Museums of Louisville, Kentucky

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

Art

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

General 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)

Regional history

:"See also: History of Louisville, Kentucky and History of Kentucky"
*Bullitt County History Museum [http://www.bullittcounty.org/history.html] (Shepherdsville)
*Carnegie Center for Art and History [http://www.carnegiecenter.org/] (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
*Historic Locust Grove Visitors Center, which includes a museum
*Historic Middletown Museum [http://www.middletownchamber.com/hstrcmsm.htm]
*Howard Steamboat Museum (Jeffersonville, Indiana)
*Jeffersontown Historical Museum [http://www.jeffersontownky.com/Museum06.html]
*Jim Beam Outpost [http://www.jimbeam.com/beam/v5/outpost/outpost_ky.aspx] (Clermont)
*Kentucky Derby Museum
*Kentucky Railway Museum (New Haven)
*Louisville Slugger Museum
*Oldham County History Center [http://www.oldhamcountyhistoricalsociety.org] (La Grange)
*Portland Museum [http://www.goportland.org]
*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.

Other subjects

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