The Cincinnati History Museum is an

urban history Urban history is a field of history that examines the historical nature of cities and towns, and the process of urbanization. The approach is often multidisciplinary, crossing boundaries into fields like social history, architectural history, urb ...

museum in

Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...

, Ohio, United States. It opened in 1990 at the

Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal 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 ...

. The museum features the recreated Cincinnati Public Landing from the mid 1860s and an exhibit covering Cincinnati's role in World War II. Cincinnati In Motion is a scale model representation of

Downtown Cincinnati Downtown Cincinnati is the central business district of Cincinnati, Ohio, as well the economic and symbiotic center of the Cincinnati metropolitan area. It also contains a number of urban neighborhoods in the low land area between the Ohio Ri ...

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

References

External links

* History museums in Ohio History of Cincinnati Museums established in 1990 Museums in Cincinnati 1990 establishments in Ohio City museums in the United States Cincinnati Union Terminal {{Ohio-museum-stub