MUSEUMS IN OHIO

1. Akron Art Museum- The Akron Art Museum features 20,000 square feet of gallery space dedicated to the display of its collection of art produced since 1850. The museum also hosts visiting shows from national and international collections.


• Akron Art Museum Collection: 1850-1950[2]


Art created between 1850 and 1950 graces the C. Blake McDowell, Jr. Galleries, located on the first floor of the museum’s 1899 Italian Renaissance revival style building. The first two rooms feature examples of turn-of-the-century realism and American impressionism. Two rooms explore modernism and regionalism in northeast Ohio from 1910 through 1950. A final room is dedicated entirely to the work of William Sommer, northeast Ohio’s most important historical artist. These galleries include paintings by Thomas Wilmer Dewing and Frederick C. Frieseke.


2. American Classical Music Hall of Fame and Museum- The American Classical Music Hall of Fame and Museum celebrates the individuals and institutions of the past and present that have made significant contributions to classical music. The hall of fame is located in Cincinnati Memorial Hall, next door to Music Hall in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati.

3. American Sign Museum- Founded in 1999 as the National Signs of the Times Museum, the American Sign Museum, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, preserves, archives, and displays a historical collection of signs in their many types and forms. The museum also displays the equipment utilized in the design and manufacture of signs, and profiles the people who have contributed to the industry. The museum is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation and is only open by appointment at the current time.

4. Children's Museum of Cleveland- The Children's Museum of Cleveland, in the University Circle area of Cleveland, Ohio, is dedicated to helping young children develop physically, emotionally, and socially. It also encourages adults to aid children in their development. One permanent exhibit, Splish! Splash!, is designed to teach children, through interactive displays, about water transportation.

5. Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum- The Armstrong Air and Space Museum is a museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio the hometown of Neil Armstrong, first man to set foot on the moon. The museum chronicles Ohio's contributions to the history of space flight. Among the items on display are an F5D Skylancer, the Gemini VIII spacecraft in which he flew, Apollo 11 artifacts and a moon rock. In the museum's Astro-theater, multimedia presentations of the sights and sounds of space unfold against a starry background.

The Armstrong Museum is located just west of I-75 at exit 111 (Bellefontaine Street) in Wapakoneta.

6. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center- The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a museum in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio based on the history of the Underground Railroad. The Center also pays tribute to all efforts to "abolish human enslavement and secure freedom for all people." Billed as part of a new group of "museums of conscience," along with the Museum of Tolerance, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Civil Rights Museum, the Center offers lessons on the struggle for freedom in the past, in the present, and for the future as it attempts to challenge visitors to contemplate the meaning of freedom in their own lives. Its location recognizes the significant role of Cincinnati, where thousands of slaves escaped to freedom by crossing the Ohio River, in the history of the Underground Railroad.

7. National Aviation Hall of Fame- The American National Aviation Hall of Fame is located at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, east Dayton, Ohio. It is open to the public. The Hall has inducted the following people, arranged in alphabetical order, with their year of induction in parentheses.

Buzz Aldrin (2000)
John R. Alison (2005)
William McPherson Allen (1971)
Frank M. Andrews (1986)
William Anders (2004)
Bud Anderson (2008)
Harry George Armstrong (1998)
Neil Alden Armstrong (1979)
Henry Harley Arnold (1967)
J. Leland Atwood (1984)
Bernt Balchen (1973)
Thomas Scott Baldwin (1964)
Lincoln Beachey (1966)
Olive Ann Beech (1981)
Walter Herschel Beech (1977)
Alexander Graham Bell (1965)
Lawrence Dale Bell (1977)
Giuseppe Mario Bellanca (1993)
Vincent Hugo Bendix (1991)
William Edward Boeing (1966)
Richard Bong (1986)
Frank Borman (1982)
Albert Boyd (1984)
Mark E. Bradley (1992)
George Scratchley Brown (1985)
Clayton J. Brukner (1997)
Richard Evelyn Byrd (1968)
Marion E. Carl (2001)
Eugene Cernan (2000)
Clyde Vernon Cessna (1978)
Clarence Duncan Chamberlin (1976)
Octave Chanute (1963)
Claire Lee Chennault (1972)
Jacqueline Cochran (1972)
Michael Collins (1985)
Bessie Coleman (2006)
Harry B. Combs (1996)
Charles Conrad (1980)
Laurence Craigie (2000)
Frederick C. Crawford (1993)
Scott Crossfield (1983)
Alfred Austell Cunningham (1965)
Glenn Hammond Curtiss (1964)
Herbert A. Dargue (1997)
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. (1994)
Alexander P. de Seversky (1970)
James Harold Doolittle (1967)
Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. (1969)
Charles Stark Draper (1981)
Ira Clarence Eaker (1970)
Amelia Earhart (1968)
Carl Benjamin Eielson (1985)
Theodore Gordon Ellyson (1964)
Eugene Burton Ely (1965)
Joe H. Engle (2001)
Frank K. Everest (1989)
Sherman Mills Fairchild (1979)
Rueben Hollis Fleet (1975)
Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker (1980)
Henry Ford (1984)
Joseph Jacob Foss (1984)
Steve Fossett (2007)
Benjamin Foulois (1963)
Betty Skelton Frankman (2005)
William John Frye (1992)
Fitzhugh Fulton (1999)
Francis Stanley Gabreski (1978)
Dominic S. Gentile (1995)
Robert R. Gilruth (1994)
John Herschel Glenn (1976)
George William Goddard (1976)
Robert Hutchings Goddard (1966)
Arthur Godfrey (1987)
Barry Morris Goldwater (1982)
Virgil I. Grissom (1987)
Robert Ellsworth Gross (1970)
Leroy Randle Grumman (1972)
Harry Frank Guggenheim (1971)
Daniel J. Haughton (1987)
Albert Francis Hegenberger (1976)
Edward Henry Heinemann (1981)
David Lee Hill (2006)
Robert A. Hoover (1988)
Howard Hughes (1973)
David Sinton Ingalls (1983)
Daniel James (1993)
Elrey Borge Jeppesen (1990)
Clarence Leonard Johnson (1974)
Alvin M. Johnston (1993)
Thomas V. Jones (1992)
Herbert D. Kelleher (2008)
George Churchill Kenney (1971)
Charles Franklin Kettering (1979)
James Howard Kindelberger (1972)
Joe W. Kittinger (1997)
A. Roy Knabenshue (1965)
William J. "Pete" Knight (1988)
Frank Purdy Lahm (1963)
Samuel Pierpont Langley (1963)
William Power Lear (1978)
Curtis Emerson LeMay (1972)
Anthony William LeVier (1978)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1979)
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1967)
Edwin Albert Link (1976)
Allan H. Lockheed (1986)
Grover Loening (1969)
Nancy Harkness Love (2005)
James Arthur Lovell (1998)
Raoul Gervais Lufbery (1998)
Frank Luke (1975)
Paul B. MacCready (1991)
John Arthur Macready (1968)
Glenn Luther Martin (1966)
David McCampbell (1996)
James Smith McDonnell (1977)
Thomas McGuire (2000)
John C. Meyer (1988)
William Mitchell (1966)
Marc A. Mitscher (1988)
William A. Moffett (2008)
John J. Montgomery (1964)
Thomas H. Moorer (1987)
Sanford Alexander Moss (1976)
Gerhard Neumann (1986)
Ruth Rowland Nichols (1992)
Carl L. Norden (1994)
John Knudsen Northrop (1974)
Robin Olds (2001)
Clyde Edward Pangborn (1995)
William Allan Patterson (1976)
Frank Piasecki (2002)
William Thomas Piper (1980)
Harold Frederick Pitcairn (1995)
Paul Poberezny (1999)
Wiley Hardeman Post (1969)
Harriet Quimby (2004)
Albert Cushing Read (1965)
Robert Campbell Reeve (1965)
Frederick Brant Rentschler (1982)
Ben Rich (2005)
Holden Chester Richardson (1978)
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker (1965)
Sally Ride (2007)
Jack Ridley (2004)
Cliff Robertson (2006)
Calbraith Perry Rodgers (1964)
Will Rogers (1977)
Robert A. Rushworth (1990)
Burt Rutan (1995)
Dick Rutan (2002)
T. Claude Ryan (1974)
Walter M. Schirra (1986)
Bernard Adolf Schriever (1980)
Thomas Etholen Selfridge (1965)
Alan Shepard (1977)
Igor Ivan Sikorsky (1968)
Robert Forman Six (1980)
Donald K. Slayton (1996)
C.R. Smith (1974)
Carl Andrew Spaatz (1967)
Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1973)
Lawrence Burst Sperry (1981)
Thomas P. Stafford (1997)
Robert M. Stanley (1990)
John Paul Stapp (1985)
Lloyd C. Stearman (1989)
James Stockdale (2002)
Charles Edward Taylor (1965)
Louise Thaden (1999)
Lowell Thomas (1992)
Paul W. Tibbets (1996)
John Henry Towers (1966)
Juan Terry Trippe (1970)
Sean D. Tucker (2008)
Roscoe Turner (1975)
Nathan Farragut Twining (1976)
Albert Lee Ueltschi (2001)
Hoyt S. Vandenberg (1991)
Wernher von Braun (1982)
Theodore von Kármán (1983)
Hans P. von Ohain (1990)
Chance M. Vought (1989)
Leigh Wade (1974)
Patty Wagstaff (2004)
Henry W. Walden (1964)
Edward Curtis Wells (1991)
Robert M. White (2006)
Sam Barlow Williams (1998)
Thornton Arnold Wilson (1983)
Collett Everman Woolman (1994)
Orville Wright (1962)
Wilbur Wright (1962)
Charles Elwood Yeager (1973)
John W. Young (1988)
Hubert Zemke (2002)

8. Pro Football Hall of Fame- The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame of the National Football League (NFL). It opened in Canton, Ohio, United States, on September 7, 1963 with 17 charter inductees.[1] Through 2008, all but one of the player inductees played some part of their pro career in the NFL (the lone exception is Buffalo Bills guard Billy Shaw, who played his entire career in the American Football League (AFL) prior to the 1970 AFL-NFL merger). The Chicago Bears have the most Hall of Famers in the league at 26.

9. National Museum of the United States Air Force- The National Museum of the United States Air Force (formerly the United States Air Force Museum) is the official National Museum of the United States Air Force and is located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio. The NMUSAF is the world's largest and oldest military aviation museum.[1] More than 400 aircraft and missiles are on display, most of them indoors. Admission is free.

10. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shores of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, and other people who have in some major way influenced the music industry, particularly in the area of rock and roll.