List of museums in Louisville, Kentucky

This is a list of museums, galleries and interpretive centers in the Louisville, Kentucky area.

Contents 1 Art 2 Regional history 3 U.S. and world history 4 Other subjects 5 See also 6 References

Art

• Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
• Louisville Glassworks
• Speed Art Museum

Regional history

See also: History of Louisville, Kentucky and History of Kentucky

• Bullitt County History Museum ^[1] (Shepherdsville)
• Carnegie Center for Art & History (New Albany, Indiana)
• Corydon Capitol State Historic Site (Corydon, Indiana)
• Falls of the Ohio State Park interpretive center, a museum covering the natural history related to findings in the nearby exposed Devonian fossil beds as well as the human history of the Louisville area.
• The Filson Historical Society — features a museum and extensive historical collections
• Henry County History Center & Museum (New Castle)
• Historic Locust Grove Visitors Center, which includes a museum
• Historic Middletown Museum ^[2]
• Howard Steamboat Museum (Jeffersonville, Indiana)
• Jeffersontown Historical Museum ^[3]
• Jim Beam Outpost ^[4] (Clermont)
• Kentucky Derby Museum
• Kentucky Railway Museum (New Haven)
• Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory
• My Old Kentucky Home State Park (Bardstown)
• Oldham County History Center ^[5] (La Grange)
• Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey (Bardstown)
• Portland Museum
• Riverside, The Farnsley-Moremen Landing Visitors Center, which includes a museum
• Thomas Edison House
• Whitney Young Birthplace and Museum

More regional historical collections can be found at the Louisville Free Public Library and the University of Louisville.

U.S. and world history

• Callahan Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind
• Civil War Museum (Bardstown), including the Civil War Museum of the Western Theater, Pioneer Village, Women's Civil War Museum, War Memorial of Mid America and the Wildlife Museum
• Frazier International History Museum — features war weaponry and related historical artifacts, especially focusing on British and U.S. conflicts
• Joseph A. Callaway Archaeological Museum at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
• John Hay Center
• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution — features a historical museum and a genealogical collection
• Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor (Fort Knox)

Other subjects

• Louisville Museum Plaza (future)
• Louisville Science Center — hands-on science museum featuring an IMAX theater
• Muhammad Ali Center
• Thomas Merton Center

See also

• List of attractions and events in Louisville, Kentucky

References