This is a list of museums in Cincinnati and non-profit and university art galleries.
| Name | Neighborhood | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Classical Music Hall of Fame and Museum | Over-the-Rhine | Hall of fame - Music - Classical | |
| American Sign Museum | Camp Washington | Media | Formerly known as the National Sign of the Times Museum, art, design and manufacture of signs |
| Art Academy of Cincinnati | Over-the-Rhine | Art | Features three galleries |
| Betts House | West End | Historic house | Early 19th century brick house, operated by The Colonial Dames of America |
| Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education | Kenwood | History | [1] |
| Cincinnati Art Museum | Mount Adams | Art | |
| Cincinnati History Museum | West End | Local history | Part of Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, city's history |
| Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal | West End | Multiple | Complex includes Cincinnati History Museum, Museum of Natural History & Science, Duke Energy Children's Museum, Cincinnati History Library and Archives and the Robert D. Lindner Family Omnimax Theater |
| Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum | Central Business District | Hall of fame - Sports | |
| Cincinnati Triple Steam Museum | California, OH Greater Cincinnati Water Works | Steam Engines | Displays four of the world's largest crank and flywheel water pumping steam engines used between 1906 and 1963. |
| Cincinnati Type & Print Museum | Lower Price Hill | History | Letterpress Museum, Artist Studio, Job Training Program [2] |
| Contemporary Arts Center | Central Business District | Art | |
| Duke Energy Children's Museum | West End | Children's | Part of Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, formerly the Cinergy Children's Museum |
| Fire Museum of Greater Cincinnati | Downtown | Firefighting | Located in a former firehouse |
| German Heritage Museum | Monfort Heights | Ethnic - German American | Contributions of the German immigrants and their descendants in the Ohio River Valley and America |
| Greater Cincinnati Police Museum | Over-the-Rhine | Law enforcement | [3] |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe House | Walnut Hills | Biographical | House where author Harriet Beecher Stowe and family lived |
| Heritage Village Museum | Sharonville | Living History Museum | 19th-century village of thirteen buildings including homes, a church, a train station, a general store, a print shop, a Doctor's office, and a schoolhouse. |
| Laurel Court | College Hill | Historic house | Early 20th-century Gilded Age mansion |
| Lloyd Library and Museum | Downtown | Art | Library of medical botany, pharmacy, eclectic medicine, and horticulture with art exhibits from its collections |
| Museum of Natural History & Science | West End | Natural history | Part of the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, exhibits include dinosaurs, Egyptian mummies, geology, Neil Armstrong and Apollo 11 |
| National Underground Railroad Freedom Center | Downtown | History | Stories of freedom's heroes, from the era of the Underground Railroad to contemporary times |
| National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting | West Chester | American History | The original broadcast station of the Voice of America. Includes the Gray History of Wireless Collection and the Media Heritage Collection (original Cincinnati Radio and TV). |
| Price Hill Historical Society Museum | Price Hill | Local history | [4] |
| Skirball Museum in Cincinnati | Camp Washington | Religious | Part of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, cultural, historical, and religious heritage of the Jewish people [5] |
| Taft Museum of Art | Downtown | Art | Historic house with fine and decorative art |
| Verdin Bell and Clock Museum | Over-the-Rhine | Commodity | Antique clocks, bells and bell-ringing equipment |
| University of Cincinnati Art Galleries | Art | Dorothy W. & C. Lawson Reed Jr. Gallery in the DAAP Aronoff complex; Philip M. Meyers Jr. Memorial Gallery in the Steger Student Life Center; Sycamore Gallery is used on special occasions when an exhibition opportunity is presented on short notice [6] | |
| William Howard Taft National Historic Site | Mount Auburn | Biographical | Home of President William Howard Taft |
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