Flood Destroys Music Valley Wax Museum

From one of Minnesota Fats’ pool tables to rare records and country music stars’ clothes.

With one historic stroke of bad luck, the museum is now destroyed. The tourist attraction on McGavock Pike near Opryland was submerged in waist-deep water during Nashville’s unprecedented flooding. As the floodwaters recede, the museum is just one of many businesses picking through pieces and trying to figure out what to do next.

“The museum was devastated,” “It’s wiped out. ... .”

The museum was a soggy and surreal mess of decapitated wax figures and other memorabilia. Employees frantically removed heads and placed them on high shelves to save them from rising floodwaters during the 2010 flood.

Many of the wax figures floated out of the museum during the flood, and a few were mistaken for actual people in distress. Emergency personnel tried to save these figures by getting in harms way within the strong waters; they thought they were saving a live person.

There remains a "Sidewalk of Stars" outside of the Music Valley Wax Music; many country stars had placed their hands and feet within concrete.

Since this wax museum building is up for sale now, what will happen to this concrete memorabilia?