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This list of museums in Ohio is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The second Rookwood Pottery building, on top of Mount Adams, was built in 1891–1892 by H. Neill Wilson, who was son of prominent Cincinnati architect James Keys Wilson. One of the early decorators was E. T. Hurley who joined Rookwood in 1896 and worked there for over 50 years. He was a student of Frank Duveneck at the Cincinnati Art Academy ...
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: Cincinnati Art Museum: Mount Adams: Art Cincinnati History Museum ...
The concept of a national museum dedicated to African American history and culture can be traced back to the second decade of the 20th century. In 1915, African American veterans of the Union Army met in Washington, D.C., for a reunion and parade. Frustrated with the racial discrimination they still faced, the veterans formed a committee to ...
Glazed earthenware vase by Laura Anne Fry for the Rookwood Pottery Company, 1883. Fry was an exceptionally talented woodcarver, [3] and one of her earliest public works was a carved panel of lilies that took first prize ($100 in gold) in a competition for designs to decorate the organ screen in Cincinnati Music Hall, [1] which has been called the "magnum opus of the wood-carving movement" in ...
The properties are distributed across all parts of Cincinnati. For the purposes of this list, the city is split into three regions: Downtown Cincinnati, which includes all of the city south of Central Parkway, west of Interstates 71 and 471, and east of Interstate 75; Eastern Cincinnati, which includes all of the city outside Downtown Cincinnati and east of Vine Street; and Western Cincinnati ...
An excellent multimedia exhibit, "POMPEII: The Exhibition," opens on Feb. 16 just 90 minutes or so down the road from Columbus at the Cincinnati Museum Center (cincymuseum.org).
The Tall Stacks Festival, held every three or four years to celebrate Cincinnati's riverboat history. The Festival of Lights, hosted by the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden during the year-end holiday season. The Cincinnati Fringe Festival 12 Days of Theatre, Film, Visual Art, and Music in the heart of Over-the-Rhine. Ohio's Largest ...