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MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS made by some of the most respected and admired artists in
www.paducahky.gov/monuments-and-memorials the medium. A MUST SEE for art lovers, the museum has
won the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence six consecutive
The city is home to many important monuments and years and has been featured in publications including CNN
memorials. A sampling includes:
Travel, Midwest Living, Southern Living and USA Today.
1937 Flood Monument - located in the median of the 2900
block of Jefferson Street. The monument is inscribed PADUCAH RAILROAD MUSEUM
with the following: An expression of gratitude to all who 200 Washington Street
gave aid during the flood of 1937. The historical marker 270-908-6451
adjacent to the monument reads: The 1937 Flood. The www.paducahrr.org
Ohio Valley Flood of 1937 was the greatest natural disaster The Paducah Railroad Museum highlights the impact and
in the history of the U.S. and drove over one million importance of trains to the development of the region.
citizens from their homes. This location marks the water’s Paducah’s only railroad museum features a collection of
western edge in Paducah at the height of the flood, Feb. railroad artifacts, historic equipment, memorabilia, model
2, 1937. Over 90 percent of the city was inundated, 27,000 train layout and local and national exhibits.
people were evacuated and damage exceeded $22,000,000.
The monument was dedicated June 19, 1938. The eagle PADUCAH SCHOOL OF ART
at the top of the monument was once on the post office AND DESIGN
facility at 5th and Broadway. That facility was demolished West Kentucky Community and Technical College
in 1937. 905 Harrison Street
270-534-3901
Vice President Alben W. Barkley (1877-1956) Memorial -
paducahschoolofartanddesign.org
located in the median of Jefferson Street at the intersection
Peggy.allgood@kctcs.edu
with Joe Clifton Drive. The inscription on the memorial
reads: “I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord West Kentucky Community and Technical College’s Paducah
than to sit in the seats of the mighty.” The memorial was School of Art and Design was established in Lower Town
sponsored by the Paducah Junior Chamber of Commerce Paducah in 2008 to stimulate tourism and the local economy
and the Kentucky State Federation of Labor. Barkley while providing world-class art instruction that includes the
served as Vice President of the United States from 1949 state’s first Associate in Fine Arts degree program.
to 1953. He was popularly known as the “Veep.” The
The three-building art campus offers classes in drawing,
monument was dedicated April 14, 1957.
painting, photography, printmaking, ceramics, small metals,
THE NATIONAL QUILT MUSEUM sculpture, visual communication and multimedia. The 2D
215 Jefferson St. and Graphic Design Building houses studios, a library/reading
270-442-8856 room, 2D Design studio, conference room, recording studio,
www.quiltmuseum.org lecture hall, the 1,600-square foot Bill Ford Gallery and
the bistro style Kitchens Café.

PADUCAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
(Performs at The Carson Center)
270-444-0065
www.paducahsymphony.org
Under the direction of Maestro Raffaele Ponti, the Paducah
Symphony Orchestra’s seven-show series bring the sounds
of classic composers to life on the Carson Center stage.
The popular Christmas Celebration concert has become a
community favorite, selling out every year. The symphony
is dedicated to fostering a love of music in local youth and
A nationally recognized art museum, the National Quilt
Museum exhibits the finest quilt and fiber art in the world. provides young performers opportunities through the
Visitors can see rotating exhibits of quilts and other fiber art Paducah Symphony Youth and Children’s Choruses.

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