Reviews of Kentucky History Center & Museums (Museum)

Doug Caldwell

Our visit started off just right with free parking across the street. Admission covered this building and the state military history museum up the hill a few block away. Get there in time for a tour of the Old State Capitol building for the history of Frankfort and KY. The 200 yr history of the state will take at least 1 1/2 hrs to get it all in.

Chase Johnson

It is always a fantastic place to go! Even young and the old alike are all welcome to come attend this wonderful history of our state. I sure hope you can join one dayM for you will not be disappointed! Please check this place out it’s definitely a must thing to do here in town!

Richard Powell

The best historical society in Frankfort Kentucky. Great helpful local staff. The traveling exhibition are outstanding presentations. I look forward to seeing more experiences this year.

James Gaines

Very interesting place to learn about Kentucky's history.

Audrey Hargis

Great place. Very rich with history

Chris Smith

this place is really cool if you live in Kentucky it's a must see

Marty Moore

Attended an event Friday. Nice venue!

Harvey Roscoe

Nice place very informative and interesting

Jennifer Goss

An amazing museum with a great educational program!

Karma Smith

We loved it. So much information. So well laid out. The scavenger hunt was fun!

Tina West

Delightfully educational! Interesting enough for my 7 year old with ADHD to be engaged for well over an hour!

Kelly Crowder

Really neat place to learn about the history of Kentucky. I may have enjoyed it more than our school group.

Sandra Stall

Love it

Mark Hulette

The Military Museum is a great walk through Kentucky's past and celebrates the men and women who served to gain and hold the freedoms we enjoy today. The Chinn exhibit is a masterful display of firearms from all over the world and the volunteers obviously love to share the lore of Kentucky history. We also visited the Kentucky History Center which houses a really cool interactive walk through Kentucky's history with examples and artifacts from prehistoric to modern day. Well worth the small admission.

Stephen Buck

There to run the KY History Half Marathon. Now we're planning to come back and see the museum. We just got a peek, but loved what we saw. The staff were very helpful and seemed extremely knowledgeable.

Adam Caudell

Great experience and we all had a good time.

Nathan Brown

Great museum and a beautiful space

K C

Had a great visit and learned a bunch about KY history. A worthwhile trip.

W. Judd Strickley

For anyone interested in a juvenile education of Kentucky or to take your children to learn about the state ... great!!!

Sam Smith

You want to know about Kentucky, this the place.

Szilard Kiss

We went there to get our tickets for the old capitol tour, amazing. Meanwhile we used the time to ejoy that museum,great

jenandjamie3 .

Friendly and helpful staff. Museum was bigger than I expected. I would definitely recommend this place. There's a little area for little kids to play and they also have a gift shop.

Travis D

Went here for a PD so didn't your or anything but the building is beautful and will probably visit again. Loved the signage outside about always wanting to come back home to Kentucky.

Cisco Morales

It's a very nice place with the history of Kentucky. We were there for the Memorial of Officers of Kentucky who passed away while working and other causes of death. Our son died on the way to work last year.It was very nice.

Tanner Petrie

The museum was entertaining and educational, though some of the mannequins and animatronics were a bit spooky. Great, expansive genealogical/historical library.

Elaine Campbell

very helpful staff, lots to learn and see

Julia Darlington

Fantastic sights. Beautiful place. Awful tour guide. He could NOT stay focused on the task or topic. Took waaaayyy too long. It's bad when the older couple who have seen the world and taken many tours have to leave the tour because the guide is taking toooo long.

Billy Warfield

Awesome place

Ira Sturdivant

Really enjoyed the time learning here

Donald Smith

Wonderful place

Stephanie Banks

This is a very nice museum. Everyone should take a tour at least once a year. The staff are very nice.

Robin Johnson

Beautiful building with exhibits and a library containing a variety of books and other documents preserving the history of Kentucky and its residents.

Mahalya Johnson

Great place for learning

Dontisha James

Learned a lot about history it was such a blessing and got to look up my grandfathers serving in the army

Keith Cook

Great for history of kentucky. You would be surprised who you might see ,,

Kevin D

Nice place to visit. Small museum. Took less than an hour to go through.

John Hoffmann

Great place to visit.

Tom Zumwalt

Great genealogical resource

burn after reading

The attendants were very knowledgeable and entertained all our questions

William Riley

Fantastic for research and information.

bridget sperl

Appallingly racist - there is an exhibit that asks people what they would do during the civil war - for example - how would you treat your slaves? Or - what if you were pro union and owned slaves? Do you keep your slaves and not join the union? These questions should not be in any museum. Hard to believe this exhibit is allowed to continue.

Paul Fallis

Nice place for kids.

Brent Coomes

Very neat place

Rhonda Miller

nice venue. pleasant time. helpful staff

Maddie Boyd

Very nice, was there for a banquet and they did a great job.

toni Stamos

A good place to spend the day with the family, do your genealogy, look back at history and check out the gift shop.

Richee Family Adventures

I went with my son's 5th grade class for a field trip. The tour guide for the old capital building was great. She held all the kids attention and had them participating in discussion. It was pretty cool sitting in the rooms where they ran the government of KY back in the day. The floating stair case was really neat and the library was beautiful,.even thought it was smaller than I thought it would be.

Graciela Villanueva

Excelentt expositión.Great learning

Brian Hackett

Wonderful museum, great staff, nice giftshop!

Kayci Schmidt

What an amazing place!

Janie Braid

I actually work at the Kentucky History Center. It's a nice place to be. Nice people. Love the old pictures and artifacts. Very educational and interesting.

Beth Case

Friendly and educational! Not only is the permanent exhibit constantly being updated and refreshed, but there's usually some kind of rotating special exhibit. They also have an awesome genealogical library for research and friendly people to help.

Shanna Osborne

Love

Bob Runyan

Great display of American and Kentucky history through the years.

Tonya Hayre

Very nice since the last time I remember going there on a field trip with my daughter's girl scout troop!

DeAnne norton

We love the history center!! It never gets old to learn our state's history. The changing exhibits and classes are great too.

Cathleen Liebrandt

Very informative displays

David Allen

Called 4 info very helpfull 2 idiot like me! Thank You.

James Gibson

This Kentucky Historical Society museum houses an impressive display of Kentucky history artifacts and information. It covers the period from pioneer days (and even earlier) to the 21st century. The $8 admission price would be a great value for this museum alone, as I see it. But the admission fee also includes a guided tour of the Old State Capitol Building and a self-guided tour of the Kentucky Military History Museum. Both of those buildings are within walking distance of this one. I devoted two or three of hours to a self-guided tour of this museum and still did not see everything. The displays were interesting and educational. I urge visitors to allow at least three or four hours to tour this museum and the others included in the admission charge. The museum closes at 5 p.m. It includes a gift shop. Take time to walk down the hallway where pictures of Kentucky governors and brief biographies of them are displayed. I found the biographical information educational and interesting. I also took the guided tour of the Old State Capitol which takes about an hour and recommend it, too. Just before the 5 p.m. closing time, I then devoted a few minutes to the Kentucky Military History Museum. Although the military weaponry was not as interesting to me (Maybe because I am basically a pacifist.), others might find this two-story display of military weaponry through the years, a few oral histories, and displays related to military medical personnel fascinating. I strongly urge visitors to Frankfort to seek to take time to tour this history museum and the Old State Capitol, maybe even the Military History Museum. I'm glad I got to enjoy visiting all three during my June 27, 2018 visit. And I rate this history center as the best of the three.

Jonathan Brown

Very nice museum that also has some entertainment and performances.

Chris Flaherty

Very well kept building. Interesting to visit and enjoy the history behind its walls.

James Brotherton

Beautiful little town

john poteet

Worth a visit, very nice!

Denise Lewis

Very interesting but a lot of exhibits were broke and half the audio didnt work. Everyone there was very nice and the gift shop was somewhat inexpensive.

Barbara Goodwin

It is a great place to gp.

Bill Jordan

Plenty of genealogical info available. ..polite staff....enjoyable historical furnishings

John Coffey

Although there aren’t very many things to look at inside the main campus you do get access to three different areas, including a guided tour of the old capital building. For $8 you can spend a nice afternoon learning about the perfectly mediocre state of Kentucky, and it’s capital. That’s quite a deal, especially for Kentuckians.

Sherri Racki

Great place to take the kids to learn Kentucky's rich history. Loved it here. It was very interesting and reasonably priced.

Bennie Greer

Great place to see Kentucky history. Self guidedo was just fine.

Brandon T. Wilson

A must visit in Kentucky