Oscar Getz Museum of Bourbon History

Spalding Hall is home to the Oscar Getz Museum of Bourbon History and the Bardstown Historical Museum. Our Museum of Bourbon History boasts a 50-year collection of rare whiskey artifacts dating from pre-colonial days to post-Prohibition days. The museum features rare antique bottles, a moonshine still, advertising art, novelty whiskey containers. Oscar Getz Museum of Bourbon History displays a 50 year collection of rare artifacts and documents concerning the American whiskey industry dating from pre-Colonial days to post-Prohibition years. The museum includes exhibits on President Washington, Abraham Lincoln, authentic moonshine stills, antique bottles and jugs, medicinal whiskey bottles, unique advertising art, novelty whiskey containers.