Speed Art Museum

The Speed Art Museum, in Louisville, Kentucky, is an independent, encyclopedic museum, and the oldest and largest art museum in the state. The Speed serves as a cultural hub where people can connect with each other and the work of artists from across the world in new and unexpected ways. Established in 1927 by philanthropist Hattie Bishop Speed, the museum has undergone several renovations and expansions, now occupying over 200,000 sq ft on the University of Louisville’s Belknap campus. The most recent of which, led by wHY Architecture’s Kulapat Yantrasast in 2016, tripled the amount of exhibition space and added a state of the art cinema, a family education center, indoor/outdoor café, museum shop, and a multifunctional pavilion for performances, lectures and entertainment to the museum’s robust offerings.