Tennessee State Museum

Assalaamu Alaykum world.  My mother, my grandmother, my teenage sister and I went to Nashville July 18th to July 20th 2015.  We went to the Tennessee State Museum after attending the Tennessee State War Memorial on July 18, 2015.     This post is about the Tennessee State Museum which was nice.  It was divided into different time periods throughout USA history.

Producing for Every Home

Pottery Making in Tennessee

The Diversity of Urban Life

Anemities and Public Services

The below picture is an oil painting of General George H. Thomas and below that is the sign next to the painting talking briefly about him.

This has both a mummy and a mummified cat in it.
The mummy is 3,600 years old and brought to TN in 1860.

Bust of Jenny Lind 

Housing on the Frontier 

Mastadon tusk and jaw

American Mastodon

The above picture I had to darken to eliminate the glare from the sunlight but this is what the sign says.

AMERICAN MASTODON
(Mammut americanum)
The American Mastodon was commonly found in the forests of North America during the Middle to Late Ice Age and became extinct about 10,000 years ago.  Usually it attained a height of about ten feet at the shoulders, had a long massive body with short, stocky legs and fed on plant life.   The mastodon had a flatter head, heavier and larger tusks and longer hair than the modern elephant, which it resembles.

American Mastodon being hunted by early man