Plan Your Visit

Click here for a map and directions to the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum.

Museum Hours                                                                    Admission Fees

Monday by appointment only                                                                  Adults $5

Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.                                             Students $1

Final tours begin at 4:30 p.m.                                                                      Children 6 & Under Free

The property has two entrances. A pedestrian entrance is located at 200 Wallace Avenue at the west end of the property. A vehicular entrance is located off Elston Avenue. A handicapped accessible parking lot is located through the large double gates off Elston Avenue. Free street parking is also available on Elston Avenue.

Tours of the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum begin at the Carriage House Interpretive Center, the yellow building adjacent to the parking lot on the east end of the property.  The Carriage House hosts an introductory film about Lew Wallace, changing exhibits in the Lynne D. Hohlbein Education Room, and a gift shop.

All tours of the inside of the General's Study building are guided.  Visitors can tour the grounds, arboretum, and gardens unguided (free) during open hours.

Photography is allowed in all exhibitions except where otherwise indicated.  Staff requests that the flash feature on cameras be disabled before taking photographs inside the Museum.

The Museum welcomes school classes and homeschool groups for tours of our facility.  The Museum hosts a variety of different themed tours for school groups depending on grade level and interest.

Cost for school tours is $1 for student; teachers and adult chaperones from Montgomery County, Indiana, are free. 

Contact Associate Director Erin Gobel at 765-362-5769 or email egobel@ben-hur.com to make a school group tour reservation.

Van-accessible parking is available in the parking lot on the Elston Ave. entrance.  The Carriage House Interpretive Center (yellow building) and the public restroom building on the Museum campus are fully handicap-accessible, as are the grounds, which feature sidewalks throughout.  Please be advised that the main Study building is a historic structure that has four steps leading into it.  An introductory film about Lew Wallace is closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. 

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