Visitor's Experience

The International Storytelling Center and Gift Shop hours:
10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday

The International Storytelling Center is located across the street from the Courthouse at 100 W. Main Street in downtown Jonesborough. Download a map of Jonesborough with the Center location and parking.
(Map provided courtesy of George Moate.)

The Center complex, located in historic Jonesborough, Tennessee, is the only facility anywhere in the world devoted exclusively to the power of storytelling and its creative applications. The Center includes a 200-year-old country inn, a new 14,000-square-foot education building, and a surrounding three-acre park and offers the following amenities:

• A welcome and information area for visitors,
• A retail shop of storytelling books, recordings, and gifts,
• Exhibits about storytelling and the center's work,
• Live daily storytelling from May through October.

The Storytelling Center Gift Shop
Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 5 p.m.

The International Storytelling Center Gift Shop, located in the heart of historic Jonesborough, offers a unique selection of storytelling books, journals, tapes, and CDs. Puppets and children's stories adorn the shop in myriad displays.

Come by and check outour new storytelling board game, Pitch! A Story and our Jonesborough children's book, Everyone Has a Story to Tell.

Don't forget to pick up a keepsake of your trip to the National Storytelling Festival from our line of souvenir items!