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The World's Greatest Studio Tour will celebrate its 27th year. Bowling Green and area artists invite you into their studios to view their art, discuss their processes, and watch demonstrations during this free event!

Hours: 

Saturday, November 4 from 10 am to 5pm

Sunday November 5, 2023 from 1pm to 5pm

The annual World’s Greatest Studio Tour is designed to allow the public to meet our area’s leading artists, talk with them one-on-one, and see exciting new works of art. It is also an opportunity to do holiday shopping and find unique, one of a kind gifts of original art.

This year, there are more than ten stops and 40 artists on the tour. Studios are located throughout the Bowling Green and Warren County area. This year, the Kentucky Museum is hosting members of Artworks, a local arts organization, who will have work on display and for sale throughout the building, along with metalworking demonstrations by the Kentucky Forge Council. A map of studio locations is available online:  worldsgreateststudiotour.com. All art media are featured on the tour including painting, metalwork, jewelry, fiber, woodwork, pottery, and more!

The Museum will also have a booth of products related to their collections, with all proceeds benefitting their Collections Conservation fund. Information regarding Museum memberships and the Adopt-an-Artifact program will also be available. 

GIVEAWAY: Sign up for the Museum's monthly e-newsletter and be entered to win a $100 gift card to Blick Art Materials!

Invite friends, plan a route and see what area artists have to show this year! The World’s Greatest Studio Tour:  It only happens once a year and it only happens here!

The Museum will be open to the public with free admission for those wishing to see current exhibitions.

More information here.

The World's Greatest Studio Tour will celebrate its 27th year. Bowling Green and area artists invite you into their studios to view their art, discuss their processes, and watch demonstrations during this free event!

Hours: 

Saturday, November 4 from 10 am to 5pm

Sunday November 5, 2023 from 1pm to 5pm

The annual World’s Greatest Studio Tour is designed to allow the public to meet our area’s leading artists, talk with them one-on-one, and see exciting new works of art. It is also an opportunity to do holiday shopping and find unique, one of a kind gifts of original art.

This year, there are more than ten stops and 40 artists on the tour. Studios are located throughout the Bowling Green and Warren County area. This year, the Kentucky Museum is hosting members of Artworks, a local arts organization, who will have work on display and for sale throughout the building, along with metalworking demonstrations by the Kentucky Forge Council. A map of studio locations is available online:  worldsgreateststudiotour.com. All art media are featured on the tour including painting, metalwork, jewelry, fiber, woodwork, pottery, and more!

The Museum will also have a booth of products related to their collections, with all proceeds benefitting their Collections Conservation fund. Information regarding Museum memberships and the Adopt-an-Artifact program will also be available. 

GIVEAWAY: Sign up for the Museum's monthly e-newsletter and be entered to win a $100 gift card to Blick Art Materials!

Invite friends, plan a route and see what area artists have to show this year! The World’s Greatest Studio Tour:  It only happens once a year and it only happens here!

The Museum will be open to the public with free admission for those wishing to see current exhibitions.

More information here.

Panel discussion with WKU historians Dr. David Lee, University Historian; Dr. Kate Brown, Associate Professor, History; Dr. Jennifer Hanley, Associate Professor History; and Dr. Marko Dumančić, Director, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning. The past has always been subject to interpretation discussion and reinterpretation. However, for many, history was often presented to students as a singular agreed upon narrative. Today, most historians agree that history should be studied from a multi-perspective approach. Join panelists in an exploration of how history has been, is currently, and might be, taught in the future.

CANCELLED

Typically reserved for WKU classes, our Close Study of Collections sessions offer a deep dive into the stories of Kentuckians held within the Kentucky Museum. Guests get up-close-and-personal with artifacts, hearing from Collections Curator/Registrar Sandy Staebell about each artifacts' unique journey to the Museum and how it reveals the lives of individual Kentuckians.

For "Big Red, White, and Blue," we invite up to 30 WKU alumni to attend a special Close Study of World War I/II Collections - hearing stories of WKU's own brave veterans and seeing, up close, the objects and ephemera that memorialize their service and evidence Kentuckians' participation in the World Wars. 

Learn more here.