In an earlier post, we announced the sharing of over 60,000 of Museum Center’s Invertebrate Paleontology records to the global iDigBio website and explained how this benefits the scientific community. But, how does this actually happen? What steps are involved to place our records on an international research platform?
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Collections 101: What’s a Collection? Does your collection have good provenance?
Museums and libraries collect materials in an effort to document human history and to learn more about the natural world. Museum Center acquires and preserves its collections of historically- or scientifically-important items as a public trust.
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Portal to the World: Cincinnati Celebrates Its New Railroad Terminal
On March 31, 1933, a turn of a ceremonial gold key unlocked the doors of Cincinnati’s brand new Union Terminal. The newspaper declared that a portal to the world had swung open.
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What Could Have Been: Terminal Towers
Union Terminal now houses three museums and an OMNIMAX Theater, but it could have been utilized in a completely different way!
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Cincinnati Museum Center Has Reopened!
After a two-and-a-half-year restoration, Cincinnati Museum Center is once again open to the general public. Construction on the building’s first full structural restoration began in earnest in July 2016, when Union Terminal’s iconic Rotunda was sealed off from the public.
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