Cincinnati Museum Center

Step back into your childhood and join us on a six-decade evolution and the making of a global phenomenon. Barbie?: A Cultural Icon Exhibition – opening April 4, 2025 – takes you from 1959 to present day, examining how pop culture and fashion trends have shaped this global phenomenon. The exhibition celebrates Barbie as a reflection of culture, featuring a priceless collection of over 300 artifacts from the 66-year history of Barbie, including the very first 1959 doll, an original Barbie? Dreamhouse, behind the scenes prototypes, as well as some of the most infamous Barbie dolls throughout history. You’ll also find numerous photo ops throughout the exhibition for shareable moments. To purchase tickets, the Premium Dream Package or for more information about this new featured exhibition, visit https://lnkd.in/gNcFiW8X Barbie?: A Cultural Icon is curated and toured by Illusion Projects Inc., curated by Karan Feder, in partnership with Mattel Inc.

HELP! We need your opinion! We’re trying to get a read on what summer camp themes you would be interested in having your kiddo attend next year, so we’ve created this survey to help us figure it out. Whether your kiddo has spent time in our camps before or you’re hopeful to get them a spot in 2025, we want to hear from you. Visit https://lnkd.in/g2s4ffyG to give us your thoughts. Thank you!

In celebration of what would have been his 100th birthday tomorrow, this Saturday, November 16, we’re hosting a full day of nature-inspired art activities to remember the late wildlife artist John A. Ruthven. In 1934, a 10-year-old Ruthven walked into the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History – now the Museum of Natural History & Science (MNHS) – clutching a small hummingbird he intended to donate to the museum’s collections. This became a trend throughout his life as he helped bring thousands of specimens into the museum’s collections, building a rich and robust natural catalog. Here's our Saturday rundown: ?? No birthday is complete without a sweet treat! We’ll be making liquid nitrogen ice cream from 11 a.m. to Noon in the Cr(eat)e Culinary Studio featuring the Kroger Food Lab ?? Aspiring Artists: Nature Imprints with Sarah Kent from Noon to 5 p.m. in KIDSpace Join artist Sarah Kent in The Children’s Museum as she shares her love of preserving nature through imprints using clay and natural materials. ?? Animal Pictionary at 2:30 p.m. on the Science Stage in MNHS Play a game of drawing and guessing animals, then stick around to learn about Ruthven’s contributions to our collections. ?? Laser Craze: Animal Ornaments from 3 to 4 p.m. in our History in the Making Classroom Join us in the Cincinnati History Museum as we use a laser to carve beautiful animal ornaments and customize them with a marbling technique. All celebration activities are included with admission and free for museum Members.

Good golly, Union Terminal is gorgeous. ?? Wishing you a great rest of the week from our 1933 icon. Today’s Terminal Tuesday comes from Kara Driscoll on Instagram: https://lnkd.in/gG_KpmT9

We’ve just been focused on a few things to surprise and delight… award-winning time lapse captures the essence of it. THANK YOU! Join us, renew us, visit us again soon. ????

You’d think that after seeing this place almost daily for years that it would start to lose its sparkle, but no, #UnionTerminal is always a wonder to behold. This week’s #TerminalTuesday comes from Cynthia van Golen on Instagram: https://lnkd.in/g-wJ9GMb

Sharing new OMNIMAX? films in our domed theater is always exciting for us, but we're especially stoked about T. REX - now playing, by the way - because our very own Paleontology team is featured IN THE FILM! While guests enjoy the lush sights of Laramidia in the Late Cretaceous period and get info nuggets about the Greatest Of All Tyrants, they'll also get to meet Glenn Storrs, our Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and Associate Vice President of Science and Research, and catch a glimpse of our Dinosaur Hall and Paleo Lab. We are always so proud of the work our people are doing so it's extra fun when they get featured in big projects like this. Way to go, Glenn! Visit https://bit.ly/3Ul44gp to learn more about the film and get your tickets.

Happy #TerminalTuesday! Our social media person took this photo of our gorgeous icon on their way into work a few weeks ago.

We’re celebrating #ArchivesMonth, and what better way to start us off than by sharing this homerun clip of Pete Rose, the Hit King himself, on Opening Day at Crosley Field in 1969? #FunFindsFriday Visit https://lnkd.in/gvCeFeZd to view the full clip on our YouTube channel. As part of our celebration this month, we’re hosting a FREE Mini-Film Festival in the historic Newsreel Theater on Saturday, October 26 from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Featured selections will include moving image clips from our Collections of the Melody Showcase, Midwestern Hayride, Soul Street and more. Many of the clips have not been viewed since their original showcase and most will be shared publicly for the first time in decades! Video file - Home_run_Clip_w_Captions_SM_Crosley_Field_MI_93_40: Opening Day at Crosley Field, 1969 shows the Reds going up against the LA Dodgers. This brief snippet features the cityscape of 1960s Cincinnati and a stellar homerun by Pete Rose. #PeteRose #Reds #Baseball #MLB

How about this cinematic beauty for #TerminalTuesday? ?? This image of our 1933 icon comes from Sascha on Instagram: https://lnkd.in/gTGhKjmg