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An art museum houses a permanent collection, whereas a gallery usually hosts a changing program of art exhibitions. However, some university and college art galleries also feature permanent collections or showcase collections owned by the larger institution. Some institutions have a museum or an art gallery, and some have both.
Until 2008 the museum was known as the Somerset County Museum. Heritage Lottery Fund support was obtained to improve the museum, and the new museum reopened at the end of September 2011. Exhibits include the Frome Hoard , the Low Ham Roman Mosaic , the bronze-age South Cadbury shield and a range of other objects relating to the history of the ...
Ohio River Museum: Marietta Washington Southeast Maritime Operated by the Ohio History Connection, transportation and natural history of the Ohio River Ohio State Reformatory: Mansfield Richland Northeast Prison Late 19th-century prison in use until 1990 Ohio Tobacco Museum Ripley Brown Southwest Industry Tobacco farming and production [189]
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
Museum of Somerset; R. Radstock Museum; W. Woodspring Priory This page was last edited on 23 December 2016, at 13:41 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
An original lock of the Miami and Erie Canal is located on the grounds, as is a canal toll office. The transportation center vehicles include the John Quincy Adams steam locomotive (built in 1835 by the B&O Railroad and is the oldest US-built locomotive that still exists), [5] a Barney and Smith passenger car built in Dayton, a Conestoga wagon, a 1908 Stoddard-Dayton automobile, a 1915 Xenia ...
Ohio University (Ohio or OU) is a public research university with its main campus in Athens, Ohio, United States. [9] The university was first conceived in the 1787 contract between the Board of Treasury of the United States and the Ohio Company of Associates, which set aside the College Lands to support a university, and subsequently approved by the territorial legislature in 1802 and the ...
The Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Formed in 1878 as the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts (its name until 1978), [3] it was the first art museum to register its charter with the state of Ohio. The museum collects and exhibits American and European modern and contemporary art, folk art, glass art, and ...