Taylor Swift Opens Education Center at Country Music Hall of Fame

Class is now in session at the Taylor Swift Education Center at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. The pop star cut the ribbon on her new namesake facility in Nashville during a ceremony on Saturday morning, showing off the museum’s expansion to reporters and local high school students, the Associated Press reports.

Swift donated $4 million to the Hall of Fame to endow the education center, which will include three classrooms, a hands-on instrument room and a children’s exhibit gallery for interactive exhibits, all spread over two floors. According to Swift’s website, her donation to the center stands as the largest individual artist gift ever donated to the Country Music Hall of Fame, where the singer signed her record contract as a teenager.

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Although Swift has long since crossed over, her country music roots reach deep and the day after opening the new education center, she was set to collect a record-setting sixth songwriter-artist of the year award from the Nashville Songwriters Association International.

Swift may be returning to Nashville to take part in some educational programs at the center. “We’ve been talking about different programs I can be involved in,” she said. “I hate to call it a lecture because that sounds like I’m yelling at people, but we could do a Q&A talking to students here and a songwriters discussion would be really fun to have at some point.”