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List of museums in Ohio

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List of museums in Ohio

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. Also included area non-profit and university art galleries. Defunct museums are listed in a separate section.

Contents

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.

Main list

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Defunct museums

  • American Gas Pump Heaven, Dover, closed in 2016
  • America’s Ice Cream & Dairy Museum, Medina, closed in 2010
  • Cleveland Health Museum, AKA HealthSpace Cleveland, merged in 2007 with the Cleveland Museum of Natural History
  • Degenhart Paperweight and Glass Museum, Cambridge, closed in 2011, portion of the collection relocated to the Museum of American Glass located in Weston, WV
  • Hauck House Museum, Cincinnati, no longer open as a museum
  • Inland Seas Maritime Museum, Vermilion, closed in 2012 in as the Great Lakes Historical Society prepares to open the National Museum of the Great Lakes in Toledo, Ohio in 2013
  • Lake Shore Electric Railway
  • Little Italy Heritage Museum, closed in 2007
  • National Cartoon Museum
  • National Inventors Hall of Fame, Akron, moved to Alexandria, Virginia
  • Sara Rose Museum, Sabina
  • Trapshooting Hall of Fame & Museum, Vandalia, moved to Sparta, Illinois, website
  • Viets House Museum, Cortland, formerly operated by the Cortland-Bazetta Historical Society, closed in 2011
  • USS Radford National Naval Museum, Newcomerstown, closed in 2011, contents now at the USS Orlect Naval Museum in Lake Charles, Louisiana
  • Western Reserve Model Railroad Museum, Mentor, closed in 2011

    • Regions

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

  • Central — including Columbus
  • Northeast — including Cleveland
  • Northwest — including Toledo
  • Southeast
  • Southwest — including Cincinnati & Dayton

    • References

    List of museums in Ohio Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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