museums

Located in scenic Eden Park, the Cincinnati Art Museum features a diverse, encyclopedic art collection of more than 73,000 works spanning 6,000 years. In addition to displaying its own broad collection, the museum also hosts several national and international traveling exhibitions each year

The Taft Museum of Art is a fine art collection that occupies the 200-year-old historic house at 316 Pike Street. The house – the oldest domestic wooden structure in downtown Cincinnati – was built about 1820 and housed several prominent Cincinnatians, including Martin Baum, Nicholas Longworth, David Sinton, Anna Sinton Taft and Charles Phelps Taft.

The CAC is one of the first contemporary art institutions in the United States. The CAC is a non-collecting museum that focuses on new developments in painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, performance art and new media. In 2003, the CAC moved to a new building designed by Zaha Hadid. 

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a museum in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, based on the history of the Underground Railroad. Opened in 2004, the center also pays tribute to all efforts to "abolish human enslavement and secure freedom for all people.

The Cincinnati Museum Center is a museum complex operating out of the Cincinnati Union Terminal in the Queensgate neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. It houses museums, theater, a library, and a symphonic pipe organ, as well as special traveling exhibitions. The museum provides a home to five organizations: Cincinnati History Museum, Museum of Natural History & Science, Robert D. Lindner Family Omnimax Theater, Cincinnati History Library and Archives, and the Duke Energy Children's Museum.

The American Sign Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, preserves, archives, and displays a collection of signs. The museum also displays the equipment utilized in the design and manufacture of signs.

Other points of interest

Over-the-Rhine is a vibrant historic neighborhood known for its 19th-century architecture, bustling arts scene, and diverse culinary offerings. We recommend a visit if you have some hours to spend and are looking for cute pop ins and yummy ice cream.

The 6th oldest and rated one of the best zoos in the country. Famously home to Fiona the hippo and Harambe (RIP), Martha, the last living passenger pigeon,

Cincinnati businessman Henry Probasco dedicated our famous fountain “To the People of Cincinnati” in memory of his business partner and brother-in-law, Tyler Davidson, on October 6, 1871. Designed to rival the great fountains of Europe, the bronze and granite fountain glorifies the blessings of water it famously featured in the opening credits of WKRP in Cincinnati.

Fountain Square is a city square in downtown close to the Netherland Plaza. Founded in 1871, it was renovated in 1971 and 2005 and currently features many shops, restaurants, hotels, and offices.

Located within Eden Park in between Cincinnati's East Walnut Hills and Mount Adams neighborhoods, Krohn Conservatory is an incredible botanical garden filled with over 3,500 plant species from around the world. It’s widely recognized as one of the country’s largest public greenhouses.

Riverfront Park is the new dynamic 45-acre park located along the region’s historic riverfront, flanking the Roebling Suspension Bridge between Great American Ballpark and Paul Brown Stadium. Features include an outdoor event stage, promenade, visitor and bike center, labyrinth, interactive fountains, a monument to the Black Brigade and the Moerlein Lager House.

Historical Sites & Architecture

Carew Tower is a 49-story, 574-foot Art Deco building completed in 1931 in the heart of downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, overlooking the Ohio River waterfront. The structure is the second-tallest building in the city, and it was added to the register of National Historic Landmarks on April 19, 1994. It's adjacent to the Hilton Netherland Plaza.

One of the last great American train stations built, Union Terminal is a Cincinnati icon and one of the most widely regarded examples of the art deco style. Since its opening in 1933, Union Terminal has had a long and storied history, from welcoming soldiers home from World War II to becoming the home of three museums, an OMNIMAX® Theater and the Cincinnati History Library and Archives.

The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark at 73 Forest Street in Hartford, Connecticut that was once the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Stowe lived in this house for the last 23 years of her life.

A two-story Greek Revival house and museum that was the birthplace and childhood home of William Howard Taft, the 27th president and the 10th chief justice of the United States.

A website featuring some of Cincinnati's finest Art Deco buildings

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