The German
Heritage Museum
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This
museum, located in West
Fork Park, is the repository of historical artifacts and records of the
contributions of the many German-Americans who have made Cincinnati the great place it is today.
From May 18, through October 19,2008, visitors will be welcome
on the First and Third Sundays of the month, between 1:00 and 5:00 pm.
Closed on German
Day - June 1st.
Check the Calendar Of Events page on this website for Sundays with German
Festivals. The museum will be closed on those Sunday's also.
Click HERE for photos of opening
day (September 23, 2000).
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You can contact the museum
staff at:
German
Pioneer Museum
4764
West Fork Road
Cincinnati,
OH 45247
or call (513) 598-5732
The German Heritage
Museum serves as the
focal point in presenting and displaying German-American culture. This museum
is the first of its kind in the region, and a testament to the many
contributions German immigrants and their descendants have made toward the
building of the Ohio Valley and America. The museum focuses
especially on representing the long history of German-Americans in the Greater
Cincinnati area, which became, and remains one of the major German-American
centers in the United States.
In addition, displays also showcase the activities of the twenty organizations
currently under the umbrella of the German-American Citizens League of Greater
Cincinnati, founded in Cincinnati
in 1895.
The
building materials for the German Heritage Museum
were donated to the German-American Citizens League by the Feist
family of Delhi Township. The museum had an earlier life
as a log house, built around 1840.
The entire house was moved, piece by piece, to West
Fork Park
and has been reconstructed as the German
Heritage Museum.
Click HERE for more pictures of the museum going up.
Click HERE for additional construction
pictures taken September 11, 1999.