List of museums in the Louisville metropolitan area

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) KMAC Museum Speed Art Museum

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 Frazier History Museum 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) Stitzel-Weller Distillery (Shively)

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) Clark County Museum (Jeffersonville, Indiana) 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

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 John Hay Center Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, showcases the history of the Louisville Slugger and baseball in general General George Patton Museum of Leadership (Fort Knox) SAR Education Center and Museum (opening in 2027), features a historical museum, education center, library, and a genealogical collection by the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

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 Schimpff's Candy Museum (Jeffersonville) Thomas Merton Center

See also

List of attractions and events in the Louisville metropolitan area

References