New Johnny Cash Museum Opening Soon in Nashville [PHOTOS]

Family and friends of country music legend Johnny Cash gathered Wednesday to announce the new museum in Nashville honoring the "Man in Black".

Cash’s son John Carter Cash, brother Tommy and granddaughter Chelsea were also on hand for the news conference.

The grand opening date was not announced yet for the 18,000 square foot building that will include permanent exhibits, a multipurpose room and a performance stage with seating.

Bill Miller, a longtime collector of Cash memorabilia, will run the museum, which will feature items donated by the family and items from the now-closed Johnny Cash Museum in Henderson, Tenn. “This is the realization of a long-term dream,” he said, according to the Tennessean.

“He’s been an incredible supporter of my dad and one of the largest collectors of memorabilia,” Cash’s daughter Roseanne Cash told Guitar World earlier this month. “If anybody has the whole structure to put up a museum, he does.  So I have a lot of trust in him and I think it’s great at this point. I think he’ll do something with dignity and class that’s historically important, not some kitschy thing. I’m very interested in seeing what he does.”

The museum will be located within a block of the Country Music Hall of Fame, just off Broadway St. on Third Ave. Admission will be $13. The cost of building the museum is approximately $7 million.

WASHINGTON DC - APRIL 22, 2002:
U.S. President George W. Bush (L) presents singer/songwriter Johnny Cash with the National Medal of Arts during the National Endowment for the Arts National Medal of Arts Awards ceremony April 22, 2002 in Washington, DC. Johnny Cash died September 12, 2003 in a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee while being treated for a stomach complaint. He was 71. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)