for the museum. At the ticket desk, there was a sign with the prices of museum tickets and print shop tours, and the very friendly museum employee asked us if we knew about the print shop, which we didn't. We didn't have time for a tour of the print shop the same day we went to the museum, but fortunately we were able to purchase tickets for the next day. The cost of the tour was $23US, and the tour was about an hour. They tell you about the history of the print shop and the printing technique used (letter press printing, no more than three runs through the press), and then you have the opportunity to "print" your own mini souvenir poster (the first two layers/colors are already done, and you put the poster through the press for the third round, adding the last color). What's really cool is that every year they have a different souvenir poster, so they sort of become collectors' items, and getting a mini poster is worth the cost of the tour. The majority of the tour, where they explain the history of the print shop and the printing technique, and where you print your poster, takes place in a room covered in posters. After the talk, they allow ample time for you to take photos of all the posters. I absolutely loved the tour, and it was one of the highlights of my trip to Nashville. We had never heard of Hatch Show Print, and we were thrilled to discover it. If you go to Nashville, a tour of the print shop is an absolute must. And after the tour, if you show your tour ticket, you get 10% off in the gift shop. (Of course we bought several items!) [Yelp collections: Nashville, TN 2026]