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Below are several links that we feel may be helpful to our visitors. If you would like your link to be featured on our site, please e-mail us.

Getting Here

Bardstown Tourism

Bardstown Chamber of Commerce

Historical Sites

A View of America

Bardstown-Nelson County Historical Museum

Battle of Richmond Visitors Center

Bishop Flaget Log House & St. Thomas Church

Bryan S. Bush Books

Civil War Museum Wikipedia Page

Historic Wickland (Bardstown)

Keene’s Depot

Kentucky Civil War Heritage Trail

Kentucky State Parks

Lincoln Birthplace National Park

Lincoln Museum (Hodgenville)

My Old Kentucky Dinner Train

My Old Kentucky Home

Old Talbott Tavern

Perryville Battlefield

Bourbon & Distilleries

1792 Bourbon (formerly Barton Brands)

Four Roses Distillery

Heaven Hill Distillery

Jim Beam Distillery

Kentucky Bourbon Festival

Kentucky Bourbon Trail

Makers Mark Distillery

Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History

Willet Distillery

Area Attractions

Abbey of Gesthemani

Around the Town Carriage

Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest

Ky Railway Museum

Stephen Foster – The Musical

Hotels & Motels

Hampton Inn

Jailer’s Inn Bed & Breakfast

Parkview Motel & Kurtz Restaurant

General Nelson Inn

Contact Us

310 E. Broadway, Bardstown, KY 40004

Email Us

(502) 349-0291

*Old Bardstown Village / Civil War Museum is a 501C Nonprofit Corporation chartered educational facility.

                

Hours

2024 MUSEUM HOURS

March 1 – October 27
Open Every Day 10AM – 5PM

November 1 – December 1
Open Weekends Only 
10AM – 5PM

CLOSED for the winter season
December 2 – Feb. 28, 2025 

Special tours arranged for groups of 20 or more year-round. Call (502) 349-0291

Board of Directors

John S. Kelley
Steve Munson
William Sanders
Miles Spalding
Frank Welch
Jessica Johnson
Lisa Thomas
Frank Manion
Jerry Janes
Mike Thomas                   Linda McCloskey

Area Resources

We have lots of links that will be helpful to our visitors. View Links >

Donate Artifacts

We are grateful for gifts and loans of artifacts. If you have an item you think we would be interested in, please call the Museum at (502) 349-0291 or email us. We are a nonprofit 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. Your donations may be a tax deduction to you!

Volunteers Needed

If you would like to be involved with a dynamic and growing organization and have time to help at our Museums, please call us at (502) 349-0291 or send us a message.
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