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Cincinnati History Museum

Cincinnati History Museum, a museum in Ohio
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Cincinnati History Museum, a museum in Ohio
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Cincinnati History Museum, a museum in Ohio
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Cincinnati History Museum, a museum in Ohio
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Cincinnati History Museum, a museum in Ohio
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Cincinnati History Museum, a museum in Ohio
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Cincinnati History Museum is a museum in Ohio, at a modelled elevation of 151 m. Rumpke Mountain stands 319 m to the north-northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away. Ohio River Scenic Byway passes 0.6 miles off. 32 named summits stand within 25 miles.

About

The story

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.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dates from 1990.

Wikidata Q5120264, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates39.10940, -84.53723

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Attractions
Artworks
Parks
Historic sites
Gardens: 60
Museums: 50
Nature reserves: 45
Peaks: 32
Picnic sites: 29
  • Area 23: 4.0 mi
  • Area 22, Furnas Hill: 4.0 mi
  • Area 26: 4.2 mi
  • Area 19, Stone Steps: 4.2 mi
  • Area 21: 4.3 mi
Rest areas: 3
Waterfalls: 2
  • Lower Buckeye Falls: 13.8 mi
  • Buckeye Falls: 13.9 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Beaches: 1
  • Hidden Valley Lake Beach: 16.5 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Cincinnati History Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Rumpke MountainNNW 344°319 m11.9 mi
New Trenton HillNW 307°287 m23.5 mi
Harrison HillWNW 299°284 m19.4 mi
Harrison HillWNW 301°279 m19.3 mi
Heitsmanns HillNNW 348°274 m21.0 mi
Snow HillNW 311°274 m23.2 mi
Whites HillWNW 299°273 m21.5 mi
Orchard HillS 177°268 m4.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4319:1519:50
June solstice06:1320:2821:08
September equinox07:2619:0219:37
December solstice07:5516:3717:19

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F303342546472757468564434
Precip in3.63.24.54.95.24.94.33.53.33.53.44.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cheviot, 6 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element node/438600478

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