South Central Kentucky Cultural Center is located in the former 1920’s Kentucky Pants factory, the 30,000 square foot center currently has quality exhibits spanning three floors. The first floor features a display that represents central Kentucky  around 12,000 B.C. Items include stone and bone tools, knives, and Native American exhibits from other historic periods.
Visitors can also learn about the many facets of life in the 1800’s. These exhibits include a sewing machine from 1854, quilts, wooden washboard, lye soap and yoke along with a log cabin, smokehouse and farming equipment.
The second floor features an extensive military collection with items from the Civil War through Desert Storm. In addition, there is a model of Glasgow’s town square that includes businesses from the 20th century such as a post office, bank, doctor’s office, telephone switchboard, dry goods shop, undertaker’s business and other displays.
Visitors may also explore the genealogical research room which consists of family history books, census records, cemetery records, marriage records and more. The third floor features eighty years of newspapers from the south central counties of Kentucky.
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