21C Museum Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky again voted best USA's best hotel by Conde Nast Traveler

A Louisville, Ky., boutique hotel that revolves around its owners' $10 million art collection hastaken top honors for the second consecutive year in Conde Nast Traveler magazine's Reader Choice Awards.

The 21c Museum Hotel - which houses an extensive modern art collection and the highly touted restaurant, Proof - was voted the best hotel in the USA by Traveler readers, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports.

Globally, Traveler's nearly 26,000 readers who participated in the survey ranked the 21c Museum Hotel the sixth-best hotel in the world for the second year running.

"I'm amazed," Steve Wilson, who with his wife, Laura Lee Brown, opened the 90-room hotel four years ago, tells the paper. The hotel dedicates 9,000 square feet to gallery space, but also features art in guestrooms, in the restaurant Proof, and even in public bathrooms.

"Most hotels use art as decoration," Wilson says, while museums often "don't recognize or accept the cult of commerce."

The hotel's art collection includes Text Rain, an interactive video installation by conceptual artists Camille Utterback, an American artist, and Romy Achituv, an Israeli artist.

The hotel's owners in the past have said they'd like to build more 21c Museum Hotels in other cities, so we'll have to keep an eye out for them in the future.

To celebrate its victory, the hotel's offering a complimentary toast of Woodford Reserve Bourban and a rate deal. Mention ROCKSTAR when calling to book a Thursday night or Sunday night getaway.