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

Art



  • 21c Museum Hotel
  • Carnegie Center for Art & History (New Albany, Indiana)
  • Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
  • Speed Art Museum, currently closed for rebuilding; planned reopening in 2016

Regional history



  • 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, currently undergoing major expansion
  • Historic Locust Grove Visitors Center, which includes a museum
  • Howard Steamboat Museum (Jeffersonville, Indiana)
  • Kentucky Derby Museum
  • Kentucky Railway Museum (New Haven)
  • Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory
  • My Old Kentucky Home State Park (Bardstown)
  • Portland Museum
  • Riverside, The Farnsley-Moremen Landing Visitors Center, which includes a museum
  • Thomas Edison House
  • Whitney Young Birthplace and Museum

Bourbon

  • Evan Williams Bourbon Experience, located on Louisville's Whiskey Row, featuring bourbon history and tastings, and interprets Louisville's wharf history in the 1790s
  • Heaven Hill Distilleries Bourbon Heritage Center (Bardstown)
  • Jim Beam American Stillhouse (Clermont)
  • Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History (Bardstown)

Cities

  • Bardstown Historical Museum (Bardstown)
  • Corydon Capitol State Historic Site (Corydon, Indiana)
  • Historic Middletown Museum
  • Jeffersontown Historical Museum (Jeffersontown)

Counties

  • The Bullitt County History Museum (Shepherdsville)
  • Henry County Historical Society (New Castle)
  • Oldham County History Center (La Grange)

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

U.S. and world history


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  • 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 History Museum, features war weaponry and related historical artifacts, especially focusing on British and U.S. conflicts
  • John Hay Center
  • Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, showcases the history of the Louisville Slugger and baseball in general
  • National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, features a historical museum and a genealogical collection
  • General George Patton Museum of Leadership (Fort Knox)

Other subjects



  • Kentucky Science Center, hands-on science museum featuring an IMAX theater
  • Louisville WaterWorks Museum, located at the Louisville Water Tower
  • Muhammad Ali Center
  • Schimpff's Candy Museum (Jeffersonville)
  • Thomas Merton Center

See also



  • List of attractions and events in the Louisville metropolitan area

References





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