Kentucky museums

Name: Top 20 Museums in Kentucky
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There are 121museums in Kentucky. Combined, these Kentuckianmuseumsemploy 2,183 people, earn more than $157 million in revenue each year, and have assets of $611 million.

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Types of museums in Kentucky

Nonprofit type	Number	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Museums	121	2,183	$156,993,531	$610,726,721
History museums	60	403	$20,784,433	$130,614,371
Art museums	10	225	$17,785,238	$163,255,769
Natural history and sciences museums	4	12	$994,091	$2,358,027
Children's museums	2	13	$936,199	$615,923
Science and technology museums	2	195	$7,037,571	$12,690,781

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Museums by major Kentucky cities

Metro area	Nonprofits	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Lexington	24	101	$4,406,172	$26,768,219
Louisville	22	589	$41,255,343	$252,130,453
Elizabethtown	8	16	$1,817,769	$3,489,967
Cincinnati, OH	8	916	$65,949,560	$135,041,556
Bowling Green	8	218	$22,953,537	$91,932,731
Huntington, WV	6	0	$1,298,255	$4,695,615
Owensboro	5	41	$5,647,985	$25,104,009
Clarksville, TN	3	8	$3,088,403	$34,959,098

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Job trends for Kentucky museums

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	17
1-10	20
11-25	10
26-100	3
101 to 1,000	6
1,000+	0

Key takeaways for employment stats:

Employment in Kentucky museums is driven by large organizations like Crosswater Canyon, Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, National Corvette Museum (NCM), Speed Art Museum, and The Kentucky Science Center.

Sizes of museums in Kentucky

Revenues per organization	Number of organizations
< $250k	27
$250k to $1M	20
$1M to $5M	8
$5M to $25M	6
$25M to $100M	1
$100M+	0

Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Large organizations like Crosswater Canyon, National Corvette Museum (NCM), Speed Art Museum, Kentucky Derby Museum Corporation, and Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in Kentucky museums.
Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 8.6% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Kentucky museums with more than $100 million account for 0.0% of nonprofit earnings.

Directory of museums in Kentucky

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National Corvette Museum (NCM)

The mission of the National Corvette Museum is to educate worldwide audiences on the evolution of the Corvette -- America's Sports Car -- through collection, preservation, and celebration of its legacy.

Revenue

$20.8m

Assets

$82.1m

Employees

198

EIN

74-2519972

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Kentucky Derby Museum Corporation

Kentucky Derby Museum: Engages, educates, and excites on the history and tradition of the Kentucky Derby and thoroughbred racing.

Revenue

$9.6m

Assets

$35.2m

Employees

135

EIN

31-1023459

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill

To preserve and maintain the site of the shaker community which once existed here, to protect its buildings, its countryside and the records and articles pertaining to its builders.

Revenue

$7.6m

Assets

$22.0m

Employees

245

EIN

61-0592561

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Speed Art Museum

The Speed Art Museum, originally known as the J. B. Speed Memorial Museum, is Kentucky's oldest and largest art museum. It was founded in 1925 by Hattie Bishop Speed as a memorial to her husband, James Breckinridge Speed.

Revenue

$13.1m

Assets

$131.4m

Employees

171

EIN

61-0444823

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Muhammad Ali Center

To preserve and share the legacy and ideals of Muhammad Ali, to promote respect, hope, and understanding, and to inspire adults and children everywhere to be as great as they can be.

Revenue

$5.5m

Assets

$31.3m

Employees

EIN

61-1323046

IRS type

501(c)(3)

The Kentucky Science Center

We exude a do Science philosophy. Our message is simple: play, tinker, collaboratee, test, experiment, goof up, and try again. We don't care if you get The right answers - The first time or ever.

Revenue

$6.4m

Assets

$8.2m

Employees

153

EIN

31-1005850

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Crosswater Canyon

Crosswater Canyon is a museum in Petersburg, KY whose mission is: To operate for the benefit of and to support the mission and purposes of Answers in Gensis.

Revenue

$64.2m

Assets

$127.4m

Employees

905

EIN

27-4026852

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Fort Campbell Historical Foundation

Fort Campbell Historical Foundation supports troops, preserves their legacy, promotes museum fundraising and construction; programs support soldiers and families.

Revenue

$2.9m

Assets

$32.5m

Employees

EIN

62-1516963

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Frazier History Museum

The Frazier History Museum is a museum in Louisville, Kentucky's "Museum Row" in the West Main District of downtown. It provides an unforgettable journey through more than 1,000 years of history with live performances every day.

Revenue

$2.6m

Assets

$36.0m

Employees

EIN

61-1378343

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Muse

Bluegrass museum in KY provides tours, education programs & hosts annual ROMP festival featuring international acts with free tickets for those in need.

Revenue

$3.2m

Assets

$9.6m

Employees

EIN

61-1229037

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Portland Museum

Portland Museum is an educational resource that collects, preserves, exhibits, interprets, and enhances the culture and heritage of Portland, a neighborhood in louisville, Kentucky that was once a thriving independent town.at Portland Museum, we interpret....

Revenue

$1.8m

Assets

$3.1m

Employees

EIN

23-7422794

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Highlands Museum and Discovery Center

Highlands Museum and Discovery Center preserves and displays regional history, offering educational information through exhibits and traveling displays.

Revenue

$1.2m

Assets

$4.0m

Employees

EIN

31-1061542

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Henry Clay Memorial Foundation

Preserves The Henry Clay Estate, operates it as a museum and educational center for 19th century history, and honors Henry Clay.

Revenue

$844.4k

Assets

$5.5m

Employees

EIN

61-0461732

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Kmac Museum (KMAC)

The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft is a nonprofit organization founded in 1981 to continue the art and craft heritage of Kentucky through the support and education of craft artists and education of the public.

Revenue

$1.5m

Assets

$6.1m

Employees

EIN

61-0985312

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Wave Foundation

Wave Foundation educates about aquatic life and conservation, recruits volunteers for Newport Aquarium, and funds projects nationally/internationally. Located in Newport, KY.

Revenue

$981.6k

Assets

$2.6m

Employees

EIN

61-1325992

IRS type

501(c)(3)

the National Quilt Museum

To advance the art of today's quilters by bringing it to new and expanding audiences worldwide. We serve the quilting community by providing in-facility and traveling exhibits, youth and adult educational programs, and advocacy efforts.

Revenue

$983.8k

Assets

$5.9m

Employees

EIN

61-1193387

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Lexington Children's Museum

Explorium of Lexington inspires learning and curiosity with hands-on programs for 20,000+ visitors annually and positively impacts another 2,500 children.

Revenue

$911.0k

Assets

$610.9k

Employees

EIN

61-1183278

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Kentucky Railway Museum

The Kentucky Railway Museum, now located in New Haven, Kentucky, United States, is a non-profit railroad museum dedicated to educating the public regarding the history and heritage of Kentucky's railroads and the people who built them.

Revenue

$1.4m

Assets

$1.9m

Employees

EIN

61-6031095

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Historic Museum and Depot

Preserves railroad history through exhibits, programming and collection of authentic passenger cars, engines and transportation artifacts in Bowling Green, KY.

Revenue

$983.1k

Assets

$1.4m

Employees

EIN

37-1430589

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Owensboro Museum of Fine Art Foundation

Owensboro Museum of Fine Art Foundation, Inc. is organized exclusively for the purpose of perpetuating growth and development of the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Inc., the preservation and enhancement of the Museum's permanent collections and providing f....

Revenue

$1.4m

Assets

$7.2m

Employees

EIN

61-1297343

IRS type

501(c)(3)

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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.

This category corresponds to the "A50: Museums" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.

Kentucky museums

Types of museums in Kentucky

Museums by major Kentucky cities

Job trends for Kentucky museums

Sizes of museums in Kentucky

Directory of museums in Kentucky

National Corvette Museum (NCM)

Kentucky Derby Museum Corporation

Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill

Speed Art Museum

Muhammad Ali Center

The Kentucky Science Center

Crosswater Canyon

Fort Campbell Historical Foundation

Frazier History Museum

Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Muse

Portland Museum

Highlands Museum and Discovery Center

Henry Clay Memorial Foundation

Kmac Museum (KMAC)

Wave Foundation

the National Quilt Museum

Lexington Children's Museum

Kentucky Railway Museum

Historic Museum and Depot

Owensboro Museum of Fine Art Foundation

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