Four-foot tall red plastic penguins line the roof of this boutique hotel and modern art museum like friendly sentries. When it opened in 2006, 21C immediately attracted national acclaim for its elegant restoration of a 19th-century building, attention to service, and cutting-edge art collection. Guests mingle with gallery visitors and locals who are dining in the hotel's award-winning...
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This 91-room hotel, hung with works from the owner's private collection (including pieces by Andres Serrano and Sam Taylor-Wood), pays homage to twenty-first-century art. Further distinguishing it from Louisville's stately hotels are its 5,000-square foot gallery and witty plastic...
Chic 90-room boutique hotel that doubles as the country's only museum dedicated to 21st century art, is a destination in and of itself. Posh amenity-loaded rooms include art and silver mint julep cups, attracting guests so cool you wonder what they're doing in Kentucky. Provocative works in the 5,000 sq ft gallery space change regularly, but first floor men's room is forever—visit its urinal,...
Louisville's most modern hotel also houses a contemporary art museum and restaurant, all in the historic West Main Street District.:
This 90-room hotel has won international acclaim due to its world-class luxuries, Southern-style hospitality and contemporary art (all from living artists, exhibited throughout its galleries and...