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Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH

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Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati Museum Center is a museum in Cincinnati, OH. Cost: under $25.

1301 Western Ave · Cincinnati, OH

Why you should go…

Cincinnati Museum Center fills Union Terminal, an Art Deco station whose half-dome rotunda is the largest semi-dome in the Western Hemisphere. Museum admission covers the Cincinnati History Museum, the Museum of Natural History & Science and The Children's Museum. Inside you find a Dinosaur Hall and The Cave, a 500-foot limestone cavern replica modeled on Mammoth Cave. The OMNIMAX theater and the Holocaust & Humanity Center are ticketed separately.

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