American Indian History
This location hosted Ohio’s largest identified pre-European workshops, producing items for export all the way to Kansas City, Louisiana, and the East Coast.
What is Flint Ridge Ancient Quarries and Nature Preserve?
Founded in New York in 1966, this spooky museum relocated to Cleveland in 2018 and holds a collection of over 500 artifacts related to folklore and the supernatural.
What is the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick?
This museum to aviation and astronomy is located in the hometown of the first human to set foot on the Moon.
What is Armstrong Air & Space Museum?
This museum, dedicated to the history of abolition and resistance by enslaved people, is one of several Ohio museums declared as “national” by an act of Congress.
What is the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center?
Operated by the Western Reserve Historical Society, this living history museum explores the story of a Connecticut farmer who migrated to Ohio in 1810
What is Hale Farm and Village?
Despite persistent claims of ancient aliens, scholars believe the world’s largest effigy mound was built by humans for a ritual purpose, and was used by several successive cultures
What is Serpent Mound?
This museum was founded in Alliance, OH in 2011 by the Cat Fanciers' Association, and features a wide-ranging collection of fine art, artifacts, and literature.
What is the Feline Historical Museum?
This historic house museum’s famous resident was born in Milan, OH in 1847, though his inventions brightened it up before his family reacquired it in 1894.
What is the Thomas Alva Edison Birthplace?
Plans for this "National" museum started in 1915 when black Union Army veterans met in DC and discussed a monument to various African American achievements. In 1981, the US Congress finally approved its creation
What is the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center?
This oldest free & public museum in the state was founded in 1893 to share the collections of OSU’s geology department and was named after their notable professor who was also the first University President.
What is the Orton Geological Museum?
Though the largest enclosed hilltop in the United States was originally assumed to be a defensive structure, archaeologists now consider this to be a ritual or community site
What is Fort Ancient?
This Pickerington museum focuses on two-wheeled powered transportation and famous drivers
What is the American Motorcyclist Association Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum?
This famous alliterative society was founded in Dr. Bob Smith’s Home in Akron in 1935.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s visit to this Ohio abolitionist’s home, visible from Kentucky, helped inspire some of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. An estimated 2000 enslaved people passed through here during their escapes.
What is the John Rankin House?
At the opening of this public astronomical institution in 1845, it housed the largest refracting telescope in the Western Hemisphere, the third largest in the world.
What is the Cincinnati Observatory?
The architecture of this forthcoming State Park museum pays tribute to traditional Shawnee longhouses and will honor the legacy of Tecumseh and the Shawnee people.
What is the Great Council State Park?
This museum in Alliance claims to have the world's largest collection of Troll dolls, but they explore trolls through mythology as well as toys.
What is the Troll Hole Museum?
This temple, dedicated in 1836, was the first temple built by early Mormons and is still operated by the second largest Latter Day Saint denomination.
What is the Kirtland Temple?
This Cincinnati museum, founded in 1913, is the first formally established Jewish museum in the United States.
What is the Cincinnati Skirball Museum?
In 2021, this Northeast Ohio museum hosted the “Forever Chanel” exhibit, exploring the fashions of famous designers Coco Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld.
What is the Kent State University Fashion Museum?
This site was home to pacifist Moravian Christian American Indians, 96 of whom were martyred by Pennsylvania militiamen in 1782.
What is Gnadenhutten Historical Park and Museum?
This music hall of fame, dedicated to a very specific genre of music, is located in Euclid, OH.
What is the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame?
Founded in 1919, this was the first art museum in the United States to be dedicated exclusively to American art.
What is The Butler Institute of Art?
The lyricist of the first all-African-American musical on Broadway (In Dahomey) lived in this Dayton historic house with his mother for the final years of his life from 1904-1906.
What is the Paul Laurence Dunbar House?
Original artifacts and documents from the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment are among the highlights of this recently established museum.
What is the National Museum of Psychology OR Cummings Center for the History of Psychology?