Both parking lots were completely full this past weekend.  Long lines inside too.

'Bodies' exhibition adds a week

It's already shattered Museum Center attendance mark

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The Cincinnati Museum Center has known all along that "Bodies ... The Exhibition" is a hit. How big a hit will become clear today when it announces a one-week extension and the possibility of expanded hours.

 

The show, originally set to end Monday, now closes Sept. 7.

 

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please make this go away now.

 

it's too bad that when we look back on the early oughts, unfortunately the craze over 'bodies' will be as much a part of it as 9/11 and the hipsters.

Cincinnati Museum Center’s new permanent exhibition takes visitors on hike through Edge of Appalachia

 

Barely a week before the opening at Cincinnati Museum Center, the John A. and Judy Ruthven Get Into Nature Gallery appeared to be nowhere near completion. It was crunch time. Behind the scenes, artists, carpenters and painters were working nonstop on the dioramas, aquariums, ponds, wildlife figures and plant life that will depict the Richard & Lucile Durrell Edge of Appalachia Preserve System in Adams County.

 

Named for the late wildlife artist John Ruthven and his wife, Judy, the Get Into Nature Gallery at Cincinnati Museum Center opens on Nov. 5. The immersive gallery invites you to take a hike through four seasons of the Edge of Appalachia Preserve, about 90 miles from Cincinnati. Costing $1.8 million, the new permanent exhibition is displayed down a curving ramp of the Museum of Natural History and Science in Union Terminal. For context, the enormous dinosaur skeletons of Dinosaur Hall can be seen just across the building.

 

The idea of this walk through nature been about four years in the process, with at least 18 months of intense work. But until the opening member party Nov. 4, it’s a mad dash to the finish line, said Elizabeth Pierce, president and CEO of Cincinnati Museum Center.

 

“Trust us, it’s always like this. It always feels like your heart’s about to explode until it all comes together,” she said.

 

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https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2022/11/04/museum-center-s-new-exhibition-immerses-visitors-i.html

 

Cincinnati Museum Center's partnership with Elevation Science will expand dinosaur fossil collection

 

Someone once said that being a paleontologist is like being a coroner, except that all the witnesses are dead and the evidence has been left out in the rain for 65 million years.

 

That’s a pretty good description of the work that goes on at the Cincinnati Museum Center’s Paleo Lab, where dinosaur hunters piece together a tooth, a claw, a jawbone, a skull fragment, and any other bits they’ve excavated to create replicas of the creatures that roamed the land millions of years ago.

 

The Museum Center is a federal repository for dinosaur bones, and its chief dinosaur hunter, Glenn Storrs, has spent years chipping away at rocks in Montana and other places out West searching for evidence that could further unravel the mysteries of the dinosaurs. Storrs is a paleontologist and the curator of the Museum Center’s research and public exhibits regarding dinosaurs and others of our long-extinct ancestors.

 

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https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2024/01/26/cincinnati-museum-center-paleo-lab-dinosaurs.html

 

Cincinnati Museum Center buys former Heidelberg campus for $15 million

 

The Cincinnati Museum Center’s invaluable trove of artifacts, treasures and specimens will soon have a new home in Queensgate.

 

The museum closed Friday, June 28 on the $15 million purchase of the former Heidelberg Distributing campus at 1518 Dalton St., CEO Elizabeth Pierce told the Business Courier.

 

Pierce described it as a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity given the campus' location next to Union Terminal.

 

Since it was founded in 1818, the museum has accumulated around 6 million items that tell the natural and cultural history of the Cincinnati region and the earth at large – everything from family heirlooms to fine art to archaeological relics to fossilized invertebrates. The collections are always growing, and the museum is constantly churning through them to improve access for researchers and curators and to better tell the stories that come to Union Terminal.

 

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https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2024/07/02/cincinnati-museum-center-buys-heidelberg.html

 

^ that property is huge.  Its something like 13 acres right adjacent to the museum center.  

Does this move the needle at all in turning Queensgate back into a proper neighborhood or finally living up to the promise of a job center? I am inclined to think that it's neither.

I don't think anything moves the needle even an inch (in the next 10 years) unless one of two happens:

1. Streetcar extension announced to CUT; CMC announces their intention to master plan their parking lots into a mixed-use development

2. Final plans are set, and development plots are created on the cap on the new I-75 at Ezzard Charles exit.

5 minutes ago, 10albersa said:

CMC announces their intention to master plan their parking lots into a mixed-use development

FWIW, the land is owned by the city so unless there's a rental agreement or easement given to CMC, the city would be the one to initiate development of those lots.

Union Terminal to host largest Auschwitz exhibition ever outside Europe

 

The largest collection outside Europe of artifacts from Auschwitz – the most notorious Nazi death camp – is coming to Cincinnati this fall.

 

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https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2025/01/27/auschwitz-exhibition-holocaust-union-terminal.html

 

Cincinnati Museum Center announces name of new $45M facility

The Cincinnati Museum Center’s planned $45 million expansion in a former Heidelberg Distributing facility in Queensgate will be named for the family that founded Heidelberg Distributing.

The facility on Dalton Avenue in Queensgate will be known as the Vontz Family Education, Research and Collections Center, following that family’s gift to the Museum Center’s capital campaign.

The Museum Center announced the name in a May 7 media release.

Al Vontz III, a two-time member of the Museum Center’s board of trustees, made the donation together with his wife, Margaret, and son, Albert IV.

The Museum Center said it has raised $15 million of the estimated $45 million required to transform the building.

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https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2025/05/07/museum-center-vontz-heidelberg-union-terminal.html