Cincinnati History Museum
The Cincinnati History Museum is an urban history museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It opened in 1990 at the Cincinnati [Museum Center|Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal].
The museum features the recreated Cincinnati Public Landing. Explore a recreation of the bustling Public Landing from the late 1850s and climb aboard the Queen of the West, a replica side-wheel steamboat. Take an aerial view of Cincinnati from the early 1900s through 1940s in Cincinnati in Motion, a 1/64-scale replica of the city complete with the nation’s largest S-scale train model. Cincinnati In Motion is a scale model representation of Downtown Cincinnati in the 1940s featuring working streetcars.
Galleries
The Cincinnati History Museum included 6 main galleries until its temporary closure in 2016:- Cincinnati In Motion
- Cincinnati Goes to War
- Early Settlement
- Flatboat Gallery
- Public Landing
- Machine Tools
- Cincinnati in Motion
- Made in Cincinnati
- Shaping our City
- You are Here
- Public Landing
- Indigenous People's Gallery