The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, is one of the world's largest museums and research centers dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of American vernacular music. Chartered in 1964, the museum has amassed one of the world's most extensive musical collections; the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is one of the world's largest and most active popular music research centers and the world's largest repository of country music artifacts. Early in the 1960s, as the Country Music Association's campaign to publicize country music was accelerating, CMA leaders determined that a new organization was needed to operate a country music museum and to carry out research and education activities beyond CMA's scope as a trade organization. Toward this end, the nonprofit Country Music Foundation was chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964 to collect and publicize information and artifacts relating to the history of country music. Through CMF, industry leaders raised money with the effort of CMA Executive Director Jo Walker-Meador, to build the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, which opened on April 1, 1967.

Located at the head of Music Row, the museum was erected on the site of a small Nashville city park. At this point, artifacts began to be displayed and a small library was begun in a loft above one of the museum's galleries. Early in the 1970s the basement of the museum building was complete, library expansion began, embracing not only recordings but books and periodicals, sheet music and songbooks, business documents, other materials. At the outset, CMA staff had run the museum, but by 1972 the museum acquired its own small staff, which has increased to over 150 full-time professionals. Building expansion took place in 1974, 1977, 1984 to store and display the museum's growing collection of costumes, historic cars, musical instruments, other artifacts. An education department was created to conduct ongoing programs with Middle Tennessee schools, an oral history program was begun, a publications department was launched to handle books, as well as the Journal of Country Music. To become more accessible, in May 2001 the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum moved to a new, 130,000-square-foot facility in the heart of downtown Nashville's arts and entertainment district.

In 2014, the museum unveiled a $100 million expansion, doubling its size to 350,000 square feet of galleries, archival storage, education classrooms, retail stores, special event space. In the museum's core exhibition, Sing Me Back Home: A Journey Through Country Music, visitors are immersed in the history and sounds of country music, its origins and traditions, the stories and voices of many of its architects; the story is revealed through artifacts and text panels, recorded sound, vintage video, interactive touchscreens. Sing Me Back Home is enhanced by rotating limited-engagement exhibits; the new ACM Gallery and the Dinah and Fred Gretsch Family Gallery offer visitors a hands-on immersion into today's country music with artifacts from today's country stars and a series of technology-enhanced activities. In addition to the galleries, the museum has the 776-seat CMA Theater, the Taylor Swift Education Center, multi-purpose event rental spaces. Other historic properties of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum include the letterpress operation Hatch Show Print and Historic RCA Studio B, Nashville's oldest surviving recording studio, where recordings by Elvis Presley, Dolly Parton, Waylon Jennings, many others were made.

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum has developed multiple platforms to make its collection accessible to a wider audience. From weekly instrument demonstrations to its flagship songwriting program for schools, Words & Music, the museum offers an aggressive schedule of educational programs; the museum operates CMF Records, a Grammy-winning re-issue label. The museum features The Sources of Country Music, by Thomas Hart Benton, it was Benton's final work. Membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the highest honor a country music professional can receive, is extended to performers, broadcasters and executives in recognition of their contributions to the development of country music; the Country Music Hall of Fame honor was created in 1961 by the Country Music Association. Roy Acuff, the first living artist to join the Hall of Fame, was elected in 1962; the most recent inductees are Ray Stevens. Over the Hall of Fame's history, the number of new members inducted each year has varied from one to twelve.

The election procedure is as follows: A small CMA nominating committee drafts slates of candidates from each category. Award recipients are determined through a two-stage balloting process; the large select committee of electors that votes on Hall of Fame membership is composed of CMA members who have participated in the country music industry for at least ten years. New Hall of Fame members receive special recogni

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General William Anson McCleverty was a British soldier who served as the Commander-in-chief of the Madras Army from 1867 to 1871. Born the son of Major-General Robert McCleverty, McCleverty was commissioned in the 48th Regiment of Foot in 1824. McCleverty served in campaigns against the Maharajah of Coorg and in New Zealand during the Wanganui Campaign, he lived in New Zealand from 1846 to 1857, returned to New Zealand for another period. Promoted to major-general, he became commander of Madras district in 1860, General Officer Commanding South-Eastern District in October 1866 and Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army in November 1867 before retiring from that post in March 1871. From 1868 to 1875 he held the colonelcy of the 108th Regiment of Foot from which he transferred as colonel in 1875 to the 48th Regiment of Foot, continuing on its amalgamation in 1881 as colonel of the 1st Battalion of the resultant Northamptonshire Regiment, a position he held until his death, he was promoted full General on 17 March 1876.

McCleverty died on 6 October 1897 at the age of ninety-one. McCleverty painted in watercolours and several of his works are held by the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington and the National Library of Australia in Canberra