Oaklands Mansion is a Italianate antebellum house set on a hill northeast of the town square, now operated as a history museum by the City of Murfreesboro. The house was built in stages between the 1820s and 1860s by the Maney family, one of Murfreesboro's prominent planter families. Its rooms illustrate the life of a prosperous Tennessee household in the decades before the Civil War and the upheaval that followed.
The museum has period furnishings, a reconstructed carriage house, and exhibits on the Civil War experience of Middle Tennessee civilians. Guided tours run through the house and explain the architectural evolution of the building. The grounds include formal gardens and mature trees that shade a pleasant walk. It is a short drive from downtown.