CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go (2024)

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We just didn’t have enough time! I was impressed with the collection and the facility itself. We have been to museums throughout Europe and the Cincinnati Art Museum compared favorably to those. Easy to navigate.

We tried out the Art Climb that was recently installed. We parked at the bottom along the free street parking and walked up. Others were jogging up it as part of their work out route. Not much art installed yet on the way up… only some nice benches to eat your lunch. At the top, several beautiful and unusual sculptures, some on loan from the Pyramid Hill Sculpture Garden. A great, family, outdoor COVID-friendly activity for kids 7+ .

We have a membership here for a reason. The price is reasonable and we love this museum in beautiful Eden Park. The special exhibits are well worth going to. Plus the permanent collection is very good. It’s a great place to spend a few hours seeing the priceless collection of art and sculpture that’s only an hour and a half from Louisville. The staff is always friendly and helpful.

One of those excellent free art museums of the USA. We have seen better though, but still great. The Renoir is fantastic.

In my younger days I would spend Saturdays in Eden Park and each week I'd step into the Cincinnati Art Museum and spend some time with just a few paintings. That's supposed to be the best way to develop some depth of understanding for works of art, if you go through the entire museum and look at everything you tend to remember only a few.

I hadn't been back in ove3r 20 years, so this visit was meeting an old friend that you'd moved away from.

The finest thing about this museum, despite its excellent collection, is that's it's free. Now, I've been at the Tate and the Met and other free museums where it's free but you're constantly met with pleas/expectations that you'll donate (and OK, I have). Here, you see a couple of membership promotions, and that's it--the devotion is to the arts.

The changes over the past decades are intriguing. The curators seem to have a slightly different vision than many art museums, arranging works historically in many galleries but thematically in others. I think it lends insight.

On this visit there were renovations underway and so several galleries were closed. I did not see one of my favorite exhibits, their antique musical instruments. I suppose I'll need to get back more often,

I've never appreciated art, in any form. But, my husband likes it. So, I come here to get some walking inside and he gets his art fix. There are a LOT of rooms with different periods and styles of art, so there is something for everyone.

Having visited this wonderful art museum, we drove in from 4 hours away to see the Monuments Men exhibition! First we explored the museum campus, enjoying the outdoor sculptures by Mark di Suvero, Jim Dine and others, and walking the new Art Climb...a nice outdoor art experience. Inside we started with the Monuments Men exhibit and found the story of Walter Farmer enlightening and interesting; happy to see the Botticelli and other paintings from the Berlin Museum! We spent probably three more hours wandering through the museum to see their Tiffany glass collection, the American Paintings: The 80s Revisited exhibit, and American and European galleries with so many known artists represented. We ended our visit with a gallery of the works of local artist Frank Duveneck. Spectacular! Sorry we missed the big exhibition earlier this year! In recent years, drove down to see the Tiffany and the Paris 1900 exhibitions. Will keep an eye on CAM special exhibitions for future visits!!

As out-of-towners with an afternoon to spend, we chose this museum. There is plenty of convenient parking and full handicap accessibility. We couldn't believe there was no admission charge! There are two+ floors of exhibits. We spent most of our time on the main floor and enjoyed the attention to local and historical works related to Cincinnati. The pieces are well labeled with helpful and interesting descriptions.

We skimmed the second floor but decided we were on sensory overload. This museum deserves at least two visits as there is so much on each floor that a one day visitor can scarcely take it in.

An added bonus is the cafe. Better than most museums, it is a great place for lunch. They had delicious sandwiches and desserts at a moderate price. There is both indoor and outdoor seating.

I would say this is a MUST for visitors to this city.

I visit the Art Museum often. It frequently has excellent traveling exhibits. The museum's own collection of works centers on local artists, who are mostly undistinguished. There is a wide selection of pieces of more historic than artistic value, going back thousands of years. It would be nice to see even a small collection of work with more artistic merit, but that doesn't seem to be the museum's focus.

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