Announcements

Trains and LEGO blend holidays past and present Holiday Junction featuring Brickopolis

Once again, Union Terminal will be humming with the bustle of trains. But this holiday season steam power is giving way to tiny electric engines and the mighty steel horse is dwarfed by young children eager to take it all in. Cincinnati Museum Center's Holiday Junction featuring Brickopolis showcases an array of toy trains

Joy and merriment cover 12,000 square feet of Cincinnati Museum Center's special exhibition gallery, including train layouts and displays built with that ubiquitous childhood toy, the LEGO. Among the historic train layouts is a pre-World War II Lionel O gauge that gives a snapshot into the pastime of American children in the 1930s and 40s. As children of all ages share stories of holidays past, current children can take a ride through a winter wonderland on a riding train and visit Santa to tell them their holiday wish list.

Holiday Junction featuring Brickopolis opens November 10, 2017 at Cincinnati Museum Center. For more information visit www.cincymuseum.org/holiday.

Blog offers inside look at collections and preservation Off the Shelf

With millions of collection pieces at their fingertips, Cincinnati Museum Center's curators have more stories to tell than can fit on the museum floor. Off the Shelf is a tour inside the stacks of Cincinnati Museum Center, a closer look at the tools and techniques of preservation and research.

Cincinnati Museum Center's collections include Archaeology, Archives and Manuscripts, Ethnology, History Objects and Fine Art, Invertebrate Paleontology, Mineralogy, Moving Images and Sound Recordings, Photographs and Prints, Printed Works, Vertebrate Paleontology and Zoology. Join the curators as they pull items off the shelf and reveal the stories behind them.

Catch up with Off the Shelf at www.cincymuseum.org/blog.

Temporary Library Closure

The Cincinnati History Library & Archives at Cincinnati Museum Center is temporarily closed to the public to facilitate the restoration of historic Union Terminal. As a result, guests will be unable to visit the Cincinnati History Library but may still access the library's online catalog, digital journals and other local history resources at library.cincymuseum.org. Limited service via telephone and email are available, but the library will remain closed to the public throughout the duration of the restoration project.

We regret any inconvenience this may cause but hope that you will explore our online resources to support your research needs. We look forward to seeing you in the library again when the restoration project is completed. Please visit the library website at library.cincymuseum.org for updates and additional information.

The Abstract Art of G. Caliman Coxe at the Filson

From August 28th through December 15th the Filson Historical Society will host "Understanding the Indescribable: Paintings by G. Caliman Coxe." For nearly five decades, abstract painter Gloucester Caliman "G.C." Coxe (1907-1999) was a fixture of the Louisville art scene. The first African-American to receive a fine arts degree from the University of Louisville, Coxe worked and exhibited in a milieu of artists including Sam Gilliam, Ed Hamilton, and Fred Bond. Supporting himself as a sign painter and illustrator, he ceaselessly explored abstractions of color and form, and employed unusual methods and materials in his works.

In 2015 the Filson acquired three Coxe canvasses, which will be shown alongside works generously loaned for the exhibition by Ed Hamilton, Dr. Robert Douglas, and Warren and Julie Payne of Payne Fine Arts. Visit filsonhistorical.org/exhibits/for more information.