Hatch Show Print

Sandra Sedmak

We did the tour while on vacation-my husband is a graphic designer and was so excited to visit! It is a really great, informative tour about the history of the business. They had crayons and a coloring sheet for our kids and let them go first during the printing part. We all had a great time!

Natalie Koffarnus

Wish I had gotten to take the tour! But had a nice gift shop and window viewing to watch the print making. Definitely worth waking by just for that part. The tours are booked online and only at 4 times a day. The day before there were tickets, but sold out when I looked day of! Really cool place a part of local history.

Chirelle Pearson

I wasn’t sure what to expect when we booked this tour but it was actually pretty cool. Very informational about the prices of printing & everything is very original which I appreciated more after going through the tour. We were able to make our own print as a souvenir. I definitely recommend this tour. Our guide was so great!!

Jason Lin

Tour lasts about 45 minutes. Super friendly and courteous staff! Wish we could have visited the actual print work area. Book your tickets early before they’re all gone! Tour guides Greg and Laura were both super knowledgably and friendly. $20 a person (adult), guided tour lasts about 45 minutes (15 people in our group), but adding some time for the self guided tour before and after the guided part of the tour, planning 1-1.5 hours would be appropriate to fully enjoy this visit. The tour begins in the atrium 5-10 minutes before your scheduled tour time. Your tickets will be scanned and the guide will give a little quick intro and history info about the place. Then the group will be led to the workshop room behind the gift shop and everyone will be seated (based on your group size, the staff will assign your group on where to sit). Then you will be given more info about how they do the print and the colors, and more history about the shop. The workshop room has a loooot of printed posters on the walls and the staff will go over the story for many of them. In the meantime, one guest by one guest, you will get a chance to make a souvenir poster and take it home. They will have some pre-printed color on a poster already, and you will make one last color print to finish it (takes 24 hours to dry), and they will put it into a small brown paper bag for you to take home. The next part of the tour is in the hallway outside of the print work area. The guide will explain the different machines, and things around the shop, and fill in more stories about the history and take questions. I don’t know if it’s because of COVID but we could only see the shop from the outside, and it would be nice if we could get a tour from the inside of the shop to get a closer look at many items. The last stop of the tour is at the gallery right by the building entrance. It’s a small gallery but with a lot of unique prints on display and some can be purchased. Overall, we really enjoyed the tour and learned a lot about the printing technique and their shop history. The hands-on printing experience is a nice touch of the tour and everyone gets a souvenir to take home. 10/10 I would recommend this tour for anyone visiting Nashville!