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Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati

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Housed in a working train station, Cincinnati Museum Center boasts several museums, an Omnimax theater, a library, and travelling exhibitions throughout the year. Cincinnati Union Terminal was a major railroad center in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today the station is only serves the thrice-weekly Cardinal. Spend time admiring the grand Art Deco building, considered to be a symbol of the city, before popping into a few of the museums. You can learn about Cincinnati at the city's history museum or discover interesting facts about the world and beyond at the natural history and science museum. If you are travelling with kids, don't miss the children's museum. Check the lobby kiosk for the terminal's free guided tour schedule. With our online itinerary creator, Cincinnati attractions like Cincinnati Museum Center can be center stage of your vacation plans, and you can find out about other attractions like it, unlike it, near it, and miles away.
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Cincinnati Museum Center reviews

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  • Cool museums situated on multiple levels in an old train station. The building itself is gorgeous, but the museums are pretty impressive too! My kids (7 and 11 years old) had a great time, even... 
    Cool museums situated on multiple levels in an old train station. The building itself is gorgeous, but the museums are pretty impressive too! My kids (7 and 11 years old) had a great time, even...  more »
  • There are several museums within this center. I visited the history museum which was interesting. There was also a natural history museum I saw which was different from what I expected as it had a.....  more
    There are several museums within this center. I visited the history museum which was interesting. There was also a natural history museum I saw which was different from what I expected as it had a.....  more »
  • Stopped here and did a couple of the things here. Great help at the front desk. They allowed us to buy tickets 1 venue at a time and then come back for a discount for added venue tickets based on the....  more
    Stopped here and did a couple of the things here. Great help at the front desk. They allowed us to buy tickets 1 venue at a time and then come back for a discount for added venue tickets based on the....  more »
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  • Such a beautiful museum inside & out! Absolutely loved our time here with the family! So much to see, learn, and experience. We really enjoyed all the exhibits and seeing all the uniqueness that this museum has to offer! We went on a busy weekend day, but it was still a wonderful experience and it didn’t feel crowded due to the sheer size of the place. We really enjoyed our time, and would recommend anyone in the area makes the time to go and experience it themselves!
  • We went here for the wedding reception of my wife’s cousin. What a place for it! We had a great time and especially enjoyed the museum being open during cocktail time. The kids got to run around and play on the mechanical exhibits and one of my daughters and I got lost in the Ice Age. There were some amazing and well-put-together visuals for adults and kids. As for the wedding reception itself, the place was beautiful, spacious, and very clean and modern. It was a wonderful place to celebrate a wedding.
  • Came here with my 22 mo old and my 3.5 year old. Was nervous that they would find any of it interesting and was pleasantly surprised. They LOVED it. The Children’s Museum is excellent. The Art Deco architecture is world class. It’s a really fun place and I’m glad we spent our afternoon here. We had a little over 2 hours and had to run through the last bit. I wish we’d of had more time because our boys were obsessed.
  • This is a favorite place of mine and well worth the trip if in Cincy or if you’re really into trains or just buildings in general. It is the largest half dome in the Northern hemisphere and second largest in world. This place is simply amazing. Right now they have an exhibit about Cincinnati inventions that was really cool. I was hoping the Cave would have been open but it was not. I used to go into the old museum cave as a kid and it was really cool. I highly recommend taking the free tour of the rotunda.
  • Went with family. Kids loved the childrens museum area. It has some museum exhibits mixed in with the playground/science type attractions. The natural history area was nicely done and interesting. Medium in size, taking about 2-3 hours to go through. The history section to the south is more focussed on the local city itself and space is about taken up by a gigantic scale model with lights, trains, etc. Fun but short. Overall it was a good full day for a very reasonable cost

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