The Frazier History Museum is where the world meets Kentucky.

But it turns out you don't even have to visit the Louisville Museum to make its acquaintance.

Kels.

Kentucky Edition's Kelsey Starks explains how.

Well we've been telling you about all this spectacular and insightful programing at the Frazier history Museum.

And so you may be wondering how you can see and experience all of it when you're not here in Louisville.

Well, Mark Sullivan is here to tell us how you can and guess what?

You don't even have to leave your house as long as you have your phone with you.

This is so exciting.

Tell us, what is Frazier Plus?

Yeah, we are very excited about it.

We've been working on it for about a year and it's a it's a way to break down walls.

We want to bring our museum and the stories that we tell and access to the objects and everything that we have in our building outside of the building.

So it's it functions a lot of ways.

It's a way to if you're in the museum and you're excited about something that you see, you're probably going to see an opportunity to scan a QR code and learn more about that.

We've got videos.

We got 40, almost 40 videos, and it's an ever growing body of stuff.

And people can get a deeper appreciation of what they're looking at.

If you're standing by the tree and boat, you can actually hear Torie talk about it, which is really great.

So this isn't only inside the museum.

One of the really cool aspects of this is these site based visits where you can actually hear stories at the actual sites.

Tell us about that.

Yeah, we're always looking for a way to tell a new story.

And doing it in a site outside of a building is such a powerful thing.

So we partnered with a number of organizations here in Louisville and New Albany, Indiana to create this experience called The Journey.

So it's a 45 minute audio tour and it site is site specific.

So you can go there's four spots here in Louisville, and then there's two spots across the river that all pertain to the story of the Blackbirds, who were a married couple here in Louisville in 1840.

They were enslaved, but they made an escape and ultimately settled in Toronto.

And their story is just it's it's epic in scope.

And we tell that story with the help of people like Dr. Rickey Jones and Jermaine Fowler and Shea Smith and also the author of the book I've Got a Home in Glory Land, Caroline Smarts for us.

So we we use we brought all those people together and created this really rich.

You know, there's music, there's visual elements, too, and you're using the app on your phone and you can hear this amazing story and be in the places where those things happen.

What are some of the.

Other stories that you will have, the exhibits that you can really take a deeper dive with with this app?

Well, we have three floors of space.

You know, there's three, three floors of galleries.

And we have video content now on all three floors.

So if you are into the bourbon trail, like we're the starting point of the bourbon trail, we've got really great videos.

You can understand the role of the Ohio River and bourbon trade.

You can understand how the Bourbon Act of 1964 impacted what, you know, what's on our shelves today, things like that.

But in our commonwealth exhibit, which is a really robust look at the history of Kentucky, we've got there's an installation, there's an art installation that a Rhodes and artist University of Louisville Glass Department installed that has to do with the life of the enslaved.

And we have an interview with him so you can watch him work on the pieces and you can hear him reflect on that or just take a deep dive into, you know, a tattoo needle from Native American culture that, you know, is thousands of years old that we have on the wall as well.

And then.

Yeah, and then, of course, my favorite is the Tory Murden boat.

We've got a great video of her.

You can see her talking about it.

You can see her rowing the boat.

And then then we have the American Pearl at the museum, which is amazing.

And amazing expansion outside the walls of the Frazier Museum.

Thank you so much for being here.

Frazier Prize is available this month.

You can download it anywhere you get your ads.

Google Play, the App Store will be back to you.

Thank you Kelsey.

All Frazier Plus content is accessible in the museum and Apple version of the app will be available this month.