Swift pledges $4M to country music museum

Swift pledges $4M to museumSinger-songwriter Taylor Swift, 22, has pledged $4 million to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tenn., The Associated Press reports. The largest gift ever given to the museum by an artist and the second-highest by an individual, the donation will fund the Taylor Swift Education Center, scheduled to open in 2014. Museum director Kyle Young said the gift "will allow us to do what we do better, serve more people, develop new programs and I'm happy to say that as we talked through this opportunity with Taylor, she very much wants to be involved in an advisory capacity in what we do."