Museum Center

Evidence of the Art Deco movement is all around you- behind the scenes.

We've been excited about taking Poppi and Nana to the Museum Center. It is a really great museum and there is always something new to see. The Museum Center is the old train depot, which has been turned into three museums- Duke Energy Children's Museum, Cincinnati History Museum and Museum of Natural History and Science. There are scavenger hunts, which the girls like to complete each time we are there and for compeleting it, they are awarded points, which can be redeemed for things like....fossils or rocks. Also, if we take in fossils or things we find in the stream, they are worth points. Once, Ainsley found a skull of something or other, which was worth some serious points. The girls also do a Secret Agent club, where they have to solve mysteries in the Cincinnati History Museum.

We have learned that there is lots of history to the Union Terminal building, but taking a behind the scene's tour really shed some light on how busy the train station was..... a long time ago.

My fav. part of the tour was seeing and having an appreciation for the Rookwood Ice Cream Parlor. Pretty wonderful seeing all that Rookwood still intact.

Wood inlay located in one of the offices from yester year.

Tile mosaics surround the entrance into the museum.