Posted September 2, 200618 yr Omnimax to close for 10-week renovation By Connie Yeager Post staff reporter Cincinnati Museum Center's Robert D. Lindner Family Omnimax Theater will close for renovations after Monday's screenings. The theater will be closed for approximately 10 weeks for improvements slated to cost between $950,000 and $1 million, officials said. The improvements will include: Read More...
November 10, 200618 yr It will reopen in 8 days: Festival reopens Omnimax BY JIM KNIPPENBERG | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER The viewers have spoken: Icy winters, life under water and nature's magic, sound, fire and fury are where it's at. That from Dave Duszynski, director of the Cincinnati Museum Center's Robert D. Lindner Family Omnimax Theater, where a just-completed poll determined the six movies (out of a possible 30) that fans would most like to see again when the theater reopens Nov. 18. First opened in 1990, the Omnimax has been closed since Sept. 5 for a $1 million facelift that includes new carpet, seats, lighting and sound, projector upgrades and captioning for the deaf, audio tracks for the blind and alternative language tracks. Read More...
November 12, 200618 yr oh, the Grand Canyon film was cool! I was hoping the volcano movie would return too though.
November 24, 200618 yr Author A bigger, better Omnimax $1 million upgrade promises a more exhilarating experience BY JIM KNIPPENBERG | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER Eleven weeks and $1 million later, the Robert D. Lindner Family Omnimax Theater reopens today at the Cincinnati Museum Center as the most state-of-the-art Imax theater in the country. It was state-of-the-art in 1990 when it opened, but technology marches forward, carpets grow threadbare, and seats get lumpy. So by its Labor Day weekend closing, it was ready for a makeover. Not anymore, says David Duszynski, the 52-year-old vice president of theaters, Omnimax director since it opened 16 years ago and the guy who guided the renovations. "Right now, this is without question the No. 1 Omnimax theater in the world," he said as he ticked off the reasons: Read More...
November 24, 200618 yr I checked out a few films in a preview. The new screen (no visible seams) and sound system rock.
June 29, 200717 yr Museum Center expects to break records with Real Pirates exhibit BY DAN MONK | June 29, 2007 The man who developed the Cincinnati Museum Center's Real Pirates exhibit is hoping to break attendance records with the show, making its U.S. debut in Cincinnati June 30. "Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship," tells the tale of Sam Bellamy, a pirate captain who stole a slave ship in the Caribbean and then used it to raid 50 more ships before wrecking in a storm near Cape Cod in 1717. Underwater explorer Barry Clifford discovered the wreckage - and its more than four tons of treasure - in 1984. Artifacts recovered by Clifford fill a 15,000-square-foot exhibit, which will tour 10 U.S. cities in the next five years. The exhibit was developed by John Norman, who set a Museum Center attendance record by drawing 185,000 people to "Saint Peter and the Vatican: The Legacy of the Popes," an exhibit of art and historical objects collected over centuries by the Roman Catholic church. Norman said today that he thinks the pirate exhibit will draw bigger crowds than the Vatican show. Read full article here: http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2007/06/25/daily61.html
June 30, 200717 yr I'm really looking forward to this exhibit, but it will probably be a few weeks before I make it. If anyone goes, please post your impressions.
July 30, 200717 yr I saw the "Body World" exhibit in Los Angeles a couple years ago. It was so unreal it wound up not being gruesome at all. Some of the "artistry" was kinda lame, tho. Exhibit to show real bodies Museum plans revealing look at cadavers BY JIM KNIPPENBERG Cincinnati will soon host one of the largest, most revealing and perhaps most controversial museum exhibits ever. Opening in January at the Cincinnati Museum Center, "Bodies ... The Exhibition" is a show of 20 human cadavers and 260 body parts, preserved by a process called plastination and exhibited to educate viewers on the workings of the human body. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070730/ENT/707300301
July 30, 200717 yr The article didn't mention when it'll be here, but your link has a side-bar that says: "Bodies ... The Exhibition" is scheduled to open at the Cincinnati Museum Center in late January, after "Real Pirates'' closes. Times and prices should be announced in November. 513-287-7000; www.cincymuseum.org
July 31, 200717 yr If you don't want to wait, "Bodies" is on display now in Columbus at Easton Market Center. http://www.museumtix.com/venue/program.asp?vid=707&pid=158009
July 31, 200717 yr Might be a good choice. It wouldn't surprise me if the pervs at CCV try to shut it down for being erotic.
July 31, 200717 yr I found the quotes from local medical professionals interesting. Maybe they're trying to prevent good old Si Leis from trying to shut down the show. I'm looking forward to this. WORLD-RENOWNED “BODIES” EXHIBITION COMING TO CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER AT UNION TERMINAL Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal announced today that it will open the highly successful and anticipated real human body experience, BODIES … The Exhibition in January 2008. Visitors will have a one-of-a-kind opportunity to come face-to-face with full human bodies and partial body specimens in a way never seen before. These meticulously dissected bodies are preserved through an innovative process and respectfully presented, giving visitors the opportunity to view the beauty and complexity of their own organs and systems. In addition to providing an up-close look inside our skeletal, muscular, respiratory and circulatory systems, the exhibition encourages healthy lifestyle choices by serving as a wake-up call. To read more: http://www.cincymuseum.org/explore_our_sites/special_exhibits_events/coming_soon/
July 31, 200717 yr bodies has been at the seaport in manhattan since '05. i guess they got some new corpses to twist up with these new editions of it. personally i am sick of looking at the ads for it -- yeah, it creeps me out.
July 31, 200717 yr This show was extremely popular when it came through Cleveland in 2005. They extended it due to demand.
August 1, 200717 yr Yeah I saw it in Cleveland a couple of years ago. Very cool, even though It sounds gross. It has been here in D.C. for the summer, the ads are everywhere, so I know what your talking about mrnyc. Sounds like Cincinnati is one of the last places to host it.
September 28, 200717 yr Exhibit boosts museum's profits, industry prestige BY DAN MONK | September 28, 2007 The world premiere of "Freedom's Sisters" is still six months away, but the Cincinnati Museum Center already has assured itself a $300,000 profit from the traveling exhibition, honoring 20 African-American women who heroically fought for equality. The profit is clear because the Museum Center's traveling-exhibits division won an invitation-only bidding process to build and design the 1,800-square-foot exhibition, which will debut in Cincinnati in March 2008, then visit at least eight other venues by 2011. Museum Center President and CEO Douglass McDonald predicted the Museum Center will earn about $300,000 in net revenue from the contract. That figure represents funding over and above what it will cost to produce the event. Read full article here: http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2007/10/01/story14.html
January 9, 200817 yr 'Bodies' exhibit opens Feb. 1 BY JIM KNIPPENBERG | CINCINNATI ENQUIRER January 8, 2008 CINCINNATI - Cincinnati got its first glimpse at the Cincinnati Museum Center’s “Bodies…The Exhibition” Tuesday, when Center CEO Douglass McDonald and “Bodies” medical director Dr. Roy Glover unveiled one of the specimens from the show as well as a table of five human organs. The exhibit will show 15-20 human cadavers and 250 body parts preserved by a process called plastination. Bodies are stripped of skin to show the insides – muscles, tendons, bones, circulatory system, organs – and shown in a variety of positions to illustrate how the body works. Click on link for article.
January 28, 200817 yr Archbishop says no to 'Bodies' exhibit BY JIM KNIPPENBERG | CINCINNATI ENQUIRER January 28, 2008 CINCINNATI - Students at Archdiocese of Cincinnati-affiliated schools who were planning classroom field trips to “Bodies…The Exhibition” will have to find another way to get there. The Archdiocese sent school administrators an e-mail last Friday quoting the Rev. Daniel Pilarczyk, Archbishop of Cincinnati, saying, “I do not believe that this exhibit is an appropriate destination for field trips by our Catholic schools.” But he also stopped short of telling people not to go to the exhibit, which opens Friday at the Cincinnati Museum Center: “If parents, as the primary educators of their children, believe that it has educational value, they should be the ones to take their children to see it.” Click on link for article.
January 28, 200817 yr ^ Ok, I'm going to go there . . . What's "unseemly" is the Archdiocese's mishadling of priest molestations for decades. My own personal opinion - It bugs me to no end to bring up these morality issues when they lost credibility on morality years ago. It just makes me laugh and get mad all at the same time.
January 30, 200817 yr It's actually pretty lame, I thought. Fun fact though, the heart produces enough pressure to squirt blood twenty feet.
February 3, 200817 yr For those of you who went on the last tour in 2006, hopefully you can attest it was a great time. Well, it's back and better than ever! Tickets are now available online at http://www.otrbrewerydistrict.org/events_tour_08.php -- We will start our tour at the Museum Center, where your tour admission will include admission to the Cincinnati History Museum's special exhibit on Cincinnati's brewing history. We'll hear from Christian Moerlein Brewing Company's CEO Greg Hardman, as he tells us the amazing story of how Christian Moerlein left his native Germany and started one of the biggest breweries in the country, a story that mirrors the history of Cincinnati. The bus tour will include many of the remaining brewery buildings in Cincinnati, including the John Hauck Dayton Street Brewery, the Clyffside Brewery, the Jackson Brewery, and the Christian Moerlein Brewery. We will explore the life of another of Cincinnati's great brewers at the John Hauck House Museum, where this restored mansion on Cincinnati's original "Millionaire's Row" contains original antiques, furnishings and brewing memorabilia. Our final stop is at another of Cincinnati's great breweries, the Kauffmann Brewery. Here we will journey to the sub-basements and tunnels of the brewery, spaces unused since Prohibition.
February 5, 200817 yr 'Bodies' sets records February 5, 2008 | CINCINNATI ENQUIRER CINCINNATI - The "Bodies" exhibit at the Cincinnati Museum Center set an attendance record over the weekend. More than 6,000 people toured the 15,000-square-foot exhibit Friday through Sunday, including 3,150 visitors on Saturday alone. Click on link for article.
February 6, 200817 yr It's actually pretty lame, I thought. Fun fact though, the heart produces enough pressure to squirt blood twenty feet. So those scenes in Kill Bill might not have been so outlandish afterall.
February 6, 200817 yr I hope that this big name exhibit can help put the Museum Center in a better financial situation. They seem to be doing an excellent job with bringing in solid exhibits lately. I have been to the last two, Titanic, and Real Pirates, and I plan on seeing this in Cincinnati when I get back from school in May.
February 12, 200817 yr I just got my tickets! Never had a chance to go before, so I'm really excited. I can't wait to see the Kauffman Brewery's tunnels!
February 15, 200817 yr Cincinnati doctors see value in contentious 'Bodies' show Show on track for highest draw ever at Museum Center BY JAMES RITCHIE | CINCINNATI BUSINESS COURIER February 15, 2008 CINCINNATI - Even the most experienced doctors could learn a few things from the controversial "Bodies: The Exhibition" show at the Cincinnati Museum Center. "I really thought it was tremendous educational value, an opportunity for individuals and even physicians to see the human body in a form they never get to see - even in an autopsy suite," said Dr. O'dell Owens, who is Hamilton County coroner and served on an ethics advisory panel that helped decide whether to bring the show to town. Click on link for article.
March 4, 200817 yr Prohibition Resistance Tour to show off Brewery District's gems BY KEVIN LEMASTER | SOAPBOX MEDIA March 4, 2008 OVER-THE-RHINE - This weekend's Prohibition Resistance Tour is an opportunity for the Brewery District Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation (CURC) to show off its many hidden gems and to celebrate the area's rich brewing history. The bus tour will include stops at the John Hauck Dayton Street Brewery, the Clyffside Brewery, the Jackson Brewery, the Christian Moerlein Brewery, and the never-before-seen sub-basements and tunnels of the Kauffmann Brewery on Vine Street. The tour is one of the main fundraisers for the CURC, which will help the all-volunteer organization finance new office space, as well as provide capital to leverage matching grants for new development. Brewery District CURC Executive Director Steven Hampton says that the Prohibition Resistance Tour is a great way to open peoples' eyes to what the area has to offer. "The brewing history is such a unique hook to bring people into Over-the-Rhine who would normally never step foot into the neighborhood," he said. Hampton would like to see the Over-the-Rhine subdistrict become a unique collection of residential, commercial and industrial buildings, offering different types of jobs and growing the city's tax base. "I'd like to see a true mixed-use neighborhood," he said. "I see us having number of larger, unique projects. It will be a business, but it will also be an attraction." The $30 tour is being presented in conjunction with the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal and the John Hauck House Museum. Tickets can be purchased at www.bockfest.com.
March 4, 200817 yr Can't afford 30 bucks for the tour :| ...poor college student. That 30 can go towards Cincinnati's finest brew. I will be at Bockfest though.
March 4, 200817 yr Can't afford 30 bucks for the tour :| ...poor college student. That 30 can go towards Cincinnati's finest brew. I will be at Bockfest though. If you want to take the tour for free, we still need volunteers. Some of the positions include being a guide for each tour group, which basically means you take the tour and make sure the group stays together and on time. No speaking is required. Go to http://www.otrbrewerydistrict.org/events_tour_08_vol.php for details.
March 17, 200817 yr The Tours have been rescheduled for April 12 and 13th. We are adding additional events to make the weekend even bigger: -- CINCINNATI, OHIO – MARCH 17, 2008 - On April 11-13, 2008 the Brewery District Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation (Brewery District) will present an entire weekend that honors Cincinnati’s brewing history and gives it new life. An Ohio Historical Marker and McMicken Avenue Street signage honoring Cincinnati’s brewing history will be unveiled, followed by the groundbreaking of “The Clyffside”, the newest condo redevelopment project in Over-the-Rhine’s Brewery District. On Saturday April 12th and Sunday April 13th, the rescheduled Prohibition Resistance Tours will give the public a rare opportunity to travel back to Nineteenth Century Cincinnati and explore the city’s rich brewing heritage, both above and below ground. Both the tour participants and the public will have an opportunity all weekend long to sample Christian Moerlein’s newest beers as we reopen the Moerlein Ale Haus at historic Findlay Market. On Friday April 11 at 3PM, the Brewery District will unveil an Ohio Historical Maker, along with additional signage along McMicken Avenue, which honors Cincinnati’s brewing heritage. Cincinnati’s brewing industry was one of the largest in the country. At one point during the height of production, over 18 of the 36 breweries in greater Cincinnati were operating in Over-the-Rhine and the West End. Even after Prohibition closed most of the breweries permanently, the Brewery District still contains the majority of Cincinnati’s remaining breweries and brewery complexes. Administered by the Ohio Historical Society, the Historical Markers program enables Ohioans to commemorate and celebrate local history and to learn more about the state. Designed to be permanent and highly visible, the historic markers are large cast aluminum signs that tell stories about aspects of Ohio’s history. Immediately after the marker unveiling at 4PM, the Brewery District, Clyffside Development Company, and Comey & Shepard will hold the groundbreaking for “The Clyffside”, which is the newest condo renovation project in Over-the-Rhine’s Brewery District. The Public is invited to attend the groundbreaking of “The Clyffside” and enjoy refreshments at a reception to showcase unique property. The historic brewery at 244-246 West McMicken Avenue, founded in 1845 as the Hamilton Brewery, was also operated as the William S. Sohn Brewing Company, the Mohawk Brewing Company, the Clyffside Brewing Company, and finally the Red Top Brewing Company. The brewery buildings date from 1845 and 1887, and are a stellar example of Cincinnati’s grand brewing past. The renovated building will house 19 condo units with unique two-story units. The renovated brewery will include garage parking, decks with city views, rooftop terraces, luxury finishes, townhome and flat style floor plans, industrial style lofts, elevator access, soaring ceilings, and tax abatements. More information about “The Clyffside” can be found from Comey & Shepard at www.theclyffside.com. On Saturday March April 12th and Sunday April 13th the Brewery District, in conjunction with Cincinnati Museum Center’s History Museum at Union Terminal along with the John Hauck House Museum, will be presenting the “Prohibition Resistance Tour”. Rescheduled due to the blizzard on Bockfest weekend, the tours will start at Cincinnati Museum Center at seven different times on Saturday and six different times on Sunday. All tickets are sold for specific times and seating for each tour is limited. Tickets are $30 and available at www.otrbrewerydistrict.org. Ticket price includes a guided bus and walking tour, a voucher (good for six months) for admission to the Cincinnati History Museum at Cincinnati Museum Center, and drink tickets for the Ale Haus. Tours will last roughly two-and-a-half hours. Each tour will start at Museum Center, where the tour will include an admission voucher to the Cincinnati History Museum's Beer, Breweries and Barons: A History of Cincinnati’s Brewing Industry exhibit. Greg Hardman, the CEO of Christian Moerlein Brewing Company, will give a presentation on the amazing story of how Christian Moerlein left his native Germany and started one of the biggest breweries in the country, a story that mirrors the history of Cincinnati. The bus tour will include many of the remaining historic brewery buildings in Cincinnati, including the John Hauck Dayton Street Brewery, the Clyffside Brewery, the Jackson Brewery, and the Christian Moerlein Brewery. We will explore the life of another of Cincinnati's great brewers at the John Hauck House Museum, where this restored mansion on Cincinnati's original "Millionaire's Row" contains original antiques, furnishings and brewing memorabilia. Our final stop is at the Kauffmann Brewery on Vine Street, where we will journey through the sub-basements and tunnels of the brewery, spaces unused since Prohibition and never before opened to the public. All stops on the Prohibition Resistance Tour 2008 differ from the previous sold out Prohibition Resistance Tour in 2006. As part of the weekend long festivities, the Brewery District reopens the doors of the Moerlein OTR Ale Haus from Saturday, April 12th through Sunday the 13th, 2008. The Moerlein OTR Ale Haus is located in a new location at 116 W. Elder St. on Findlay Market Square. This four-day event will introduce the NEW MOERLEIN BARBOROSSA DOUBLE DARK LAGER as well as the highly popular OTR ALE. The Moerlein OTR Ale Haus will have the following hours of operation: Saturday, April 12th: 10AM - 7PM and Sunday, April 13th: 11AM - 7PM
July 3, 200816 yr Black history exhibit coming Museum Center has pivotal role http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080703/NEWS01/807030309/1055/NEWS
August 22, 200816 yr Museum Center builds national exhibit http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080822/ENT/80822001/1055/NEWS An exhibit opening Jan.15 in Philadelphia is about to thrust the Cincinnati Museum Center into the national spotlight. "America I AM: The African American Imprint," celebrating 400 years of African-American life in the United States, is a 12-gallery exhibit that the Museum Center developed in cooperation with the Smiley Group, a Los Angeles-based human rights organization, and Arts and Exhibitions International, the company that mounted “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibit,” “Real Pirates,” “St. Peter and the Vatican: The Legacy of the Popes,” among others.
August 23, 200816 yr "everyone" You know what he meant, it's a non-issue. Everybody makes mistakes...you know, like your birth. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 23, 200816 yr "everyone" You know what he meant, it's a non-issue. Everybody makes mistakes...you know, like your birth. Jesus, he knows I'm just playing with him, CDM. Quit posting hammered.
August 23, 200816 yr "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 27, 200816 yr The last chance to view Bodies... the Exhibit http://www.pulsedt.com/blogs/default.asp?Display=2655 "BodiesThe Exhibition" ends its run at the Cincinnati Museum Center on Sept. 1 having drawn a record number of visitors. More than 275,000 visitors have seen the exhibit since its opening in February, says museum spokeswoman Laura Partridge. Visitors have included families with children, medical and art students, visitors to the city and people from just about every walk of life, she notes. The exhibit received some criticism throughout its stay. The conversation and controversy did not surprise nor deter the museum center from continuing its showing. "I think that when we look back on the experience of having the exhibit, we always hope to kind of spark community dialogue with everything we do here at the museum and I think we got some people talking about relevant issues," says Partridge. The Museum Center received much feedback from visitors, suggesting that "Bodies" was a good choice for the Greater Cincinnati community, says Partridge. "The vast majority of people walked away inspired." During the exhibit's stay, doctors from Greater Cincinnati have taken part as volunteers to answer visitors' questions about the body, anatomy and health. Medical students and drawing students grasped knowledge about the human body in ways they had not been able to prior to viewing the exhibit, says Partridge. The Cincinnati Museum Center has extended its hours, giving visitors a relaxed environment in which to see "BodiesThe Exhibition" and its companion Omnimax film, "The Human Body." Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday; and 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. on Sunday. For more information about the museum or for tickets, visit www.cincymuseum.org.
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