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Bluegrass Heritage Museum, Winchester, KY

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Bluegrass Heritage Museum

A local history museum in Winchester, Kentucky, showing the story of the Bluegrass region of Central Kentucky from early Native American times to the present.

South Main Street, Winchester, KY · Winchester, KY

About Bluegrass Heritage Museum

The Bluegrass Heritage Museum in Winchester collects, preserves, and displays objects that tell the history of Central Kentucky's Bluegrass region. Its exhibits span eras from the Eskippakithiki Indian Village and Daniel Boone's Boonesboro settlement to modern times. Displays are spread across three floors of a Romanesque Revival building on South Main Street, and cover the building's former use as a medical clinic, local farming and military history, and collections of quilts and telephones. The museum also houses the collections of the former Pioneer Telephone Museum, hosts programs on Kentucky's Civil War heritage, and offers a genealogy section and a monthly Second Thursday program series. The building has an elevator, and the museum has rotating exhibits.

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