Smithsonian Affiliate Museum
4089 Iron Works Parkway
Kentucky Horse Park
Lexington, KY 40511
(859) 233-4303
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The museum traces the 50-million-year history of the horse. Priceless artifacts and special exhibits showcase the variety of horse breeds and disciplines available today. Includes: Timeline of the Horse, Horse Breeds of the World, the Horse in Sport, the Al-Marah Arabian Horse Galleries and more.
Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands, through October 9, 2011 - a major sampling of steppe art from the renowned Sackler Collections. Eighty-five works illustrate the personal decorations and equipment of the horse-riding steppe dwellers of the late 2nd and 1st millennia BCE.
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