List of museums in Cincinnati

This is a list of museums in Cincinnati and non-profit and university art galleries.

Museums
Name Neighborhood Type Summary
American Classical Music Hall of Fame and Museum Over-the-Rhine Hall of fame - Music - Classical
American Sign Museum Camp Washington Media Formerly known as the National Sign of the Times Museum, art, design and manufacture of signs
Art Academy of Cincinnati Over-the-Rhine Art Features three galleries
Betts House West End Historic house Early 19th century brick house, operated by The Colonial Dames of America
Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education Kenwood History [1]
Cincinnati Art Museum Mount Adams Art
Cincinnati History Museum West End Local history Part of Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, city's history
Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal West End Multiple Complex includes Cincinnati History Museum, Museum of Natural History & Science, Duke Energy Children's Museum, Cincinnati History Library and Archives and the Robert D. Lindner Family Omnimax Theater
Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum Central Business District Hall of fame - Sports
Cincinnati Triple Steam Museum California, OH

Greater Cincinnati Water Works

 Steam Engines Displays four of the world's largest crank and flywheel water pumping steam engines used between 1906 and 1963.
Cincinnati Type & Print Museum Lower Price Hill History Letterpress Museum, Artist Studio, Job Training Program
Contemporary Arts Center Central Business District Art
Duke Energy Children's Museum West End Children's Part of Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, formerly the Cinergy Children's Museum
Fire Museum of Greater Cincinnati Downtown Firefighting Located in a former firehouse
German Heritage Museum Monfort Heights Ethnic - German American Contributions of the German immigrants and their descendants in the Ohio River Valley and America
Greater Cincinnati Police Museum Over-the-Rhine Law enforcement [2]
Harriet Beecher Stowe House Walnut Hills Biographical House where author Harriet Beecher Stowe and family lived
Heritage Village Museum Sharonville Living History Museum 19th-century village of thirteen buildings including homes, a church, a train station, a general store, a print shop, a Doctor's office, and a schoolhouse.
Laurel Court College Hill Historic house Early 20th-century Gilded Age mansion
Lloyd Library and Museum Downtown Art Library of medical botany, pharmacy, eclectic medicine, and horticulture with art exhibits from its collections
Museum of Natural History & Science West End Natural history Part of the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, exhibits include dinosaurs, Egyptian mummies, geology, Neil Armstrong and Apollo 11
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Downtown History Stories of freedom’s heroes, from the era of the Underground Railroad to contemporary times
National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting West Chester American History The original broadcast station of the Voice of America. Includes the Gray History of Wireless Collection and the Media Heritage Collection (original Cincinnati Radio and TV).
Price Hill Historical Society Museum Price Hill Local history [3]
Skirball Museum in Cincinnati Camp Washington Religious Part of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, cultural, historical, and religious heritage of the Jewish people[4]
Taft Museum of Art Downtown Art Historic house with fine and decorative art
Verdin Bell and Clock Museum Over-the-Rhine Commodity Antique clocks, bells and bell-ringing equipment
University of Cincinnati Art Galleries Art Dorothy W. & C. Lawson Reed, Jr. Gallery in the DAAP Aronoff complex; Philip M. Meyers Jr. Memorial Gallery in the Steger Student Life Center; Sycamore Gallery is used on special occasions when an exhibition opportunity is presented on short notice[5]
William Howard Taft National Historic Site Mount Auburn Biographical Home of President William Howard Taft

Defunct museums

See also

References
  1. "Official site". Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  2. "Official site". Greater Cincinnati Police Museum. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  3. "Official site". Price Hill Historical Society Museum. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  4. "Skirball Museum in Cincinnati". Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  5. "Where to find campus art galleries". University of Cincinnati. Retrieved 6 October 2017.


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