Cincinnati Museum Center Collection Making Moves
Keen eyes may have seen some massive mammoths at the Reds Opening Day Parade! This exciting happening kicked off a mammoth move, literally. The Cincinnati Museum Center’s (CMC) collection of four wooly mammoths are moving from their most recent home, outside of the Geier Collections and Research Center, to right next to the museum center at 1518 Dalton Avenue. The mammoths will mark the new home of CMC’s collections, the Treasure Facility, which includes over six million artifacts! The new, state-of-the-art 200,000-square-foot facility will undergo renovations through 2027 and once complete will span 11 acres and house education, research and collections initiatives. Stay in-the-know by visiting cincymuseum.org.
More on this mammoth move!
The Vontz Family Education, Research and Collections Center will house many of CMC’s collections.
Per Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC):
CMC cares for over six million historic artifacts and scientific specimens cataloged into over a dozen collections, including both vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology, zoology, mineralogy, archaeology, history objects, fine art, manuscripts, moving images and photographs. Among those treasures, CMC boasts the world’s largest and finest collection of Ordovician fossils from over 420 million years ago, the world’s largest collection of sauropod dinosaur skulls – both critical to ongoing scientific research – and the most complete collection of photographs from Cincinnati-based Black photographer and abolitionist J.P. Ball. The region’s treasures within CMC’s collections include objects with national and global significance, including a July 9, 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence known as the Holt Broadside – one of only five surviving copies – and the remains of the last living great auk. From local students to international researchers, local genealogists to amateur historians, CMC receives over 1,000 research visits each year with another 8,000 online collections portal searches. Dozens of collections items are loaned out each year to museums across the globe, demonstrating the global impact of Cincinnati’s local stories.
The Vontz Family has hired SmithGroup to make designs turn to construction and conclude in a finished product in late 2027.
Additional funds are being raised for this project. Those interested in making a donating can visit supportcmc.org
