21c Museum Hotels

21c Museum Hotels
IndustryHotel
Founded2006; 18 years ago (2006)
Founders
  • Laura Lee Brown
  • Steve Wilson
Headquarters
Louisville, Kentucky
,
United States
Number of locations
9 hotels (2 under development)
Area served
United States
ParentAccorHotels
Websitehttp://www.21cmuseumhotels.com/

21c Museum Hotels is a contemporary art museum and boutique hotel chain based in Louisville, Kentucky. The chain also has locations in Lexington, Kentucky; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; Bentonville, Arkansas; Durham, North Carolina; St. Louis, Missouri; and Kansas City, Missouri;.[1] Each of these eight properties comprises a boutique hotel, a contemporary art museum, and a restaurant. It was acquired by the French hotel group Accor in July 2018 for $51 million.

21c Museum Hotel was voted among the Top 10 Hotels in the World in the Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards in 2009, 2010 and 2011.[2] It was also voted as the #1 Hotel in the South in the 2012 Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards.

21c Museum Hotel, Cincinnati was named the top hotel in America and the 11th in the world in 2013 by Condé Nast Traveler's annual reader survey.[3]

  1. ^ 21c Museum Hotels. "21c Museum Hotel Durham - Downtown Durham Luxury Hotel".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "2009 Readers' Choice Awards," Conde Nast Traveler, October 2009. http://www.concierge.com/ideas/luxury/tours/501143?page=5 Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Demeropolis, Tom (2013-04-18). "21c Museum Hotel Cincinnati named to Condé Nast Traveler's Hot List". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2017-09-07.