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More than 1.8 million artifacts, artworks and archives can be found at Cincinnati Museum Center .
Housed in the historic Union Terminal building in Queensgate , the Museum Center has everything from dinosaur bones and walkable indoor caves to an OMNIMAX theater and tidbits of local history, like old Rookwood Pottery dishes.
Some of those items are newer, but some are old. Billions of years old, in the case of the oldest object at the Museum Center.
What is the oldest artifact at Cincinnati Museum Center?
The oldest artifact at Cincinnati Museum Center is the Canyon Diablo meteorite, which is 4.5 billion years old. That’s slightly older than Earth itself.
According Museum Center spokesperson Cody Hefner, the asteroid that produced the fragment crashed into Earth approximately 50,000 years ago to form what is now Meteor Crater in Arizona.
The meteorite is on display in the Neil Armstrong Space Exploration Gallery.