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The museum was founded in 1987 by Warren E. Motts in his family home. [1] [2] However, by 1995, the museum announced plans to move to a new location with a 3,500 sq ft (330 m 2) building. [3] After initially attempting to purchase and move Eddie Rickenbacker's Home to the museum in 1996, the museum constructed a replica four years later. [4]
This list of museums in Ohio is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
On July 11 and 12, 2014, 160 vehicles of the Littlefield collection were auctioned off to fund the creation of a new museum to display the collection. [4] The American Heritage Museum at the Collings Foundation headquarters in Stow, Massachusetts , had its grand opening in May 2019 and displays over 85 vehicles of the Littlefield collection.
The museum primarily exhibits the Pizzuti family's collection, estimated in 2018 at about 2,400 works of contemporary art. [1] The three-story Pizzuti Collection building in the Short North was built in the 1920s and has 18,000 square feet (1,700 m 2). [1] [2] The museum displays temporary rotating exhibits of international artists. [2]
Kelton House Museum and Garden: Downtown Historic house: Showcases Victorian life and the history of the Underground Railroad: Museum of Biological Diversity Ohio State University campus Natural history Teaching collection, including insects, crustacea, fishes, molluscs, animal and plant specimens [8] Museum of Classical Archaeology
The Wheatcroft Collection is perhaps notable for having a number of rare Second World War-era German military vehicles, including four Panther tanks, [9] one of which is close to full restoration, a StuG III assault gun, a Panzer III, and a Panzer IV tank and various components from many other vehicles.
The former Franklin County Veterans Memorial in 2005. The current museum occupies the same location. The site along the west side of the Scioto River near the Discovery Bridge on Broad Street was originally home to the Franklin County Veterans Memorial, [3] which originally opened in 1955 [4] and was demolished to make way for the museum in early 2015, [5] by S.G. Loewendick & Sons. [6]
The Panther II is a German tank design of the Second World War based on the design of the original Panther tank. It had slightly thicker armour than the Panther and adopted some standardised components from the Tiger II tank design. [1] [a] The Panther II did not progress beyond prototypes and did not enter production.