The museum's first phase will be created in an existing building located in historic Old Town Winchester. Celebrating Patsy Cline plans to interpret Patsy Cline's passionate and poignant life-story through experiential exhibits. These exhibits feature a chronological walkway through Patsy's life; complete with artifacts, photo murals and montages representing the different people, places and events of Patsy's life. Accompanying the different episodes of her life story, the museum will feature the images, related sounds and moving pictures of her era, creating a soundscape and visual tapestry of her life and singing career.While presenting Patsy's musical legacy to worldwide audiences during this first phase of the museum, Celebrating Patsy Cline will continue to actively collect and preserve her music, memories and memorabilia for future generations in a larger, permanent museum.Celebrating Patsy Cline has embarked on a fundraising campaign - the largest in its history - to create aliving tribute to Patsy Cline. Physically and conceptually Celebrating Patsy Cline will cultivate the museum over the next several years, creating a new kind of museum for worldwide Patsy Cline audiences, one that unites community and artistic interests in fresh, compelling ways and enhances an appreciation of Patsy's life, legacy and music through the visual arts, music and unique performances.

These images for the museum committee show the potential for a future performance center in honor of Patsy Cline. The goals were to come up with ideas for a large facility on the interstate, an urban museum in downtown Winchester, a traveling exhibit, and virtual site on the Internet.These images were created in December of 1999 and in collaborationwith Ralph Applebaum Associates, Inc. in early 2007, not as a final design, but for possible fundraising and awareness. The Design Committee brainstormed for imagery and came up with a list of things which could add flavor to the process: diners with private booths, drive-ins open to the country sky, art deco which reflects movement as seen in the architecture of trains and boats, and the color, fun and technological flair of jukeboxes.