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1. FRAZCW_180917_09.JPG: A Nation Divided
2. FRAZCW_180917_13.JPG: On the Border
3. FRAZCW_180917_16.JPG: Black Soldiers in Union Blue
4. FRAZCW_180917_19.JPG: 1st National Confederate Flag ca 1861
5. FRAZCW_180917_22.JPG: Painted Union Side Drum 1861-1865
6. FRAZCW_180917_27.JPG: Divided Nation
7. FRAZCW_180917_33.JPG: Josie Underwood
8. FRAZCW_180917_37.JPG: 36-Star American Flag ca 1864
9. FRAZCW_180917_41.JPG: Divided Family
10. FRAZCW_180917_44.JPG: Ciphers, Secrets, & Spies
11. FRAZCW_180917_62.JPG: Major John L. Davidson
12. FRAZCW_180917_64.JPG: Casket Wagon 1860-1865
13. FRAZCW_180917_68.JPG: City of the Dead
14. FRAZCW_180917_74.JPG: Divided Kentucky
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Wikipedia Description: Frazier History Museum
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The Frazier History Museum, previously known as the Frazier Historical Arms Museum and the Frazier International History Museum, is a history museum located on Museum Row in the West Main District of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. An affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, the Frazier documents and reinterprets stories from history using artifacts, gallery talks, and live daily interpretations by a staff of costumed actors known as “teaching artists.”

Founded in 2004 as a museum of historical arms and armor, the Frazier later expanded its focus to cover regional, national, and international history. The museum is home to one of the largest collections of toy soldiers and historical miniatures on permanent public display in the world, The Stewart Collection. Subjects of other permanent exhibitions include historical arms and bourbon whiskey.

In 2018, the museum became the official starting point of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour.

History

Prehistory

Owsley Brown Frazier, a wealthy businessman and philanthropist in Louisville, was an avid collector of historical arms. In 2000, the year he stepped down as Vice-Chairman of Brown-Forman, Frazier gave a presentation to the Kentucky Historical Society called “The Art of the Weapon” which spawned the idea for a museum. In 2001, Frazier purchased the building complex at 829 West Main Street. In 2002, a website was launched announcing the “Owsley Brown Frazier Historical Arms Museum,” an institution whose stated mission was “to acclaim the artistry, craftsmanship, and technological innovation of weapons and their makers.”

In February 2003, Frazier signed a formal agreement entering into a partnership with the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, also known as the United Kingdom's National Museum of Arms and Armour, an ancient institution of the Tower of London that was originally founded to manufacture armor for the Kings of England. The agreement outlined plans for the Frazier to borrow and display arms and armament on loan from the Royal Armouries. It was the first time that a British national museum had engaged in an ongoing collaboration with any organization beyond its shores.

Construction on the museum started in 2001 and ended in 2003. Mr. Frazier provided most of the funds for the $32 million project or backed loans that were taken out to finance the development.

Frazier Historical Arms Museum

The Frazier Historical Arms Museum opened to the public on May 22, 2004.

Its initial collection consisted of roughly 1,500 objects from the personal collection of Owsley Brown Frazier, dating from 1492 to World War I, and approximately 350 objects borrowed from the Royal Armouries, dating from 1066 to the 1960s. Included were antique guns, swords, arrows, and other historical arms and armor from Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, as well as life-size tableaux of mannequins and horse figures depicting battle scenes from European history.

Frazier International History Museum

In June 2006, the museum was renamed the Frazier International History Museum, a nod to the multinational origins of its collection. That year, the museum received another influx of foreign arms and military artifacts from the Royal Armouries. Over time, however, it began to shift its focus away from war and weaponry and toward more general topics of state, national, and global history. The permanent collection became gradually de-emphasized as the museum moved toward larger, temporary exhibitions.

Frazier History Museum

In 2011, the museum was renamed the Frazier History Museum.

In May 2012, a bronze sculpture of a Japanese warrior riding horseback into battle by Douwe Blumberg entitled Way of Horse and Bow was gifted to the Frazier by actor William Shatner and his wife Elizabeth. In August, the museum's founder and chief benefactor Owsley Brown Frazier died.

The last remaining objects on loan from the Royal Armouries were returned in January 2015.

In April 2017, the museum hosted The Hunger Games: The Exhibition, a special exhibition about the dystopian film franchise starring Jennifer Lawrence. A Louisville native, Lawrence, partnered with the Frazier to help promote the exhibition.

Lonely Planet, in naming Kentucky Bourbon Country as one of the top 10 U.S. destinations to visit in 2018, cited the Frazier Museum as a main attraction. In March 2018, the Frazier sold the first 250 bottles of Final Reserve: James Thompson and Brother Bourbon, a whiskey whose 45 years in the barrel made it the most mature bourbon ever bottled.

In August 2018, the Kentucky Bourbon Trail Welcome Center opened on the first floor of the museum. The Frazier thus became the official starting point of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour, a project launched in 1999 by the Kentucky Distillers' Association to promote bourbon tourism in the state.
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2018 photos: Overnight trips this year: (February) Greenville, NC for a Civil War Trust conference,, (May/June) Newport News, VA for another CWT conference, (July) my 13th consecutive trip to San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles), (August twice, October) three trips to New York City (including New York Comic-Con), and (September) Chicago, IL for my CWT swansong event. Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Number of photos taken this year: about 535,000.
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