Dolly Parton is the undisputed queen of country music. Over a nearly six-decade career, the 79-year-old Parton has sold more than 100 million albums and taken home 10 Grammy Awards, and in November 2024, she was named Billboard’s greatest country singer of all time. Her 1973 smash hit “Jolene,” her most-streamed song on Spotify, has been listened to more than 862 million times. Her musical Dolly—an autobiographical story about Parton’s ascent from poverty to country-music superstar, powered by her talent and determination—took stage this past summer in Nashville and is heading to Broadway in 2026. After Dolly’s sold-out run in Nashville, Parton will make her mark on Music City permanent with the June 2026 opening of the SongTeller Hotel, which will also be home to Dolly’s Life of Many Colors Museum.
Get a glimpse inside a replica of a Dolly Parton tour bus at the Dolly’s Life of Many Colors Museum.
Courtesy of Dolly’s Life of Many Colors Museum
The hotel is a partnership between Parton and Herschend Family Entertainment, the company that runs Parton’s theme park, Dollywood, in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. It will open in downtown Nashville on June 10, 2026, with 245 rooms and suites. The signature rooms will have black carpets covered with patterns that resemble sound waves, bedside sconces that look like records, and wallpaper depicting tickets from Parton’s past concerts.
The Acoustic suites will be decorated with Parton’s acoustic guitars (displayed on the walls), and guests themselves can put on a record and strum along or play the keyboard. The Six Sisters Suite, inspired by Parton’s five sisters, is prime for a slumber party of up to six guests, with a living room where friends and family can stay up all night talking on a gold and champagne couch beneath a rainbow-droplet chandelier. A 1,865-square-foot, two-story SongTeller Suite is also in the works.
In SongTeller Hotel’s Listening Lobby, complete with an oversized guitar-shaped table, a creative writing hour will be set aside for guests to try their hand at crafting lyrics.
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Beyond the rooms, there will also be two live-music venues that will serve Nashville-inspired bites and beverages: Parton’s Live, an intimate lounge on the second floor; and Jolene’s, where a lineup of emerging and established artists will play sets on the hotel’s top floor, to the backdrop of decor accented by hot-pink rose motifs and banquettes.
The hotel also plans to provide “signature experiences” that lean into the Dolly theme, such as playing selections from Parton’s robust song collection throughout the hotel and offering a creative writing hour in the Listening Lobby. A “Sunsets & Sequins Twilight Property Tour” will provide guests with more information and context about the hotel’s public areas and museum.
Head to Jolene’s on the top floor of the hotel to catch a set of live music.
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“SongTeller Hotel is Dolly’s love letter to Nashville,” says Merrill Puckett Miller, Herschend’s chief creative officer. “Through bold details, heartfelt tributes, and immersive moments, we want guests to step into her world and feel the warmth of her songtelling, her incredible power of telling stories through lyrics.”
Miller notes that the hotel’s design is meant to celebrate “all sides of Dolly, from rhinestone glamour to the Nashville grit and everything in between.”
Spanning more than 20,000 square feet across the hotel’s third floor will be the Dolly’s Life of Many Colors Museum, an immersive retrospective of Parton’s early life and her meteoric rise to fame. The museum will display her iconic stage outfits across the decades, music awards, framed albums, and reproductions of her custom tour bus and writing room. The museum covers Parton not only as a musical artist and actress (think 1980s hit movies 9 to 5 and Steel Magnolias) but also as a philanthropist who has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to causes ranging from child literacy through her Imagination Library to COVID-19 vaccine research.
“Dolly’s Life Of Many Colors Museum is the largest collection of Dolly’s life story we have ever displayed,” says Rebecca Seaver, executive director of the museum and the Dolly Parton Archives. “She came to Nashville to make her dreams come true, so being able to honor her story of triumph in this way, in this town, is an incredible honor to me and her entire archive team.”
Rates for standard rooms at SongTeller Hotel start at $403 per night.
