About Cincinnati History Museum

The Cincinnati History Museum is an urban history museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It opened in 1990 at the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal.

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 in the 1940s featuring working streetcars.

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Founded
1990

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