The Colonel Harland Sanders Museum located in Louisville has the story of the Colonel dating back to the being. It explains a story with chronicles and exhibits that show the success of Kentucky Fried Chicken. You will learn about the man himself as well as how he started out cooking chicken when he was forty years old in a little gas station for twenty years before opening his first franchise.
Everyone enjoys visiting the museum and traveling through the years of the Colonel and learning how he received the honorary title of Colonel as well as where he lived and his life leading up to his franchises of over six hundred fast food restaurants operating throughout the world. You will learn why the name changed from Kentucky Fried Chicken to KFC. Visitors can learn about the secret recipe and where it is kept under lock and key.
The Colonel Harland Sanders Museum takes you through the process of coming up with the perfect seasoning for his chicken. It tells a story of how the Colonel found a way to cook the chicken faster so his gas station customers did not have to wait over a half hour for his then famous chicken.
The museum exhibits the early life of Harland with pictures and shows how the years had changed the look and name of the franchise he built from his famous chicken recipe. Everyone enjoys a visit to the museum and you will even smell the aroma throughout the museum.