".....The Museum of Natural History & Science" is a place where you can walk through a glacier and step back 19,000 years into the Ice age. Explore a re-created limestone cave, underground waterfall, streams, fossils and a live bat colony, journey through pre-historic worlds and see giants from the past.
The interactive exhibits in the Museum of Natural History and Science are very hands on. Learn about the human body or trade fossils at the trading post. Investigate the Ohio Valley during the ice age, The exhibit that will keep you coming back is the cavern---a re-created limestone cave with trails and it's darkened passageways. As you crawl through the tight spaces, you will discover the underground waterfall as you stumble upon the bat chamber---with it's live bats.
The Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and Science is located at 1301 Western Avenue in Cincinnati Ohio 45203. The phone number is 513-287-7000 in The Union Terminal. Hours are 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Monday-Saturday, 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM Sunday. It is a beautiful place to visit and one in which we can become acquainted with what our origins in all of this earth and the stars are all about.
This Writer was very pleased with his visit in this museum and taking pictures which I was allowed to take, pictures that hopefully, will prove to be very informative for you. There are many good sites in so many of the displays of this Museum of Natural Science and History and this is a very educational museum to visit....
"The Union Terminal Rotunda's standard museum entry into the Museum of Natural History & Science as it was established in 1990"
The skeletal display of a pre-historic creature as you enter the museum
"Historical artifacts on display in Museum of Natural History & Science"
"Impressive displays in Museum of Natural History & Science"
"A display which has a study of past climate from which to learn"
"The cavern: A world without light as is explored by this pictured explorer"
"......Explore a simulated limestone cave modeled on caves found in the tri-state region of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky". The cave covers two levels and 500 feet of darkened passageways. The two levels are split into a beginners trail and an advanced trail. The beginners trail is wheel-chair accessible and provides lookout points to the lower advanced trail. Highlights of the advanced trail includes the waterfall, underground stream, formation chamber and the bat chamber, home to the museum's own big brown bat colony....
More Museum of Natural History & Science photos can be found in the Gallery Photos!
