Join us we present our annual Bill Coleman Jazz Festival July 18th through 20th! On July 18th, enjoy a free jazz listening session at 7 p.m. at Hopewell Museum. On July 19th, join us for our Bill Coleman Jazz Dinner with live jazz by the Walnut Street Ramblers featuring vocalist La’Shelle Allen. Click here for tickets and details about the dinner. On July 20th, join us for free live jazz at Chief Reed Park starting at 2:30 p.m.

Stop by Hopewell Museum during Downtown Paris’s Spring Art Walk on April 25th from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Our featured artist will be Claudia Banahan. Click here for more details.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, Hopewell Museum in conjuction with Kentucky Humanities presents Chautauqua performer Janet Scott as she portrays Mary Caron Breckinridge in Call the Midwife on March 22nd at 2 p.m. at Hopewell Museum. This event is free and open to the public. Click here for more details.

Join us for our Black History Month featured talk “Keeneland’s Heart of the Turf: Racing’s Black Pioneers” at 2 p.m. on Saturday, February 15th at Hopewell Museum. We will be serving cookies and drinks. This event is free and open to the public.

Hopewell Museum will be holding an online quilt raffle, starting Saturday, February 8th. Two quilts are featured in the raffle, and you can purchase raffle tickets for one or both of them. We will announce the winners at Paris ArtWalk in April. To learn more about the quilts and to enter the raffle, click here for more details.

The Museum will be closed from December 21 – January 1 for the holidays. We will be open by appointment only January 2 – February 4, 2025. We will reopen to the public on February 5, 2025

Join us Friday, December 20th for the Hopewell Museum Holiday Party at Woodlawn (1515 Peacock Road in Paris). Come spend an evening of holiday music with spirits and hors d’oeuvres at historic Woodlawn. Festive attire is suggested. The party starts at 6 p.m. Tickets are $50 per person. This event is for adults 21 and above. Click here for more details.

Come join us for Cookies with Santa at the Hopewell Museum on Sunday, December 8th from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. for the general public, 1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. for those with special needs. This event is free and includes photos with Santa, refreshments, and a craft.

Join us on Sunday, November 3rd from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. for our Fall Open House Tour at Lan Mark Farm. Get more details and RSVP online.