Over-the-Rhine Museum Interpretive Plan

FAIN: BP-285313-22

Over-the-Rhine Museum (Cincinnati, OH 45250-0026)
Robert R. Gioielli (Project Director: August 2021 to November 2024)

The creation of a ten-year interpretive plan for the Over-the-Rhine Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Over-the-Rhine Museum seeks $75,000 in Historic Places planning funds to conduct research and convene a panel of humanities experts to create an ambitious ten-year interpretive plan. We will bring ten scholars to Cincinnati for two planning workshops and support them as they research and write portions of the interpretive plan based on their expertise. The plan will help bring our vacant tenement building to life as a hub for urban history and civic engagement based on our mission. The Over-the-Rhine Museum is a six-year-old nonprofit dedicated to uncovering, preserving, and celebrating all the stories of our rapidly gentrifying neighborhood. We have recently purchased a nineteenth-century tenement building in Cincinnati’s historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood and plan to use tenement apartments to immerse visitors in specific moments in the history of the building and the neighborhood as a way to connect local and personal histories to the larger themes of American History.