List of museums in Ohio

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This list of museums in Ohio is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace or on the Internet (i.e., virtual museums) are not included. Defunct museums are listed in a separate section.

To use the sortable table, click on the icons at the top of each column to sort that column in alphabetical order; click again for reverse alphabetical order. An explanation of the regions column, based on regions used by the Ohio Museum Association, is in a separate section below the table.

Name Town/City Region Type Summary
Akron Art Museum Akron Northeast Art
Allen County Museum Lima Northwest
Allen Memorial Art Museum Oberlin Northeast Art
American Classical Music Hall of Fame and Museum Cincinnati Southwest Hall of fame - Music - Classical
American Sign Museum Cincinnati Southwest
Betts House Cincinnati Southwest
Canton Museum of Art Canton Northeast Art
Carillon Park Dayton Southwest
Children's Museum of Cleveland Cleveland Northeast Children's
Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati Southwest Art
Cincinnati Fire Museum Cincinnati Southwest Fire
Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal Cincinnati Southwest
Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum Cincinnati Southwest Hall of fame - Sports
Cinergy Children's Museum Cincinnati Southwest Children's
Clark County Heritage Center Springfield Central
Cleveland Health Museum Cleveland Northeast Medical
Cleveland Hungarian Heritage Society Museum Cleveland Northeast Ethnic - Hungarian American
Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland Northeast Art
Cleveland Museum of Natural History Cleveland Northeast Natural history
Cleveland Police Historical Society Museum Cleveland Northeast
COSI Columbus Columbus Central
Columbus Museum of Art Columbus Central Art
Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum Cleveland Northeast Transportation - Automobile / Aviation
Decorative Arts Center of Ohio Lancaster Central
Dunham Tavern Museum Cleveland Northeast Historic building
Finnish Heritage Museum Fairport Harbor Northeast Ethnic - Finnish American
The Georgian Lancaster Central
German Heritage Museum Cincinnati Southwest Ethnic - German American
Great Lakes Science Center Cleveland Northeast
The Greater Cincinnati Police Historical Society Museum Cincinnati Southwest Police
Harriet Beecher Stowe House Cincinnati Southwest Historic house
Hauck House Museum Cincinnati Southwest Historic house
Inland Seas Maritime Museum Vermilion Northeast Maritime
Kennedy Museum of Art Athens Southeast Art
Little Italy Historical Museum Cleveland Northeast
Lloyd Library and Museum Cincinnati Southwest
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage Beachwood Northeast Ethnic - Jewish
Motorcycle Hall of Fame Pickerington Central Hall of fame - Transportation - Motorcycle
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland Cleveland Northeast Art - Contemporary
National Inventors Hall of Fame Akron Northeast Hall of fame - Inventors
National Sign of the Times Museum Cincinnati Southwest
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Cincinnati Southwest History
National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB Dayton Southwest Military
National Aviation Hall of Fame Dayton Southwest Hall of fame - Aviation - Military hosted within the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB
Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum Wapakoneta Northwest Aerospace
Patterson Homestead Dayton Southwest
Polka Hall of Fame Euclid Northeast Hall of fame - Dance - Polka
Pro Football Hall of Fame Canton Northeast Hall of fame - Sports - Football
Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati Cincinnati Southwest Railroad
Richard M. Ross Art Museum at Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware Central Art museum
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Cleveland Northeast Hall of fame - Music - Rock 'n' Roll
Shaker Museum Shaker Heights Northeast
Soldiers and Sailors Monument Cleveland Northeast
Springfield Museum of Art Springfield Central Art
Steamship William G. Mather Maritime Museum Cleveland Northeast Museum ship
Taft Museum of Art Cincinnati Southwest Art
Toledo Museum of Art Toledo Northwest Art
Toy Museum Bellaire Southeast Toy
Ukrainian Museum-Archives Cleveland Northeast Ethnic - Ukrainian American
USS Cod (SS-224) Cleveland Northeast Museum ship - Military
Western Reserve Historical Society Cleveland Northeast History
Wexner Center for the Arts Columbus Central
William T. Sherman Boyhood Home Lancaster Central Historic house
William Howard Taft National Historic Site Cincinnati Southwest
Zane Grey-National Road Museum Norwich Southeast

Contents

[edit] Defunct museums

[edit] Regions

The regional column in the table features designations used by the Ohio Museum Association:

  • Northwest — including Toledo
  • Southeast

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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