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Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont
CROQUET: A Sport Story
February 9 through August 1, 2010
The Hayes Presidential Center is home to the most comprehensive collection of printed croquet materials in the nation. This exclusive exhibit showcases the collection and chronicles the history of one of the few early sports where co-ed play was acceptable.
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center in Wilberforce
The Journey of Hope in America: Quilts Inspired by Barack Obama
Through December 18, 2010
Fiber artists of diverse backgrounds commemorate the historic election and presidency of Barack Obama. More than 95 art quilts, folk art quilts and traditional quilts explore and expand our understanding of electing America's first African American president.
From Victory To Freedom: Afro-American Life in the Fifties
This exhibit spans African-American experiences following World War II up to 1965, depicting the era’s lifestyles and chronicling the social changes that occurred in America through photographs, artifacts and life-sized scenes. Watch the award-winning Music As a Metaphor video, which explores the development African-American music, including gospel, jazz, bebop and classical genres.
Ohio Historical Center in Columbus
To Have and To Hold: Treasures of the Christopher Collection
Now on Display
This exhibition features a selection of ordinary and extraordinary objects from the Tom and Agnes Christopher Collection of largely 19th-century American furniture, ceramics, decorative arts, woodenware, and metal ware—each created and designed to hold something else. The exhibition provides an unparalleled opportunity to consider the whys and hows of material culture in 1800s America.
Windows to Our Collections: Ohio’s Ancient Past
Now on Display
Explore more than 15,000 years of Ohio’s ancient Native American heritage. At the entry, a widescreen monitor introduces the exhibit with two informational programs. Some of the Society’s most significant archaeological artifacts, such as the Adena Pipe, the mica hand, and the Wray figurine, as well as many animal effigy pipes from Tremper Mound are centrally featured in tower cases. Fiber optic lighting enhances visitors’ almost 360- degree view of these, and other, unique and beautiful artifacts. Visitors can open multiple artifact drawers to see what the ancient people used on a daily basis, as well as for special purposes. Those interested in a more thorough examination of the objects can move to nearby computer stations, where they can locate information on specific items in the online catalog. Here they can also find additional information on Ohio’s ancient cultures by visiting the OHS Archaeology blog and touring the First Ohioans on-line exhibit.
Ohio's Garden Path: The Flowering of Our Landscape
Now on Display
Explore the nation's most popular leisure-time activity from a perspective of 200 years of change. Find out how Ohioans came to see the owning of a plot of land as part of the American dream and why the personal versions of Eden they created were a reflection of their origins and the values and fashions of the day. The exhibition includes artifacts, paintings, photographs, seed catalogues and oral histories with veterans of the landscaping and nursery business in Ohio. Enjoy family fun in the gazebo, greenhouse and tool shed in My Back Yard, near the main exhibition space
White Castle: The History You Crave
Now on Display
The history of White Castle, America’s first hamburger chain, is celebrated in this panel exhibit. Visitors get a taste of more than 100 artifacts and images from White Castle’s 85-year history, nearly all of it as a Columbus-based company. Items on display include plates and mugs, fountain glassware, posters, burger boxes, match books, employee recognition pins, paper caps for men and women, sacks and a White Castle “clock” that has no hands because “we’re open all day and all night.”
Ohio: Centuries of Change
Now on Display
Ohio’s story is the nation’s story. This 15,000-square-foot exhibit gallery chronicles Ohio history from frontier days to the 1970s, focusing on agricultural and industrial progress, leadership and the effect of major changes on the lives of ordinary people. Within the gallery is the popular section, Ohio And The Civil War, which describes Ohio’s key role in the conflict. Artifacts include weapons, uniforms, medical and camp equipment and battle flags from the Society’s collections. More than 310,000 Ohioans served in the American Civil War. Other highlights of this history gallery are 1920s newsreels, an operating carriage shop, vintage automobiles and children’s activities, including a log cabin and pioneer kitchen, where young people can try on pioneer clothes, operate a spinning wheel and “cook” pioneer food.
The Nature of Ohio
Now on Display
In this exhibit gallery, visitors can explore five themes of Ohio’s natural history: plants, animals, geology, geography and climate. The space opens with the giant Conway mastodon greeting guests as they begin a tour of Ohio’s unique natural history from the ice age to the present. This exhibit is highly interactive and designed for young people to touch specimens, test themselves with computer displays and play safely in the Battelle Discovery Park and Theatre. Don’t miss a display of extinct animals, including two century-old specimens of the ivory-billed woodpecker. Also, look here for “Buttons,” the last documented wild passenger pigeon anywhere in the world.
Shaker Historical Museum in Cleveland
The Construction of the Terminal Tower
Now through April 4, 2010
Louis Conrad Rosenberg was commissioned by the Van Sweringen brothers, developers of the Terminal Tower, to do a series of engravings from 1928 through 1930 showing the existing sites, demolitions and construction of the Terminal Tower. This series are one of only 36 complete sets printed before the plates were cancelled.
Virtual First Ohioans
Journey through Ohio's ancient past with The First Ohioans, the Ohio Historical Society's award-winning exhibit.
Severe Weather in Ohio
The 25 extreme weather events in this online exhibit were chosen from more than two hundred extreme weather events described in the book Thunder in the Heartland: A Chronicle of Outstanding Weather Events in Ohio, by Dr. Thomas Schmidlin and Jeanne Appelhans Schmidlin. In this exhibit you will read about Ohio's worst snowstorms, blizzards, floods, windstorms, tornadoes, and extremes of heat and cold. Even the unusual and deadly mystery waves on Lake Erie are described.
Every Garden A Munitions Plant: War Gardens in Ohio 1917-1945
In conjunction with the physical exhibition, "Ohio's Garden Path: the Flowering of Our Landscape," this online exhibit explores the emphasis on gardening for subsistence and support of the First and Second World Wars. Join us as we discover the history and the attraction of victory gardening in Ohio.
Yesterday's Toys
The Ohio Historical Society presents Yesterday's Toys for your pleasure. As you browse this on-line exhibit, enjoy the toys for what they are - a fun peek into Ohio's past.
Banners, Buttons & Broadsides: An Online Political Campaign Exhibit
Since the beginning of the modern campaign, presidential candidates have been in search of ways to get their names and messages in front of voters. Beginning with simple signs and ribbons, the methods used have become more complex through the years. more>>
Adena: The Home of Thomas Worthington
Adena was the 2000 acre estate of Thomas Worthington (1773-1827), sixth governor of Ohio and one of the state's first United States Senators. The mansion house, completed in 1806-1807, has been restored to look much as it did when the Worthington family lived there, including many original Worthington family furnishings.
Medal of Honor
Commemorating Ohio's heroes, who for their undaunted courage in the service of the United States of America received the nation's highest military award, the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Fight for the Colors
The Fight for the Colors exhibit provides online access to one of the Ohio Historical Society's most significant and popular collections, the Ohio Battle Flag Collection. Ohio soldiers carried the flags, known as colors, in the. . . . more>>
OhioPix
Search images from the Ohio Historical Society's collections online in our image database, OhioPix! The database is searchable by subject, title, photographer and dates. Curators have selected highlights from our photograph collections and created "galleries" to illustrate specific topics or themes.
Kilroy Was Here!: The 1940s Revisited
 The 1940s was one of the most pivotal decades of the 20th century. The Ohio Historical Society
has brought that era to life in this online exhibit, Kilroy Was Here: The 1940s Revisited...more>>
Selections from the Joe Munroe Archives
The Ohio Historical Society acquired the Joe Munroe Archives in May 1997 and is pleased to provide this selection for viewing. Please be aware that any use and/or reproduction from this site requires permission.
On the Road: Travel Photographs
The photographs selected for the Web version of this exhibit, represent only a small portion of the images depicting locations outside Ohio that can be found among the collections. Made or acquired primarily by people from Ohio as they traveled throughout the world, the images in the exhibit portray six states and five foreign countries.
Paintings by Ohio Artists
Painting as an art form came to the Northwest Territory along with the first settlers. The earliest activity was that of the roaming and itinerant artists who were called upon to paint signs, furniture, portraits, as well as provide a lesson or two. Traveling through Ohio's countryside and her burgeoning cities and towns, these artists sought commissions from patrons and taught aspiring young artists.
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