Museum Collections

Flags, Guidons, and Banners. The museum collection features flags of both Union and Confederate Kentucky regiments from the Civil War. Other 19th-century conflicts represented in the flag collection include the Mexican War and the Spanish-American War.

Fine Arts. Paintings in the collection include the official portraits of all of Kentucky's governors, located in the Hall of Governors at the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History.

Quilts. The Kentucky Historical Society has approximately 140 quilts in its collection.  They are as diverse as the people who made them and come to the Society from all regions of the state.  The oldest date to the late 1700s with the majority having been made during the late-Victorian era.  KHS continues to collect quilts, including those made in the 20th and 21st centuries, and select examples are exhibited regularly in Kentucky Journey, the permanent exhibit of the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History.