I was lucky enough to go there twice during my recent trip, including a day with my brothers George and Ed.
The Natural History Museum’s Ice Age exhibit was just awesome. I didn’t know it existed, but it very much reminded my of my one experience inside a glacial ice cave. To think this ice sheet covered all the way to the Cincinnati area just 15k years ago is remarkable.
And then there is the Space Exhibit. The kids are seated on one of the “screens” in the round video room. Pretty cool. Perhaps the most moving moment for me was seeing the “Snoopy Cap” that Neil Armstrong used to utter his “One small step for man…” statement from inside his spacesuit. (see photo). Again, I had no idea this item was there.
We also enjoyed the Cincinnati History museum. The array of scale models of the city during the 1940’s are just amazing, including moving trains, inclines, streetcars, and the evolving day/night cycles. I was born in 1961 and lived near downtown for most of the first decade of my life, so this is very much how the city looked back then. Delightfully nostalgic.
