Welcome to Nashville!

The National Preservation Conference provides all-important know-how, innovative ideas, and inspiration for people saving America's historic places and revitalizing communities. The Conference is the premier educational and networking event for community leaders, volunteers and staff of the historic preservation movement.

Take advantage of the opportunity to explore and learn from the preservation challenges and successes in Nashville and the communities and countryside that surround it. Learn how the region creates its future in harmony with its pasts: Pasts filled with frontier hardships, Civil War battles, civil rights struggles, New South energy, and urban and rural dynamics that lead to and shape the present encompassing modernism and history. The stories are told in plantations and farms, town squares, battlefields, city streets, historic African-American institutions, 19th and 20th century neighborhoods, and music venues from intimate bars to the world-famous Ryman Auditorium.