Greater Cincinnati Museums
BEHRINGER-CRAWFORD MUSEUM
Devou Park
Covington, KY
(859) 491-4003
Behringer-Crawford
is Northern Kentucky's only museum of Kentucky's natural and cultural
history spanning over 450 million years. Permanent exhibits include
galleries focusing on: paleontology; archaeology; local wildlife and
nature; the 19th century history of home life, politics, the
Underground Railroad & the Civil War; river heritage; and more.
CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
(513) 721-ARTS
Founded
in 1881, the Cincinnati Art Museum is one of the country's oldest
visual arts institutions, allowing visitors to sample 6,000 years of
distinguished world art including paintings, prints, drawings,
photography, sculpture, costumes, textiles and more. The Museum ‘s
permanent display area features 88 galleries for more than 80,000 pieces
of art. It also hosts a variety of temporary exhibits. Admission is
free, parking is $4.
CINCINNATI FIRE MUSEUM
315 West Court Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
(513) 621-5571
Located
in a 1907 National Register firehouse, the museum displays over 200
years of firefighting history. Among what visitors will see: early
leather fire buckets, an 1808 fire drum and the oldest surviving fire
engine in Cincinnati, and an Hunneman hand pumper. Children can jump
into a modern Emergency-One fire engine cab and wail the siren, ring the
bell and flash the lights!
CINCINNATI REDS HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM
Great American Ballpark, Downtown Cincinnati
(513) 765-7000
Located
in the Great American Ballpark, visitors to the Cincinnati Reds Hall
of Fame and Museum will be able to read about their favorite inductees,
relive the city's celebrated Opening Day Parade, and get a
"behind-the-scenes" look into the business side of baseball.
Interactive exhibits let fans test their skills at fielding, batting
and pitching. Visitors can also step into a recreated broadcast booth to
call plays.
CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER
44 E. 6th Street.
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
(513) 345-8400
For
more than 60 years the Contemporary Arts Center has been a forum for
progressive art and ideas. It focuses on new developments in painting,
sculpture, photography, architecture, performance art and new media by
artists from around the world.
HEBREW UNION COLLEGE SKIRBALL MUSEUM
Mayerson Hall at Hebrew Union College
3101 Clifton Ave.
Cincinnati, Ohio 45220
(513) 221-1875, ext. 358
The
HUC-Skirball Museum Cincinnati Branch houses a permanent collection of
Jewish archaeological artifacts from The Nelson Glueck School of
Biblical Archaeology in Jerusalem and Jewish ceremonial and ritual
objects. Additional exhibits depict Torah study, American Judaism with
an emphasis on Cincinnati and HUC-JIR, aspects of the Holocaust, and
modern Israel. Temporary exhibits are displayed in the special,
changing exhibition gallery
THE MUSEUM CENTER AT CINCINNATI UNION TERMINAL
1301 Western Ave
Cincinnati, Ohio 45203
(513) 287-7000 or 800-733-2077
Originally
built in 1933, as the Union Terminal train station, this beautiful art
deco building is a national historic landmark and was renovated and
re-opened as the Cincinnati Museum Center in 1990. It is a nationally
recognized educational and research resource, and one of the top
cultural attractions in the Midwest. The Museum Center is home to the
Cincinnati History Museum, Cinergy Children's Museum, the Museum of
Natural History & Science, the Robert D. Lindner Family OMNIMAX® Theater,
and the Cincinnati Historical Society Library. As a center for the
entire community, more than 700 events are held in the building each
year.
CINCINNATI HISTORY MUSEUM
The
Cincinnati History Museum is one of the largest urban history museums
in the country, with permanent exhibits that include a recreation of
the Cincinnati Public Landing in the late 1850s. The museum also has
the largest home fron exhibit on World War II and an actual 1940s
streetcar. Plus, visitors can talk with costumed interpreters who make
"history come to life." A museum favorite, Cincinnati in Motion, is a
model of the city from 1900 through the 1940s with working trains,
streetcars and inclines, and an interactive computer. The Cincinnati
Historical Society Library is the largest repository for the region's
history and serves as a valuable resource for research in producing
exhibits.
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY & SCIENCE
The
Museum of Natural History & Science allows visitors to walk
through a glacier and step back 19,000 years into the Ice Age. It
includes an 8,000-square foot simulated Kentucky limestone cave,
complete with underground waterfalls, streams, fossils and a live bat
colony and a realistic recreation of a glacial ice cave in Alaska,
Greenland and Iceland.
DUKE ENERGY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
The
Cinergy Children's Museum is one of the top children's museums in the
country with hours of hands-on fun awaiting kids of all ages. They can
climb, crawl, explore and learn about themselves and the world in nine
exhibit areas. Among the exhibits: Water Works features a winding,
running river and hydraulic laboratory and The Woods encourages children
to challenge their physical prowess and explore their imagination.
NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER
50 E Freedom Way
Cincinnati, OH 45202
(513) 333-7500
Situated
on the banks of the Ohio River, the waters that once separated slave
and free territory, the Freedom Center is a three-pavilion learning
center that celebrates the legacy of courage and multicultural
cooperation embodied in the story of the Underground Railroad. Of equal
importance, the Freedom Center uses a wide array of exhibits to
educate the public about the historic and continuing struggle to
establish universal freedom in both the U.S. and around the world.
TAFT MUSEUM OF ART
316 Pike Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
(513) 241-0343
A
National Historic Landmark built around 1820, the Taft Museum of Art
is known as one of the finest small art museums in America. The Taft is
home to nearly 700 works of art, including European and American master
paintings; Chinese porcelains; and European decorative arts.
WARREN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM
105 S. Broadway
Lebanon, Ohio 45036
(513) 932-1817
This
magnificent three-story historical museum showcases the development of
southwestern Ohio from prehistoric days through the 19th century,
including an award-winning Shaker gallery.