Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County

09/03/2026

We are so excited to announce our title sponsor for the museum's annual gala this year - Planters Bank!

We are so appreciative of Planters' support in helping to make our upcoming Gant Gaither gala a wonderful evening for all!

Check out this awesome Planters ad from a 1996 Kentucky New Era issue. Planters Bank opened 30 years ago this month, and with it began their legacy of generosity in Hopkinsville. We are so grateful for everything Planters does for the museum and our community!

09/01/2026

We had the pleasure of welcoming two students from Murray State University's history department on Saturday as they researched the history of death for their senior seminar!

This studious pair got to see some death-related artifacts in our collection, view our basement coffins, and help clean tombstones at the cemetery on Vine Street! Thank you to Murray State for sending your students our way!

08/31/2026

It's less than two weeks until our Palm Springs Supper Club! This extra-special installment is part of our Gant Gaither programming leading up to the museum's annual gala.

Thursday, Sept. 10, Alissa and returning chef Matthew Brown will draw from this 1980s cookbook, filled with recipes submitted by Palm Springs celebrities and the type of Californians who would have been in Gant Gaither's scene.

Tickets are still available - we hope to see you there!

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08/30/2026

Have you seen our new banner yet?

We are in gala mode here at the museum as we get ready to celebrate all things Gant Gaither on Friday, Sept. 18! Visit our website or stop by the museum to get your tickets!

Special thanks to our staff's fabulous Grace Abernethy for hand-painting our beautiful banner!

08/29/2026

CALLING ALL ARTISTS! 📣

As part of the museum's Gant Gaither Gala on Friday, Sept. 18, we will be holding a silent art auction featuring eight pieces of Gaither's work - and art by YOU!

We invite any and all local artists to submit a piece to the gala using our selected Gaither artifacts as inspiration. Any art medium will be accepted - feel free to think as far inside or outside the box as you’d like!

Your artwork will be on display at the museum the week leading up to the gala and up for auction the evening of.

NOTE: We politely request that no artwork is submitted that was made with generative AI.

Learn more about Create from the Collection and view our Gaither artifacts here:
https://www.museumsofhopkinsville.org/gala/

08/28/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out to History on Tap last night! We will never pass up an opportunity to talk about Gant Gaither, and we hope you found him as wonderful and interesting as we do!

We hope you'll join us at our museum gala Friday, Sept. 18 for a zoophisticated mid-century evening celebrating the extraordinary life and art of Gaither. Congratulations to Sandy Cunningham who won two free gala tickets in our giveaway!

Learn more about the gala and purchase tickets here:
https://www.museumsofhopkinsville.org/gala/

08/27/2026

Did you know Dolly Parton came to Hopkinsville in 1973?

Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner performed a free concert at the Western Kentucky State Fair’s Grandstand Show July 31, 1973.

According to the Kentucky New Era, the concert brought in a crowd of around 5,000, and by the time Dolly stepped onstage, “even standing room was in strong demand.”

The New Era reported, “The threat of rain and muddy ground apparently did little to discourage the overflow crowd which flocked to the grandstand area to see and hear Porter and ‘Miss Dolly,’” who complained in a good-natured way of having mud on her guitar!

Dolly Parton was one of a kind, and we will miss her dearly!

08/23/2026

Thank you so much to everyone who came out to the museum Saturday to support the Christian County Art Loop! We loved seeing all the beautiful artwork you created at our Gant Gaither watercolor station! 🎨🖌️

Stay tuned for more Gant Gaither programming as we lead up to our annual gala!

08/21/2026

08/21/2026

It’s Alien Story Time! Enjoy an out-of-the-world story with our friends from the Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library!