Louisville museums events

The Art of Selling with Saddlebreds: The Show Horse in Vintage Advertising

Thursday, Aug 1 9:00a

The American Saddlebred Museum is hosting The Art of Selling with Saddlebreds: The Show Horse in Vintage Advertising from February 15, 2013 to January 31, 2014. For information: 859-259-2746 or www...

Mathers Museum of World Cultures Exhibit--In the Kitchen Around the World

Saturday, Jun 22 1:00p

Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Bloomington

This exhibit presents objects used in preparing food and food service from different areas of the world...

Mathers Museum/Glenn Black Laboratory Exhibit--Picturing Archaeology

Saturday, Jun 22 1:00p

Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Bloomington

Described in their words and illustrated by their images, the research and fieldwork of 13 Indiana University archaeologists is presented in Picturing Archaeology at the Mathers Museum of World Cul...

Mystery Train

Saturday, Jun 22 2:00p

Bluegrass Railroad Museum, Versailles

Help solve a murder mystery play performed on board the moving train

Equine Art, Antique and Rare Book Consignment Auction

Saturday, Jul 13 9:00a

Kentucky Horse Park, Lexington

The Kentucky Horse Park is hosting the Equine Art, Antique and Rare Book Consignment Auction in the American Saddlebred Museum on July 13, 2013...

Mathers Museum of World Cultures Exhibit--Treasures of the Mathers Museum

Saturday, Jun 22 1:00p

Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Bloomington

Decades of collecting and curating will be featured in this exhibit, presented in conjunction with the institution’s 50th anniversary. Museum hours are Tuesday - Friday 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m...

Singin on the Railroad

Saturday, Sep 28 2:00p

Bluegrass Railroad Museum, Versailles

Barbershop and Gospel quartets sing as the train rolls along.

Rembrandt, Rubens, Gainsborough and The Golden Age of Painting in Europe

Sunday, Jun 30 12:00p

The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Lexington

The treasures on loan from the Speed Art Museum include works by artists from The Netherlands, Flanders, France, Italy, Germany, and England.

Halloween Haunted Train Ride

Friday, Oct 18 8:00p

Bluegrass Railroad Museum, Versailles

Watch for Ghosts and Goblins on the train. Wear your Halloween Costume.

Ronald McDonald Train Ride

Saturday, Jul 6 2:00p

Bluegrass Railroad Museum, Versailles

Ride the train with Ronald and Clown around.

Mythic Creatures

Thursday, Jun 20 9:00a

Frazier History Museum, Louisville

For thousands of years, humans everywhere—sometimes inspired by living animals or even fossils—have brought mythic creatures to life in stories, songs and artwork...

Mathers Museum of World Cultures Exhibit--The Day in Its Color: A Hoosier Photographer's Journey

Saturday, Jun 22 1:00p

Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Bloomington

This exhibit presents a survey of Charles Cushman's extraordinary work, an archive of photographs that is the largest known body of early color photographs by a single photographer, 14,500 in all, ...