National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
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Travel Guide to Cincinnati, Ohio 1.0
MicahMicah
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Your Ultimate Guide to a Day Trip in Cincinnati
CathleenCathleen
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Travelogue of the Queen City (Part 2)
VanessaVanessa
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What an experience of the history of America. We were planning to visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). However, since we want just a short weekend trip we decide to visit this museum just a hour and a half away. After spending some time trying to find parking, we finally found a vacant space on the street for $2.75 until 6:00 pm. In the museum information, it says there is a parking garage below the museum, accessible from Race Street. We rode through twice without seeing a garage entrance anywhere. Nevertheless, we spent about 3 hours in the museum with most of that time spent on the third and second floor respectively. There was so much to take in about a time in history that American history books refused to record and still try to suppress today. This museum was impressive in that it covered people of every nation and ethnicity who have ever been enslaved, even those enslaved today, sadly. This was the detailed history that America seemly forgot to included in the history books. And, yes, this does change the way you view those called great presidents and great leaders. It was empowering to know that many of my ancestors would rather to have died than to become a servant or a slave. Many of them were princes and princesses coming from families of great wealth in Africa who were sold as slave in America. Since we had planned our Sunday visit, making lunch reservations, we could spend only hours here. Of course, we could not return on Monday because the museum is closed. But on our next visit, we will spend more time here because there is more to take in than you can absorb in 3 hours. If you go, my only recommendation for visiting is that you pre-plan to park. I suspect those street parking spaces are most likely taken during the working week. My expectations for parking was flawed in that I expected clear direction to a public parking garages around the museum. After the fact, we found the parking garage recommended by the museum a block to the east on Race Street.
CarlCarl
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I visited from south central Pennsylvania on a solo trip. The parking garage for the museum (check their website, they suggest the best garage) was great and gave me no bad vibes like the one I had to park in for my hotel... I had came to the city for a traveling Titanic Exhibition on the same city block as Carew Tower, but when I was searching for things to do in the city, this came up. So I did this Sunday, and the Titanic Exhibit on Monday. They do allow you to leave for lunch and come back to finish up the same day, which perhaps is what I should have done, but I had planned to eat lunch at a slightly further location (City View Tavern), so I did everything in one pass. First off, I was thankful for the information from the worker or volunteer sitting upstairs near the exhibit entrance: "Go to see the brotherhood video on Floor 2. It runs every half hour." It had me Google mapping Ripley, OH, and if I'd have had more time and been a bit more prepared, I'd have probably checked that out next, after the museum! This was a very good video, and I was thankful for it, not only because it was a great presentation, and the second room for the video (part 2) absolutely blew me away, but upstairs, there is a family bible, and the names of the persons in the video were fresh in my mind, so I was able to stronger under the significance of seeing the Rankin Family Bible. The audio tour was great, but killed my phone battery. I wish I had brought in a portable charger box for my phone. But the museum was vast and did a great job of showing everything, as well as portraying it in an interesting and learnable fashion. Thank you!
Heather KuhnHeather Kuhn
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Address
50 E Freedom Way, Cincinnati, OH 45202
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(513) 333-7500
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Website
freedomcenter.org
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The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a museum in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, based on the history of the Underground Railroad. Opened in 2004, the center also pays tribute to all efforts to "abolish human enslavement and secure freedom for all people."
attractions: Great American Ball Park, The Escape Game Cincinnati, Heritage Bank Center, Paycor Stadium, Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Ohio River Trail, The Banks, Fountain Square, Taft Theatre, restaurants: Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse, Sotto, Taste of Belgium - The Banks, Maplewood Kitchen and Bar, BRU Burger Bar - Downtown Cincinnati, Knockback Nats, Nada, Moerlein Lager House, Nicholson's Fine Food & Whiskey, Arnold's Bar & Grill
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