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Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to ...
is a list of
museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
s, defined for this context as institutions (including
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s, government entities, and private
business Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or Trade, buying and selling Product (business), products (such as goods and Service (economics), services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for pr ...
es) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e.,
virtual museum A virtual museum is a digital entity that draws on the characteristics of a museum, in order to complement, enhance, or augment the museum experience through personalization, interactivity, and richness of content. Virtual museums can perform as t ...
s) are not included.


Museums


Defunct museums

* Charles Jackson Circus Museum, Hopkinsville, collections now at the Pennyroyal Area Museum * Alben W. Barkley Museum, Paducah * Barren River Imaginative Museum of Science, Bowling Green, closed in 2012 * Floyd Collins Museum, Cave City, closed in 2013 * Morris Toy Museum, Carrsville * Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia, Elizabethtown, closed in 2012Schmidt Museum
accessed 10/17/2012


See also

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Aquaria in Kentucky Aquaria is the plural of aquarium. Aquaria may also refer to: * Aquaria KLCC, an oceanarium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia * ''Aquaria'' (video game), released in 2007 * Aquaria (drag queen) Giovanni L. Palandrani (born February 12, 1996), better ...
(category) *
Nature Centers in Kentucky Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are p ...


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Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to ...
Museums A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
Museums A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...