Exhibitions
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Andrew Jackson recruited the help of pirates during the Battle of New Orleans-- weeks after a treaty actually ending the War of 1812 had been signed.
Temporary Exhibits
Broadening your world, one exhibit at a time.
To complement our permanent galleries, the Frazier Museum offers an ever-changing selection of engaging temporary exhibits that allow us to present family-friendly content, as well as local history in the larger context of national or world events, and offer a closer look at concepts perhaps given only cursory attention elsewhere in the museum.
We are all about education. Our exhibits promote not only an understanding of the world we live in, but the discovery of new ways of looking at it, new analytical tools. What may seem “just for fun” is an avenue into history for those who may usually think of it as a boring subject.
With this in mind, we began developing our own original temporary exhibits, with “Fontaine Ferry” being the first built entirely in-house. This much-anticipated exhibit opened to the public on May 16, 2009 and explored the story of the amusement park that was such an integral part of Louisville’s history from 1905 to 1969.
Since then, we’ve also produced “WWII: 48 Local Stories That Changed the World,” Pirates: Treasure & Treachery,”"Water Works: 150 Years of Louisville Water Company,” ”The Good. The Bad. The Cuddly.: Toys & the Movies” and “Civil War: My Brother, My Enemy.” Explore all of these previous temporary exhibitions online by clicking on the “Past” link to the left.
Different exhibitions in our annual schedule feature what we call “heavy history,” such as the Civil War, while others are designed to make history approachable. Either way, we strive to entertain, educate and broaden your perspective of our world— past and present.
