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Behringer-Crawford Museum 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
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, textures 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.
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!
Contemporary Arts Center 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.
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
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 allows visitors to experience detailed re-creations of historic settings that show the story of Cincinnati’s growth, from the frontier to the bustling river town. Among the exhibits: a 94-foot sidewheel steamboat of the 1850s docked at Cincinnati's Public Landing, and the Cincinnati in Motion exhibit, a model of the city from 1900 to 1940 complete with working trains, trolleys, and inclines, as well as interactive computer stations. 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. Cinergy 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, 45202 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 Warren County Historical Society Museum
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