List of museums in Louisville, Kentucky

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

Art

A giant baseball bat adorns the outside of Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory in downtown Louisville.

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

Regional history

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

Entrance to the Louisville Science Center

• 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

Front facade of the Frazier International History Museum

• 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

1. ^ "Bullitt County History Museum". Archived from the original on 2007-10-11. http://web.archive.org/web/20071011050406/http://www.bullittcounty.org/history.html. 
2. ^ "Middletown Museum". Archived from the original on 2007-10-11. http://web.archive.org/web/20071011031106/http://middletownchamber.com/hstrcmsm.htm. 
3. ^ Jeffersontown Historical Museum
4. ^ Jim Beam Outpost
5. ^ Oldham County History Center