Otherworld museum columbus ohio12/15/2023 ![]() Know that this isn’t a museum you can appreciate by just “breezing through.” There aren’t a ton of GEE WHIZ works of art or numerous battlefield relics, although there are a number of artifacts. We found our visit to be educational, touching, and very rewarding. See Packards from 1899 to 1956, a 1931 Packard Model 840 Super 8 Spirit Phaeton, Buicks and Auburns from 1900 to 1936, a 1956 Chrysler Imperial, a 1956 Cadillac, a 1958 Edsel Ranger and 1956 Lincoln Mark II.Īlthough we’re central Ohio residents, my husband and I had never visited the National Veterans Memorial & Museum (NVMM) until last week. There also is a collection of military memorabilia, including a 1943 Ford GPW Jeep and a weapons carrier. There also is a collection of single digit license plates and mistake plates, an Ohio plate for every year and a 1906 Cincinnati plate for the days when cities, not states, issued them. ![]() The museum, which is free and open to the public, features 28 vintage cars, gas station memorabilia, road signs and colorful license plates from all over the world that wallpaper the white cinder block. Steve Wagner, a 70ish former mortgage lender, usually appears for the tours, which have attracted visitors from 31 countries over the years, usually 300 tours a year. Located at 476 East Kossuth Street, at Washington Avenue, two blocks west of Parsons Avenue, east of German Village, in the Schumacher Place neighborhood, it is a small museum without a regular staff so you need to call to schedule an appointment to tour the 4,100-square-foot facility that was an auto body shop in 1930. Like the Wagner-Hagans Auto Museum in Columbus, Ohio. So whenever I have the opportunity, I enjoy browsing through auto museums to remind myself of the way it was. I once owned a 1964 Pontiac Grand Prix, a muscle car with a 409 High Output engine, three deuces and four on the floor. We are so excited for our next trip to Columbus to visit COSI! If you have kids interested in science, technology, and natural history then this is the place to visit if you are in Columbus. *dressing up as construction workers and getting to build things with foam blocksĪnd there is seriously so much more! This place rocks! One suggestion to is bring your own lunch (I wish that we had!) because the cafe line was very long at lunchtime and the lunch choices were expensive. *creating a water tunnel out of PVC piping *shooting water fountains at a Poseidon sea adventure *creating your own sea creatures on an interactive graphic design computer ![]() *working a remote controlled submarine robot We went on a Saturday and it was very busy, however it did not stop us from having fun. We started with the science part and eventually worked our way over to the natural history. The museum is set up into two parts: the science/technology part and the natural history part. If you haven't been to this museum before then you are missing out! What a treasure this place is! My only wish is that we lived closer so that we could experience this more! There is so much to do, we could have easily stayed the entire day at this place. ![]()
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