This list of museums in

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s, defined for this context as institutions (including

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es) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace or on the Internet (i.e.,

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s) are not included. Also included are non-profit and university art galleries. * See also List of museums in Cincinnati. * See also List of museums in Cleveland. * See also

List of museums in Columbus, Ohio This is a list of museums in Columbus, Ohio and non-profit and university art galleries. The city's first museum was the Walcutt Museum, opened July 1851. At its opening, the museum had about six wax figures and a few paintings. It grew to have a ...

Museums

Defunct museums

* American Gas Pump Heaven,

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, closed in 2016 * America's Ice Cream & Dairy Museum,

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, closed in 2010 * Cleveland Health Museum, AKA HealthSpace Cleveland, merged in 2007 with the

Cleveland Museum of Natural History The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum located approximately five miles (8 km) east of downtown Cleveland, Ohio in University Circle, a 550-acre (220 ha) concentration of educational, cultural and medical institu ...

* Degenhart Paperweight and Glass Museum, Cambridge, closed in 2011, portion of the collection relocated to the Museum of American Glass located in

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* Ely Chapman Foundation West African Museum, Marietta *

Hauck House Museum The Hauck House Museum is an Italianate mansion located in the Dayton Street Historic District in the Old West End Neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. It was built in 1870. The Hauck House has a striking façade of carved stone, and the spacious roo ...

, Cincinnati, no longer open as a museum * Hopalong Cassidy Museum, Cambridge, destroyed by fire in 2016 * Inland Seas Maritime Museum,

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, closed in 2012 in as the Great Lakes Historical Society prepares to open the National Museum of the Great Lakes in

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in 2013 * Kern-Harrington Museum, Plain Township, formerly operated by the New Albany-Plain Township Historical Society * Lake Shore Electric Railway * Little Italy Heritage Museum, closed in 2007 * Marietta Soda Fountain & Museum, Marietta *

National Cartoon Museum The National Cartoon Museum was an American museum dedicated to the collection, preservation and exhibition of cartoons, comic strips and animation. It was the brainchild of Mort Walker, creator of ''Beetle Bailey''. The museum opened in 1974, w ...

National Inventors Hall of Fame The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. Besides the Hall of Fame, it also opera ...

, Akron, moved to

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* Sara Rose Museum,

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* Trapshooting Hall of Fame & Museum, Vandalia, moved to

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, * USS ''Radford'' National Naval Museum, Newcomerstown, closed in 2011, contents now at the USS ''Orlect'' Naval Museum in

Lake Charles, Louisiana Lake Charles (French: ''Lac Charles'') is the fifth-largest incorporated city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and the parish seat of Calcasieu Parish, located on Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and the Calcasieu River. Founded in 1861 in Calcasieu ...

* Viets House Museum, Cortland, formerly operated by the Cortland-Bazetta Historical Society, closed in 2011 * Western Reserve Model Railroad Museum, Mentor, closed in 2011

Regions

The regional column in the table features designations used by the Ohio Museum Association: * Central—including Columbus * Northeast—including Cleveland * Northwest—including Toledo * Southeast * Southwest—including Cincinnati & Dayton

References

External links

Ohio Museums Association

Ohio Museums
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