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Cincinnati Art Museum

Located in scenic Eden Park, the Cincinnati Art Museum, one of the oldest art
museums in the United States, features an unparalleled art collection of more
than 60,000 works spanning 6,000 years. In addition to displaying its own broad
collection, the Art Museum also hosts several national and international
travelling exhibitions each year. The Art Museum, which opened in the late 19th
century in May 1886, was heralded worldwide as “The Art Palace of the West.”

In addition to the art of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, there are extensive
galleries of Near and Far Eastern art, Native American and African art and
extensive galleries of furniture, glass, ceramics, silver, costumes and folk art. The
painting collection includes works by European old masters such as Titian, Van
Dyck, Hals, Rubens and Gainsborough, as well as 19th- and 20th-century works
by Renoir, Monet, Picasso, Braque, Modigliani, Miró and Chagall.   The
American collection holds works by Copley, Cole, Harnett, Wyeth, Wood, Hopper,
Diebenkorn and Rothko, as well as major artists from the 1970s and 1980s. Areas
of special strength include the only collection of ancient Nabataean art outside of
Jordan, the renowned Herbert Greer French collection of old master prints, and a
fine collection of European and American portrait miniatures.

Ranked 'Top Art Museum for Families' by Parenting magazine, the museum
offers public tours and educational activities for all ages.

Open six days a week, general admission to the Art Museum is always free for all ,
making greater Cincinnati’s most treasured cultural asset accessible to everyone.

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Posted November 2012