This is a list of museums, galleries and interpretive centers in the

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Art

* 21c Museum Hotel * Carnegie Center for Art & History (

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) * KMAC Museum * Speed Art Museum

Regional history

* Falls of the Ohio State Park interpretive center, a museum covering the

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related to findings in the nearby exposed

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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 * Frazier History Museum * Historic Locust Grove Visitors Center, which includes a museum * Howard Steamboat Museum (

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) * Kentucky Derby Museum * Kentucky Railway Museum (

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) * 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 The Oscar Getz Museum of Bourbon History is a museum in Bardstown, Kentucky, that chronicles the history of American whiskey from Colonial days through the 1960s. Located in Spalding Hall, built in 1826 and registered with the National Historic R ...

( Bardstown) * Stitzel-Weller Distillery ( Shively)

Cities

Bardstown Historical Museum The Bardstown Historical Museum is a museum of local history in Bardstown, Kentucky, USA, that is located in Spalding Hall, along with the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History. The exhibits at Bardstown Historical Museum include Native Americ ...

( Bardstown) * Corydon Capitol State Historic Site (

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) * Historic Middletown Museum * Jeffersontown Historical Museum ( Jeffersontown)

Counties

* The Bullitt County History Museum ( Shepherdsville) * Clark County Museum (

) * 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

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U.S. and world history

* Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind * Civil War Museum ( Bardstown), including the

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Museum of the Western Theater, Pioneer Village, Women's Civil War Museum, War Memorial of Mid America and the Wildlife Museum * John Hay Center * Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, showcases the history of the ''

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'' 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 Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Elizabethtown. It is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository (also known as Fort Knox), which is used to house a larg ...

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Other subjects

* Kentucky Science Center, hands-on science museum featuring a four-story digital theater * Louisville WaterWorks Museum, located at the Louisville Water Tower *

Muhammad Ali Center The Muhammad Ali Center is a non-profit museum and cultural center dedicated to boxer Muhammad Ali in Louisville, Kentucky. Ali, a native of Louisville, and his wife Lonnie Ali founded the museum in 2005. The six-story, museum is located in t ...

* Schimpff's Candy Museum ( Jeffersonville) * Thomas Merton Center

References

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