21c Museum Hotel Louisville

Name: 21c Museum Hotel Louisville
Address: 700 West Main Street, Louisville, KY, 40202, US
Telephone: +15022176300
Price range: $$$
Rating: 4.8

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A multi venue contemporary art museum, boutique hotel and a chef driven restaurant - named the 2014 Global Vision Award Winner by Travel + Leisure Magazine
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Nestled in downtown Louisville on historic West Main Street, along Museum Row, 21c Museum Hotel is a multi-venue contemporary art museum, an award-winning 91-room boutique hotel, and home to acclaimed Proof on Main restaurant, led by executive chef Mike Wajda. Stay with us and the iconic Red Penguin.

11/01/2026

Myrlande Constant’s “GUEDE (Baron)” features contemporary and historical references, including the spirits of fertility and the dead, altars and crosses, mythical and hybrid beings, rendered in textile and glass beads through the artist’s innovative transformation of traditional drapo, a practice historically dominated by men. Trained as a wedding dressmaker, the artist applies the French embroidery technique of tambour to her large-scale, intricate works, drawing the imagery on one side while the beading and embroidery are applied on the other, unseen until completion.

This piece is a haunting celebration of Haitian Vodou traditions, craftsmanship, and the mysteries of life and death. 🕯️

🖼️ Myrlande Constant
“GUEDE (Baron)”, 2020
Sequins, glass beads, and silk tassels on cotton

10/29/2026

Happy Bat Week! Did you know that there are over 1,400 different species of bats? That’s more than twenty percent of the mammalian species worldwide. Bats play a critical role in ecosystem health and biodiversity.

In celebration of these incredible creatures of the night, we’re hosting another Wildlands Social Club - October 2026 where we’ll explore bat science, art, and lore.

Date: Thursday, Oct. 29
Time: 6:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Location: 21c Museum Hotel Louisville, 700 W. Main Street, 40202

The evening will include a talk on bat biology from a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist; live, seasonally appropriate music from Lacey Guthrie and friends; topical poetry and essay excerpts read by KNLT’s Joe Manning; and a discussion of the “More Than Human Life” framework from KNLT Executive Director, Greg Abernathy.

We hope you'll join us for this bat-themed evening!

Special thanks to Stock Yards Bank & Trust for sponsoring this event and 21c Museum Hotel Louisville for hosting us.

10/06/2026

Every square inch of 21c Louisville has contemporary art to discover. ✨ Stay a while in our lobby and discover Joana Choumali’s “Sometimes I Wonder If They Can Hear It As Well”.

Time is captured with both speed and slowness in Choumali’s photo-based, mixed media works, which combine digital images on canvas with textiles that are hand stitched with detail and care. “I need to touch and intervene with photography,” she says. The artist gathers smartphone pictures of the people, land, and cityscapes in her home city of Abidjan, and in Accra, taken at 5 am, transforming the images into layered, lyrical works that mix dreams and lived experiences, melancholy, and hope.

🖼️ Joana Choumali
"Sometimes I Wonder If They Can Hear It As Well”, 2019
Mixed media, embroidery and collage manual on digital photo printing, cotton canvas, embroidery on chiffon, and tulle over cotton

10/05/2026

09/25/2026

Curious about contemporary art? Meet us in the lobby every Friday at 5:00pm for a free guided museum tour.🖼️👀

Make a night of it and make a reservation for dinner at Proof On Main afterwards or join us for Art & Aperitivo Hour before! 🥂✨

09/22/2026

There’s unique art to explore around every corner and on every floor at 21c Museum Hotel Louisville. 👀 We’re excited to share our latest Elevate artist, Drew Scanlon!

Elevate exhibitions are on guest floors only, featuring artwork by regional artists. Take the elevator to the 3rd floor to see these pieces by ceramic artist Drew Scanlon. They describe their art objects as elevated tchotchkes, and comment on the commodification of clay, exploring the violent nature of the domination that lurks beneath attraction. The work is visceral, calling into question the relationship between self and other as well as the inherent abjection that occurs as the line between inside and out is blurred.

09/10/2026

The 21c Selects program celebrates local distillery partnerships and enhances the Kentucky Bourbon Trail experience with exclusive single-barrel bourbons and whiskeys chosen by our beverage team. Shop the 21c Louisville gift shop 24/7/365. 🥃✨

08/25/2026

The 13th season of Voice & Vision, our annual summer reading series presented in partnership with 21c Museum Hotel Louisville, will conclude with a celebration of new works THIS Thursday, August 20th from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. at 21c Museum Hotel, 700 West Main St. in downtown Louisville.

Co-directors of the series, Katy Yocom and Amy Foos Kapoor, appeared on TV this past weekend to talk about the line up, which includes writers B. Elizabeth Beck, Shauna M. Morgan, Teresa Richards, and Bruce Marshall Romans.

More info: https://buff.ly/UEPErGd

We hope to see you this Thursday!

08/03/2026

Get ready for the next edition of the annual summer reading series, Voice & Vision!

Spalding University Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing & 21c Museum Hotel Louisville will feature four exciting writers: B. Elizabeth Beck, Shauna M. Morgan, Teresa Richards, and Bruce Marshall Romans. Hosted by Katy Yocom and Amy Foos Kapoor.

The program will take place on Thursday, August 20, 2026, from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. at 21c Museum Hotel, 700 West Main St. in downtown Louisville.

07/10/2026

Voice & Vision, presented by the Spalding University Naslund-Mann School of Writing & 21c Museum Hotel Louisville, will feature five talented writers for the upcoming edition of our popular annual summer reading series.

The July program features writers duncan b. barlow, Amanda Driscoll, Michael Fitzer, Sarah Landenwich, and Emma McElvaney Talbott.

Hosted by Amy Foos Kapoor, the evening begins with an art talk from Alice Gray Stites.

Thursday, July 16, 2026
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
21c Museum Hotel Louisville, 700 West Main St., in downtown Louisville

Address

700 West Main Street
Louisville, KY
40202

Telephone

+15022176300

Website

http://www.21cmuseumhotels.com/

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