The Frazier History Museum (Frazier Museum for short), formerly the Frazier Historical Arms Museum and more recently the Frazier International History Museum, is a museum in Louisville, Kentucky's "Museum Row" in the West Main District of downtown. It is named for the museum's founder Owsley Brown Frazier. The Frazier Museum has the distinction of being the only place in the world outside Great Britain to permanently house and display Royal Armouries artifacts. The museum is an affiliate in the Smithsonian Affiliations program.
The facilities include 75,000 square feet (7,000 m2) of exhibition space over three floors, as well as two areas for interpretations, a 120-seat auditorium, a 48-seat movie theater, and various displays (including multimedia, interactive and audio-visual). The Frazier Museum Store is on the first floor in the front of the museum, and contains a small vending/eating area.
There are also traveling exhibitions on display that are on loan from various sources. In addition, the museum has a fifth-floor rooftop garden that can be rented for activities. A number of costumed interpreters are employed, who perform daily historical interpretations as well as live demonstrations on the use of arms and armor. Educational, cultural and entertainment activities are hosted at the museum throughout the day and evening.
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