Soapbox Media offers a great video profiling this long-standing unique destination in Cincinnati, founded 10 years ago now: The American Sign Museum. 

Soapboxmedia – American Sign Museum from Chas! Pangburn on Vimeo.

The museum is currently in Phase 3 of its 4-phase move into a new, expanded, permanent home in Camp Washington.  They’re still raising money, [...]

So I am going to get caught up on some follow-up bookmarks that have been pending for a while.  I try to keep up on the institutions of weird in town.
First up is a long piece CityBeat did on the Vent Haven Ventriloquism Museum here in town, the only major public museum devoted to ventriloquism.
While [...]

Photo by K. LeMaster/Building Cincinnati
Founded in 1975, the non-profit railway museum, located in the four-acre Latonia Yard, has a permanent collection of 37 pieces of historic equipment from the seven railroads entering Cincinnati.
So says Building Cincinnati, in a post about May’s Covington After Hours, about the Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati.
I’ve probably driven down Decoursey [...]

The American Sign Museum was recently featured on the front page of USA Today’s Life section.  Way to go, Tod!
There’s also a long article up on Roadside America.

A stone’s throw from Hamilton, some 25 miles from downtown Cincinnati, lies a public park with monumental sculpture and an underground house.Pyramid Hill sprawls over 265 acres of rolling hills, man-made lakes, thick woodlands and butterfly-filled meadows. Overlooking the Great Miami River, it is a contemporary art museum outdoors – a place where [...]

What could possible be better than having The American Sign Museum here in Cincinnati in Walnut Hills? Oh, I don’t know, how about having the world’s only ventriloquism museum in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky?!
Sure enough, the world’s only ventriloquism musuem is in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky. Nearly 700 dummies, countless posters, playbills, photographs, and racks and racks [...]

The grand opening is just around the corner.
What: The American Sign Museum
Where: Essex Studios, 2515 Essex Ave., Walnut Hills.
When: Reception 3 p.m. Thursday, ribbon cutting
4 p.m., celebration dinner cruise 6:15 p.m.
Cost: Free, but a $5 donation is suggested.
Information: (513) 258-4020; www.signmuseum.org.
The Sign Museum currently has no set hours but founder Tod Swormstedt will open it [...]

Try The American Sign Museum.

Here is something yet to be seen in full. A sign museum The American Sign Museum in Cincinnati. From the looks of their webpages they have a pretty cool collection. Right now they are only open by appointment only. But starting April 28th 2005 they will begin [...]