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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

Last Chance for the Early Bird Discount – Today!

Countdown to the Early Bird Deadline – 20 March!

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By now you’ve heard about the Conference’s wonderful variety of top-notch speakers and lectures, special programs and workshops, tours and social events, and research opportunities nearby. Let’s consider the host city’s attractions, starting with museums within one mile from the Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati. Distances shown are from the Convention Center.

MUSEUMS

.4 mile: Cincinnati Fire Museum, commemorating the first professional fire department in the U.S.

.5 mile: Contemporary Arts Center, a non-collecting museum devoted to presenting contemporary art from around the world

.7 mile: Betts House, the oldest surviving brick house in Cincinnati (1804), interprets the built environment through exhibits on architecture, historic preservation, building trades and materials, and construction technologies

One mile: National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, telling the story of the struggle for freedom in the United States (free admission on the evening of 10 May during the Conference)

One mile: Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, National Historic Landmark containing the Cincinnati History Museum (9 May tour and dinner available during the Conference), Museum of Natural History and Science, and Children’s Museum

One mile: Taft Museum of Art, a Federal-style National Historic Landmark built about 1820, contains twelve rooms of displays including portraits and landscapes by Rembrandt, Turner, Gainsborough, Whistler and Corot, free admission on Sundays

One mile: Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum, the largest team hall of fame in all of baseball

For more information about the Conference events at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and the Cincinnati History Museum tour and dinner, visit this page.

Countdown to the Early Bird Deadline – 20 March!