Over-the-Rhine Museum Unveils Its Future!
Be among the first to learn what stories, families, and time periods will be at the center of the future Over-the-Rhine Museum!
The most important questions a museum faces are "What story do we tell?" and "How do we to tell it?" We have begun to answer these questions. On July 29th, the Over-the-Rhine Museum will reveal the stories and narratives that have been selected for interpretation. Join us at the Mercantile Library at 5:00pm for a happy hour and exciting presentation.
Start your Saturday night with us as we discuss the most exciting news we’ve shared since we bought the building!
We kick off with a chance to mingle with the local and national scholars who crafted the museum’s interpretive plan. After happy hour, local historian and museum co-founder Anne Delano Steinert will unveil the museum plan. This will be the first public announcement of which families will be featured in Cincinnati’s newest cultural attraction. Following Steinert’s announcement, architectural historian Andrew Dolkart will discuss the museum’s buildings, and historians Deborah Weiner and Henry Louis Taylor will give behind the scenes close-ups of their work on two specific apartments.
Doors open at 5pm. Program begins at 5:30pm.
Wine, beer, and light refreshments are included.
Suggested donation is $20.
Catch a preview of the presentation by listening to this WVXU Cincinnati Edition hosted conversation with participants of our interpretive plan!
About the Event Presenters
Andrew Dolkart teaches in the historic preservation program at Columbia University. He is the author of many books including Biography of a Tenement House in New York City: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street (2012) about the building occupied by the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and is a national expert on tenement architecture.
Deborah Weiner is an urban and public historian and curator specializing in American Jewish history. She is the co-author of On Middle Ground: A History of the Jews of Baltimore with Eric Goldstein (2018) and is the author of Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History (2006).
Henry Louis Taylor teaches in the department of urban and regional planning at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has served on the boards of the Urban Affairs Association and the Urban History Association and has published numerous books and articles on the history of race in America including editing Race and the City: Work, Community, and Protect in Cincinnati 1820-1970 (1994) and he wrote his doctoral dissertation on Cincinnati's Village of Lincoln Heights.
Thank you to our event co-sponsors!
Premier Sponsor: Cincinnati Historic Homes and the Sanregret Team at Keller Williams Realty
Supporting Sponsors: Rhinegeist Brewery and Kimley Cincinnati Hotel
Promotional Sponsor: Emerging Museum Professionals of Greater Cincinnati