Cincinnati Magazine | November 7, 2023
“At least 150 different families have called this property home since it was built as an apartment tenement building, with Fettweis’s single-family residential structure behind it fronting Findlay Street. They’re now owned by the nonprofit Over-the-Rhine Museum, which is transforming them into an immersive museum experience to help visitors step back in time to different eras of the neighborhood’s history.”
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WVXU | July 25, 2023
“Modeled after New York City’s Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the Over-the-Rhine Museum will recreate apartments of residents who lived in their buildings between 1862 and 2012 with a goal of making the structures come to life.”
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Cincinnati Magazine | August 23, 2022
“The Over-the-Rhine Museum plans to tell the neighborhood’s full story in a new permanent space near Findlay Market, the development of which is being partially funded by a recent $75,000 Historic Places Planning Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.”
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WCPO | May 23, 2022
"We're creating an interpretive plan, which is really kind of a roadmap for the museum on how we tell all these different stories, connecting them to the bigger stories of the United States," Harris said.
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Movers & Shakers Cincinnati | May 18, 2022
“The Over-the-Rhine Museum has landed two grants in the past few weeks that will lay the groundwork for the museum’s next decade. The museum is one of just four sites around the country to receive a National Endowment for the Humanities Historic Places grant…”
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CityBeat | November 9, 2021
“Right now, we basically have a mothballed historic building...Once we have the storefront all gussied up, we’ll create six to seven panels that will face outward from the storefront windows and explore a variety of the residents who have lived in the building over time. This will express the idea that while Over-the-Rhine has a foundational and important German heritage, there are also many other people who have lived there over time…”
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WVXU Cincinnati Edition | Jun 30, 2020
“This summer, the Over-the-Rhine Museum is celebrating the contributions women have made to the history of the neighborhood. The new installment of the museum's quarterly lecture series "Three Acts in Over-the-Rhine" is in honor of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote…”
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The Enquirer | January 10, 2020
“A local group is planning to convert two historic tenement buildings in Over-the-Rhine into a museum dedicated to former residents who helped shape the neighborhood…”
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Cincinnati Magazine | June 10, 2019
“…[Anne Delano Steinert] knew back then she wanted to help share the stories of the historic buildings that line our city’s streets. After more than 20 years in New York City, she’s back in the Queen City and ready to do just that as board chair of the Over-the-Rhine Museum…”
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CityBeat | January 16, 2019
“The long-planned Over-the-Rhine Museum — inspired by New York City’s popular Lower East Side Tenement Museum — has taken a major step toward becoming reality…”
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WCPO | November 26, 2017
“A local organization wants more people to share their personal histories of a place that different cultures have called home…”
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WKRC | November 26, 2017
“On Sunday, people who have lived or worked in OTR got a change to share that history with each other…”
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WVXU | June 28, 2017
“…It’s the latest installment in the lecture series “Three Acts in Over-the-Rhine,” with expert speakers dedicated to preserving the neighborhood’s history and heritage…”
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WKRC | April 2, 2017
Starting at minute 18:30, the Over-the-Rhine Museum’s Board Chair, Anne Delano, shares with newscaster Dan Hurley and viewing Cincinnatians the latest on what the organization is up to.
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CityBeat | April 27, 2016
“…For the last 95 years, the history of Over-the-Rhine includes mostly low-income people…Those histories are usually erased, and they’re being erased now…we're refusing to let those people be erased…”
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WVXU | January 22, 2016
“…The founder of the Tenement Museum, Ruth J. Abram is in Cincinnati to give a presentation at a sold-out event tonight…”
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CityBeat | January 20, 2016
“…“This is going to be a transformational museum that does things differently than other ones in Cincinnati…It will change the understanding of what a museum can be.”
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WCPO | December 17, 2015
“A group of 14 archivists, historians, curators, authors and Cincinnati locals are working to create a museum to highlight Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine neighborhood.”
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WVXU | November 3, 2015
“…The Over-the-Rhine Museum, slated to open in 2020 with a pop-up version available in 2016, will capture the community's extensive past with the help of local residents, historians, designers and business owners…”
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