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
 * 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)

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