The Kentucky Historical Society has awarded the Friends of Audubon a $2,444 Kentucky Local History Trust Fund grant to support digitization of the Audubon Museum’s collection. This grant will help the Audubon Museum to improve collections management and increase access to its historically important collection of items from artist and naturalist John James Audubon. The
In January 2021, the Friends of Audubon launched a new campaign – Unmatched Art, Unmatched Nature – to raise funds for two projects to improve John James Audubon State Park: 1. Adding an extension to the boardwalk at the Audubon Wetlands. Our plan includes a viewing platform overlooking the Cypress Slough, where Bald Eagles and
Since 2008, most visitors to the museum and nature center at John James Audubon State Park have passed the American Bald Eagle statue when walking up the front steps. Created by Kentucky artist, Raymond Graf, it is one of 16 life-sized bronze sculptures based on illustrations in John James Audubon’s The Birds of America that