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Market Street has a number of art galleries. If you are in Louisville on the first Friday of the month, there is a free gallery hop www.trolleyhop.com around the downtown galleries, including a couple of glass studios. The Speed Art Museum www.speedmuseum.org is a more traditional art museum on the campus of the University of Louisville. 21C Museum Hotel www.21cmuseumhotel.com/overview/default.aspx has several art installations open to the public and is, like all hotels, is open to the public 24 hours a day. There are also a variety of art galleries within walking distance of each other in the Highlands/Bardstown Road area.

For performing arts, there is Actors Theatre www.actorstheatre.org, The Louisville Orchestra www.louisvilleorchestra.org, The Louisville Ballet www.louisvilleballet.org, The Kentucky Opera www.kyopera.org, and The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts ww2.kentuckycenter.org.

• Louisville Slugger Museum, (on Main street in downtown), www.sluggermuseum.org.
• Louisville Science Center, (on Main street in downtown), www.louisvillescience.org.
• Frazier Historical Arms Museum, (on Main street in downtown), www.frazierarmsmuseum.org.
• Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, (on Main street in downtown), www.kentuckyarts.org.
• Kentucky Derby Museum, (south of downtown next to Churchill Downs), www.derbymuseum.org.
• Churchill Downs, www.churchilldowns.com.

If you have a car, definitely take River Road out of downtown, past Zorn Avenue into the River Road Historic District. Beautiful country estates on the bluffs overlooking the Ohio River are amazing to see, along with all the fields that stretch along the river and great vistas of all the boats going by. The district stops when River Road ends at US Highway 42.