List of museums in the Louisville metropolitan area facts for kids

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

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

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

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
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

Spalding Hall in Bardstown, which houses both the Bardstown Historical Museum and the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History

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)

More regional historical collections can be found at the Louisville Free Public Library and the University of Louisville.

Front facade of the Frazier History Museum

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 History Museum, features war weaponry and related historical artifacts, especially focusing on British and U.S. conflicts
John Hay Center
Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, showcases the history of the Louisville Slugger 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)

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