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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, ur ...
museum in
Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ; colloquially nicknamed Cincy) is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Settled in 1788, the city is located on the northern side of the confluence of the Licking River (Kentucky), Licking and Ohio Ri ...
, 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 travelin ...
. 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 Downtown Cincinnati is one of the 52 List of Cincinnati neighborhoods, neighborhoods of Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the central business district of the city, as well as the economic and symbiotic center of the Cincinnati metropolitan area. Original ...
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 As of 2024, its exhibits now include: * Cincinnati in Motion * Made in Cincinnati * Shaping our City * You are Here * Public Landing * Indigenous People's Gallery (Coming 2026)


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* 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