Owensboro Museum of Fine Art — Attraction in Owensboro

I feel this is a very important story to get across. I will preface by saying the museum itself, is lovely. Absolutely no problem with the museum or its presentation. My issue is with unprofessional conduct exhibited by one of the museums employees, named Justin I believe. I was there a few months ago with my girlfriend and my mother enjoying the exhibits. Justin, who I believe is one of the administrators of the museum, approaches my girlfriend and begins enthusiastically speaking with her, and suddenly begins offering work for her. Apparently, the museum is absolutely desperate for help and needs security guards and assistants. He made it sound like they would take any help they could get and it was urgent. So he keeps trying to sell her on coming to work for him as his assistant, not paying as much mind to me or my mother who were also expressing interest in roles at the museum. So we leave, and we all fill out the paperwork to try and do some part time volunteer work there. My girlfriend didn't submit an application because she lives a little too far from the museum, but me and my mother did and turned it in about a week after this first visit. We eventually call Justin to ask if he recieved the applications to which his first response is "What about the girl? Where is the girls application?" Once we told him she did not want to drive the distance he dropped it and suddenly didn't seem to want any help. Help he apparently urgently needed a week earlier. This is what I take from this. Justin sees my girlfriend, a young girl who is just 18, and instantly starts trying to find out all these things about her and tries to sell her on this opportunity to be his assistant. When she doesn't go for it, he apparently doesn't need this help that he made of point of needing badly. That tells me he was just looking for an excuse to have a young girl around for him to stare at and oggle, or God forbid even groom. Me, my girlfriend and my mother are all artists and all qualified for the positions they needed help with. For him to so quickly ignore these applications for help he badly wanted, just shows he was only interested in having this young girl around him to look at. It's creepy, it was blatantly obvious and it's completely unprofessional. Me and my girlfriend both found his backpeddling immensely odd and...

Exhibits were great and Kaleidoscope Kave was fun for the kids. As some others stated there was a young woman who worked/volunteered there who make us uncomfortable. She followed us around creepily. Listened to our conversations... An hour and a half before closing time she came into the kaleidoscope room and said; "Just letting you know that we close at 5." The kids were uncomfortable doing normal things like talking because they were afraid she would "hear us" and we would "be in trouble" for talking. The whole thing made a really enjoyable experience into a super uncomfortable one. And, no, I don't have unruly kids. Most people who want to expose their children to art and culture have spent the time to make sure their children behave in such settings. It was so bad that I told the young lady to her face that she was making us...

Nice museum. Admission is a $3 donation, which is definitely worth it. Due to Covid19, they do temperature checks and provide hand sanitizer when you come in. (Just helpful information just in case you are putting off going to museum because of covid.)

Building looks small but we spent over two hours looking at the art. Lots of displays from artist from Kentucky.

There is a stain glass collection, junior artist section, quilt displays and much more to enjoy. You have to try the kaleidoscope cave, which is even fun for the adults. There is sculptures also outside the...