CMC partnered with Scene Savers in Covington, Kentucky, to digitize 53 rare Moving Image assets including master copies of WLW’s Midwestern Hayride, a pilot episode of “On the Money,” a newlywed themed gameshow hosted by Bob Braun from the 1970s.
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Through the Lens: Sharing the Formative Years of The Cincinnati Ballet with Photographs from Sandy Underwood
Incredible photos from The Cincinnati Ballet, now a part of CMC’s Photographs, Prints and Media archives.
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The Washington March Special: Cincinnati Marches on Washington
Cincinnati Museum Center is fortunate enough to care for and permanently house a rare collection of original Cincinnati radio transcription discs from local radio stations, including the well-known WLW-WSAI Broadcasting Corporation. Keep reading to find out more about this rare piece of history!
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Cincinnati Museum Center and the Cincinnati Zoo Team Up to Evaluate Population Recovery of Cumberland Sandwort
Learn how conservation techniques have been used to produce a supplemental outplanting of the rare Cumberland Sandwort! The Cumberland Sandwort is an herbaceous perennial known to occur exclusively in the Cumberland Plateau of southern Kentucky and northern Tennessee.
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Voices of Cincinnati’s Past – Digitizing Cincinnati Museum Center’s Rare Radio Show Collection
Cincinnati Museum Center is fortunate enough to care for and permanently house a rare collection of original Cincinnati radio transcription discs from local radio stations, including the well-known WLW-WSAI Broadcasting Corporation. Keep reading to find out more about this rare piece of history!
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Growing through Ohio History Day
Ohio History Day inspired me, opened me up to opportunities and challenged me in ways I never would have thought possible. The experience has been transformative and has illuminated passions I likely would never have discovered otherwise. Thank you, Ohio History Day!
Cincinnati Museum Center is proud to organize and host Ohio History Day’s Region 8 competition for Adams, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton, Highland and Warren counties.
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Going Batty in Cincinnati
Big brown bats are just one of over 1,400 bat species found all over the world, some of which call Cincinnati Museum Center home. Keep reading to learn more about these denizens of the dark.
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Clovernook and the Trader Sisters
The Trader sisters worked to help blind and visually impaired people live an independent life in their own homes. Read more to learn how they did it!
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Fashion Frocks
Philip M. Meyers started working for his father’s Princess Garment Company in 1922. He left in 1925 to found his own company, Fashion Frocks, Inc., a garment manufacturer that directly sold to consumers.
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Super-Volunteer: Minnie “Dolly” Varley
Minnie “Dolly” Anson was born on June 25, 1904 in England. Inspired by her own mother, who was a long-time volunteer for the Red Cross, Dolly joined the Junior Red Cross while living in Australia.
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