Four woolly mammoths that once stood outside the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, and later the Cincinnati Museum Center’s Geier Collections and Research Center, are moving to a new location. First, one will make its way through the streets of Cincinnati Thursday in the Findlay Market Opening Day Parade.
(New) Homeward bound
A rigging company recently lifted the four woolly mammoths from their home for roughly the last 20 years outside the Geier Collections and Research Center on Gest Street. They’ll soon take up sentry outside the former Heidelberg Distributing facilities just north of the museum center on Dalton Ave, across from the U.S. Post Office.
“You’ll be standing with your back to the post office, and you’ll see them, the mammoths, looking like they’re walking towards Union Terminal,” says Elizabeth Pierce, president and CEO of the Cincinnati Museum Center.
She expects the woolly mammoths will be installed in the first weeks of April, though fund raising and planning are still underway for the as-yet-to-be-named education and collections facility that will be constructed on the former Heidelberg site. That’s not expected to open until late 2027 or early 2028, at the earliest. It will be used to consolidate the more than six million objects in the museums’ collections, and the Gest Street location will be closed…