This list of museums in Huntington, West Virginia encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are university and non-profit art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
Name | Neighborhood | Type | Note | Reference |
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Birke Art Gallery | Marshall University | Art | Art gallery displaying Marshall University student's work. | [1] |
C. Fred Edwards Conservatory | Ritter Park | Science | Largest conservatory in West Virginia, located next to Huntington Museum of Art | |
Central City Museum | Old Central City | History | History museum focusing on Appalachian history and culture. | |
Charles W. and Norma C. Carrol Gallery | Marshall University | Art | Art gallery displaying Marshall University student's work. | [1] |
Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society Indoor Railroad Museum | Downtown | Transportation | History museum focusing on rail transportation and Collis P. Huntington | |
Heritage Farm Children's Activity Museum | Harvey Town | Children's Activity | Children's Activity museum focusing on Appalachian history and culture, within the Heritage Farm Museum | [2] |
Heritage Farm Country Store Museum | Harvey Town | Business | History museum focusing on Appalachian history and culture, within the Heritage Farm Museum | [2] |
Heritage Farm Heritage Museum | Harvey Town | History | History museum focusing on Appalachian history and culture, within the Heritage Farm Museum | [2] |
Heritage Farm Industry Museum | Harvey Town | Industry | History museum focusing on Appalachian history and culture, within the Heritage Farm Museum | [2] |
Heritage Farm Progress Museum | Harvey Town | History | History museum focusing on Appalachian history and culture, within the Heritage Farm Museum | [2] |
Heritage Farm Schoolhouse Museum | Harvey Town | History | History museum focusing on Appalachian history and culture, within the Heritage Farm Museum | [2] |
Heritage Farm Transportation Museum | Harvey Town | Transportation | History museum focusing on Appalachian history and culture, within the Heritage Farm Museum | [2] |
Huntington Children's Museum | Old Central City | Children's Activity | General children's activity museum. | [3] |
Huntington Museum of Art | Ritter Park | Art | General fine art museum, the largest museum between Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Richmond. | [4] [5] |
Huntington Railroad Museum | Old Central City | Transportation | History museum focusing on railroad transportation and trains | |
Marshall University Geology Museum | Marshall University | Geology | Geology museum focusing on Appalachia. | |
Marshall University One-Room Schoolhouse | Marshall University | History | History museum focusing on Appalachia. | |
Museum of Radio and Technology | Harvey Town | Technology | History museum focusing on electronic communication and entertainment and includes hands-on exhibits. | [6] |
Pneumatic Gallery | Downtown | Art | Art gallery displaying Marshall University student's work. | [1] |
Safety Town | Old Central City | Children's Activity | Children's activity museum, focused on road safety, built to resemble a miniature town. | [7] [8] |
Sloane Square Gallery | Old Central City | Art | Art gallery focusing on Appalachian culture. | |
Thomas Carroll House | Guyandotte | History | A history museum focusing on the American Civil War. | |
Touma Medical Museum | Downtown | Medical | History museum that contains more than 2,800 medical artifacts, including a medical library, owned by Marshall University | |
Wayne County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,982. Its county seat is Wayne. The county was founded in 1842 and named for General "Mad" Anthony Wayne. Wayne County is part of the Huntington–Ashland, WV–KY–OH Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Huntington is a city in Cabell and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The county seat of Cabell County, the city is located at the confluence of the Ohio and Guyandotte rivers. Huntington is the second-most populous city in West Virginia, with a population of 46,842 as of the 2020 census. Its metro area, the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area, is the largest in West Virginia, spanning seven counties across three states and having a population of 376,155 at the 2020 census.
Ashland is a home rule-class city in Boyd County, Kentucky, United States. The largest city in Boyd County, Ashland is located upon a southern bank of the Ohio River at the state border with Ohio and near West Virginia. The population was 21,625 at the 2020 census. Ashland is a principal city of the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area, referred to locally as the "Tri-State area", home to 376,155 residents as of 2020. Ashland serves as an important economic and medical center for northeastern Kentucky.
Ceredo is a town in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Ohio River. The population was 1,408 at the 2020 census. Ceredo is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As of the 2000 census, the MSA had a population of 288,649.
Kenova is a city in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States, situated at the confluence of the Ohio and Big Sandy rivers. The city's name is a portmanteau of Kentucky, Ohio, and Virginia (Va), owing to its location where the three states met before the creation of West Virginia. The population was 3,030 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area.
The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest university art museums in the U.S. with 189,340 square feet devoted to temporary exhibitions, permanent collection galleries, storage, administrative offices, classrooms, a print study room, an auditorium, shop, and cafe. The Blanton's permanent collection consists of more than 21,000 works, with significant holdings of modern and contemporary art, Latin American art, Old Master paintings, and prints and drawings from Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
The Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area is a metropolitan area in the Appalachian Plateau region of the United States. Referred to locally as the "Tri-State area," and colloquially as "Kyova", the region spans seven counties in the three states of Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia. With a population of 361,580, the Tri-State area is nestled along the banks of the Ohio River. The region offers a diverse range of outdoor activities.
Cabell Huntington Hospital is a regional, 303-bed academic medical center located in Huntington, West Virginia. Cabell Huntington cares for patients from more than 29 counties in West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and southern Ohio. It is one of the ten largest general hospitals in West Virginia. Opened in 1956, it is also a teaching hospital and is affiliated with the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, School of Nursing, and School of Pharmacy. The hospital is also home to the Edwards Comprehensive Cancer Center, a three-story facility that opened in 2006.
The Tri-State Transit Authority (TTA) is the city bus system in Huntington, West Virginia, and Ironton, Ohio, as well as its suburbs. Its buses range, on the West Virginia side from 21st Street in Kenova, WV to Milton, West Virginia, about 20 miles to the east. On the Ohio side the buses range from downtown Ironton to the Huntington suburb of Proctorville, Ohio, which is also a range of about 20 miles. Interchange buses provide links between Huntington and Chesapeake, Ohio, and between Ironton and Ashland, Kentucky, where transfers are available to the Ashland Bus System (ABS). However the system does not interchange between the TTA and ABS in Ceredo, West Virginia, even though the buses pass within a few blocks of one another.
Ashland Bus System (ABS) provides the municipal bus service in the City of Ashland, Kentucky and its nearby suburbs. Unlike many such services, it is operated by the city government itself. Its routes also reach the suburbs, including Ceredo, West Virginia and Kenova, West Virginia. This is a result of a dispute between those twin cities, and the West Virginia and Ohio bus system known as the Tri-State Transit Authority, known as TTA.
The Highlands Museum and Discovery Center is a heritage center and science center located in Ashland, Kentucky, United States. The museum displays exhibits on local history and specialized science displays for children along with providing educational outreach programs.
Minnie Adkins is an American folk artist.
Boone County Historical Society was established in 1924. Located in Columbia, Missouri, United States, the Boone County Historical Museum has been collecting, preserving and exhibiting artifacts and records of the people of Boone County, Missouri.
Catlettsburg is a former Chesapeake and Ohio Railway station located in downtown Catlettsburg, Kentucky. Opened between 1897 and 1890 to replace an older wooden station, it served trains until 1958. Amtrak trains began stopping at Tri-State Station some 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the north in 1975; it was renamed Catlettsburg around 1988. Amtrak service was moved from Catlettsburg to Ashland in 1998. The C&O station was refurbished from 2004 to 2006 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Huntington, West Virginia, USA.
Safety Town is a children activity museum, located next to the Huntington Railroad Museum in Huntington, West Virginia. The museum focuses on road safety and transportation safety.