South Central Kentucky Cultural Center

The South Central Kentucky Cultural Center is dedicated to telling the story of the people, places and events that make up the geographic area known as the "Barrens" - Metcalfe, Allen, Hart and Monroe Counties, as well as Barren County. Housed in the old Kentucky Pants factory in downtown Glasgow, the center - also known as the Museum of the Barrens - is 30,000 square feet packed with area history. Visitors can travel all the way back to 12,000 B.C.; also included are tools and firearms, a log cabin, and a gristmill from the mid - 1800's. Other attractions include an extensive military exhibit starting with the Civil War, a doll collection, a one-room schoolhouse and the town square as it looked at the turn of the century. The purpose of the South Central Kentucky Cultural Center is to attract people who are interested in learning about the history of the Barrens as depicted in the museum displays, conducting genealogical research and attending meetings in an attractive facility. Renovating this 30,000 square foot pants factory into a cultural center serves as an excellent example for other communities to emulate because it shows how the citizens of South Central Kentucky came together to renovate an abandoned historic resource, adapt a building to fulfill the needs of the community, revitalize activity in the downtown commercial district and preserve the urban fabric of their National Register Historic District in order to recall the history of the past for future generations.