Women's suffrage museum to open in Knoxville

The largest museum dedicated to the women’s suffrage movement will soon open its doors in Knoxville. The Suffrage Coalition is working with the team behind Pigeon Forge’s Titanic Museum to create a new immersive museum experience in Knoxville featuring more than 1,000 artifacts telling the story of how women earned the right to vote. The museum will highlight the suffrage fight across America but also showcase how Tennessee and particularly East Tennessee played a major role in the passage of the 19th Amendment. The 9,000-square-foot museum on South Gay Street is expected to open in 2008. So far, the Suffrage Coalition has purchased the building for $2 million and is working to raise an additional $2.9 million to expand into a neighboring property, bringing the final museum footprint to around 25,000 square feet.