Nashville Hatch Show Guided Letterpress Tour with Souvenir Poster

Nashville, USA

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1 hour (approx.)
Offered in: English

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Overview

Learn the history and craft of letterpress printing on a guided tour of Hatch Show Print, one of the oldest working letterpress print shops in the United States. This Hatch Show Print tour includes the opportunity to make your own commemorative souvenir poster, and offers a fascinating look at Nashville ephemera, including posters for the Grand Ole Opry, vaudeville, circuses, carnivals, and minstrel shows. Multiple tour times are available.

Guided tour of Hatch Show Print
Print your own commemorative letterpress poster
Multiple times offered throughout the day
Family friendly

What's Included

1-Hour Guided Tour of the iconic Hatch Show Letterpress Print Shop
Create and take home your own commemorative souvenir poster

Admission to Country Music Hall of Fame is not included with this tour (tour located inside museum)

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
222 Rep. John Lewis Way S, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Hatch Show Print Studio is located at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Please redeem your voucher at the Museum prior to your tour.

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Arranged start time

Confirm time with the local provider in advance of your experience.

01/01/2026 - 12/31/2026
Monday - Sunday : 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

What To Expect

Make your way to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, where you can present this voucher and confirm your tour time; Hatch Show Print is just a few steps away from the Hall of Fame. For the greatest availability of tour times, guests are encouraged to arrive before 11am.

Hear the story of Charles and Herbert Hatch as you walk the floor of the print shop, with presses cranking, and colorful historic posters hung from every surface. Get your hands on the tools of the trade, and find out how letterpress printing goes from concept to finished product.

Throughout the tour, learn about the Nashville greats whose posters were printed by Hatch Show Print, including Bill Monroe, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and Minnie Pearl. Make your own commemorative poster from Hatch Show Print’s “print shop within a print shop,” and finish the tour with a souvenir from an iconic studio.

Note: Hatch Show Print Tour is located at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Admission to the museum is not included with this tour.

Hatch Show Print

Admission Ticket Included

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
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
Wheelchair accessible
Stroller accessible
Service animals allowed

Near public transportation
Transportation is wheelchair accessible
Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Most travelers can participate
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers

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Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

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Reviews

4.3

based on 61 reviews

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This wasn’t much of a...

Jonathan_M, Jan 2026

This wasn’t much of a tour but an excellent history lesson. You meet up outside of the gift shop and collect a sticker. You are then taken to their classroom where you get a wonderful lesson in printing and the Hatch itself. Once the class is over you are taken out into the lobby and shown the working from outside where anyone walking the lobby could see. The print you get to make is a small poster that is premade and you only get to add one predetermined item. For the price, it was worth the hour.

Great tour

Jim_W, Nov 2025

You will learn about the history of the print shop and its importance to the music world. You will make your own print to take home but it is based on their template, you won’t customize one. The educators are terrific. If you go on a weekday you can observe printers carving, mixing, and printing. And you get 10% off at the gift shop (they’ll ship for you if you do not want to carry your posters home)

Upper case & lower case! ❤️

Lisa_T, Oct 2025

They DO make them like they used to. A lovely demo and overview of this famous letterpress shop still in operation. Then chance to roll a third layer on a historical piece of equipment is so fun!

Art, Music & History

Edward_A, Jul 2025

The tour was an interesting blend of art, music and history. My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed it; even our teenaged kids said it was good.

Fun

Tevin_D, Nov 2024

It was very interesting and cool to see. Love making own poster. Lots of information about the business.

This turned out to be a...

Catherine_J, Apr 2024

This turned out to be a tour I glad I did. It was very interesting learning about the history of Hatch Show Print and how the printing process works.

Awesome in-person printing experience

Pamela_G, Nov 2023

We loved learning about the history of this amazing business, and then drooled over everything in the gift shop. Such cool merch! We loved making our very own print to bring home, and then being able to observe the workers using the presses was pretty amazing. Highly recommend.

Check it out!

David_V, Oct 2023

Super cool look at the History and Work of one of the great American institutions. Entertaining and knowledgable hosts create a fun atmosphere.

Best tour in Nashville!

Frances_V, Aug 2023

The Hatch Show Print tour is the best tour in town! The Hatch Show Print knowledgeable guides made the shop’s history interesting as well as humorous. In addition, all of the Viator personnel with whom I communicated to set up the tour were helpful and professional.

Hatch print

Karen_A, Oct 2022

Seeing the old equipment and that they still do everything the old fashion way still. Such a precise art

Great!!!

Karen_H, Jun 2022

Very informative and interesting!!! My kids were 17 and 21 they enjoyed it! I dont think it would be interesting for 11 and under.

Disappointed in Print

Alex_L, Jun 2022

When we arrived at the location for Hatch Show Print we were informed that they did not have our reservations. This left us with a morning with nothing planned on a busy holiday weekend.

Hatched Fun

Lynne_B, May 2022

Very interesting. We had enthusiastic guides that were excited to explain the techniques used to make posters

Cool experience

Lynn_S, Oct 2021

This was a cool experience. Interesting to see how the Hatch print works. I thought we were going to design our own poster at the end but that would have been very difficult now that I know how it works 🤪 It was fun to do the last process on the Souvenir Poster.

We were not allowed in

Ron_P, Apr 2021

We were not admitted because they said we needed to call them to reserve. Nothing said that in my confirmation. We brought a teen who only wanted to do hatch in Nashville. I talked to the head of reservations who was very nice but could not exceed head count. We need to get full refund plus!!!

Very cool thing to do while in Nashville

Jennifer_M, Mar 2021

Making your own print on the old press was very cool. It was also cool to learn about the history of Hatch Print. The guides were awesome, knowledgeable and very nice.

Scam?!?

TimothyDitchley, Jan 2021

The site sold us tickets that were not available and have not responded to requests for a refund. Would nit recommend.

Printing

Annamarie_R, Oct 2019

Great history lesson that pertains to printing, Nashville, music. Wished we could have made a personal print.

Alright

Brittany_B, Aug 2019

Lots of information, was neat to see but the tour felt a little long drawn out. Would have liked it better if it was a little more interactive with the sign making rather than standing or sitting and listening for most of the time.