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‘For the Love of Bourbon & Chocolates’ Happens Feb. 11, 2016
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New fundraising event for Bardstown’s Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History
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The Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History houses a 5,000-piece collection of whiskey memorabilia that includes life-sized murals from 1940s-era liquor stores, an authentic moonshine still captured in the hills of Kentucky and a confiscated copper still that belonged to President George Washington. Top exhibits include an 1898 Hayner Combination-Lock Bar Bottle and a Victorian Bar and accompanying display.

The museum is located on the first floor of the circa 1826 Spalding Hall, formerly a college, a Civil War hospital for both North and South, an orphanage and a prep school. Also located in Spalding Hall is the free-admission Bardstown Historical Museum and the Rickhouse Restaurant, noted for its men of 120 fine bourbons.

For more information about this event, visit www.WhiskeyMuseum.com and click on the downloadable “For the Love of Bourbon & Chocolates” brochure or call Stephen Fante, 270-699-9004.

Media Contact:
Mary Ellyn Hamilton, Curator/Manager, 502-348-2999
Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History

Photo: The Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History is a Whisky Magazine “Whiskey Visitor Attraction of the Year.”
Credit: Bardstown-Nelson County Tourist & Convention Commission

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About Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History
The Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History displays a vast 50-year collection of rare artifacts and documents concerning the American whiskey industry dating from pre-Colonial days to post-Prohibition years. A Whisky Magazine “Whiskey Visitor Attraction of the Year,” the museum opened in 1984 with the personal collection of Bardstown native Oscar Getz, the late owner of the former Barton’s Distillery. Visitors find exhibits on Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, authentic moonshine stills, antique bottles and jugs, medicinal whiskey bottles, unique advertising art, novelty whiskey containers and more. The museum is located within the circa 1826 Spalding Hall, which has served historically as a college, a Civil War hospital for both North and South, an orphanage and a prep school. Also located in Spalding Hall is the Bardstown Historical Museum and the Rickhouse Restaurant, noted for the 120 bourbons on its menu.

About Bardstown, KY
Located in the heart of Kentucky Bourbon Country and situated at the trailhead of the famed Kentucky Bourbon Trail®, Bardstown is more familiarly known as the “Bourbon Capital of the World.” It is home to six distilleries, including Barton 1792 and Willett Distillery, and these four Kentucky Bourbon Trail® distilleries: Heaven Hill, Maker’s Mark, Jim Beam and Four Roses’ second campus. Major attractions include the outdoor musical, “The Stephen Foster Story,” My Old Kentucky Home State Park, the highly regarded Civil War Museum of the Western Theatre, My Old Kentucky Dinner Train, The Kentucky Railway Museum and Whisky Magazine’s Visitor Attraction of the Year – the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History. Additionally, Bardstown has four 18-hole golf courses, three wineries, two haunted tours and numerous religious attractions. Fodor picked Bardstown as one of “America’s Best Small Towns” and AARP named it one of its “10 best small towns.” It led TheCultureTrip.com’s list of the “10 Most Beautiful Towns in Kentucky” and was named the “Most Beautiful Small Town in America” in the Rand McNally/USA Today 2012 “Best of the Road” contest. Bardstown landed in the top 20 of “America’s Favorite Towns” by Travel + Leisure – which also recognized it as having one of “America’s Most Beautiful Town Squares.” In 2013, Bardstown was designated a certified Kentucky Cultural District, one of only six Kentucky cities to achieve this honor. www.facebook.com/BardstownKY