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Rodger Pille, (513) 287-7054, rpille@cincymuseum.org
Cincinnati History Museum Brings Local History To Life General Information Sheet History is much more than books and pictures. The Cincinnati History Museum at Cincinnati Museum Center invites visitors to see, touch and hear Cincinnati's past, with costumed interpreters guiding the way. Roll through Cincinnati in Motion – an S-scale model exhibit depicting the city of Cincinnati at 1/64th of its actual size, from 1900 through the 1940s. A big draw from model train enthusiasts, the exhibit is one of the largest S-scale models in the country. Each section of the exhibit illustrates a different decade and a different neighborhood. Downtown Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky are depicted in the 1940s, the West End in the 1930s, Mt. Adams in the 1920s, Spring Grove/Ivorydale areas in the 1910s and Over-the-Rhine/Mt. Auburn in the 1900s. In addition, two other areas deemed essential to the exhibit – Coney Island and Lunken Airfield – are also set in the 1940s. Each exhibit area and decade has a combination of buildings, structures, landscape and model trains and/or streetcars representative of the decade they interpret. As visitors wind down the ramps of what used to be the historic Union Terminal, they step back to when Cincinnati earned its reputation as the “Queen City of the West.” In this era, walking was the next best form of transportation to steamboating, and the Ohio River was the city's lifeline. Cincinnati: Settlement to 1860 is an environment created to make the visitor actually feel what it was like to live in a western frontier outpost, a regional capital, a manufacturing center and a booming metropolitan area. The 25,000 square feet of exhibit space covers the first century of Cincinnati's history, from woodland scenes with a replica of Fort Washington and a frontier homestead, to a bustling recreation of the Public Landing in the late 1850s. Meet some of the men and women who made the long journey to settle in the infant city, hear boosters praise the early city's culture and society, move cargo along a 50-foot model of the Miami and Erie canal, step aboard a 94-foot-long sidewheel steamboat docked at the Cincinnati Public Landing of the 1850s, and browse stores like the dress shop and pork merchant along an entire block of recreated 19th century buildings. Cincinnati Goes to War Exhibit: A Community Responds
to WWII is the nation's largest portrait of the home front during World
War II, focusing on the wartime experiences of Greater Cincinnatians.
See three-dimensional, interactive exhibits on volunteer bond and Rear-screen projection film characters and audio narrators talk to visitors about day-to-day life during wartime in a variety of settings: an American family’s living room, a full-scale wartime gas station and an actual street car full of the bustling street sounds of Cincinnati in the 1940s. Between 1850 and 1900, Cincinnati was the machine tool capital of the world. Find out about this aspect of the Queen City’s history in Forming a New World: Cincinnati's Machine Tool Industry, 1850 – 1930. The exhibit includes the 1910 Shop, a recreated, working, turn-of-the-century machine shop, machine tool-related artifacts, some of the products that depend on machine tools, blueprints, photos and much more. Also housed in Cincinnati Museum Center is the Cincinnati Historical Society Library, one the nation's largest regional research libraries, which is free of charge and open to the public six days a week. Founded in 1831 as the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, the library has been collecting and preserving materials related to the Greater Cincinnati area, the State of Ohio and the history of the Northwest Territory ever since. Collections include manuscripts, books, maps, periodicals, genealogical resources, architectural records, photograph collections, records relating to area businesses and broadcasting films. Admission to the Cincinnati History Museum is $7.25 for adults and $5.25 for children (ages 3-12). Children ages 1-2 are admitted to all museums for $4.25. Seniors (60+) receive a $1 discount. Members are admitted free. Prices are subject to change. The museum is open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. For membership information, call (513) 287-7000 or (800) 733-2077. Web site: www.cincymuseum.org # # #
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