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MUSEUMS, PART 2

Continuing with Cincinnati museums and their distance from the Duke Energy Convention Center:

Two miles: Cincinnati Art Museum, founded in 1881 and the largest in Ohio, showcases more than 60,000 works spanning 6,000 years, free admission six days a week. The Cincinnati Wing is the first permanent display of a city’s art history in the nation.

Two miles: John Hauck House, ornate Italianate townhouse of a prominent brewer, restored and furnished in period, open Fri 12-3 and 4th Sun 12-3, 812 Dayton St., 513-561-8842

Two miles: William Howard Taft National Historic Site, Greek Revival boyhood home of the 27th president, restored to its original appearance, with exhibits about Taft’s career and family

Two miles: Greater Cincinnati Police Museum, history and artifacts of more than 100 local municipal, county, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, free admission

Three miles: Harriet Beecher Stowe House, historical and cultural site focusing on the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin and her activist family

Ten miles: German Heritage Museum, in an 1840s two-story log house, the repository of historical artifacts and records of German immigrants and their descendants in Cincinnati and the Ohio Valley

Fourteen miles: Christian Waldschmidt Homestead and Camp Dennison Civil War Museum, a restored, furnished stone house built in 1804 and an outstanding collection of Civil War artifacts including many pieces from Ohio soldiers

Twenty miles: Heritage Village Museum, a living history museum depicting nineteenth-century life in southwestern Ohio in a dozen historic buildings saved from destruction

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