Final inspections close Union Terminal for 10 days
Terminal to close for approximately 2 weeks
Terminal to close for approximately 2 weeks
Terminal to close for approximately 2 weeks
Union Terminal and the Cincinnati Museum Center will be temporarily closed this week and almost all of next week ahead of its full restoration reveal.
The project involved a structural restoration of the historic building. The construction team is making sure everything is ready for the reveal.
The terminal will be closed this week and almost all of next week, reopening to the public Nov. 2.
The $224 million restoration project has taken around 2 1/2 years.
"Nov. 2, the building will reopen with the Duke Energy Children's Museum, the guitar exhibition and the chocolate exhibition," said Cody Hefner, director of communications.
After 2 1/2 years of renovations, Union Terminal is finally undergoing those final inspections. On Nov. 11, the terminal will host a very special Veterans Day celebration.
"We'll do a big flag unveiling that day, we'll have a brass band and honor marches," said Hefner.
And there will be some exciting new exhibits opening Nov. 17.
"Then, we start to open up the Dinosaur Exhibit, the Public Landing and Holiday Junction after that," said Hefner.
One of the additions that will be available Nov. 17 is QR codes. You'll be able to scan a QR code and it will show you the history, in pictures and videos, of wherever you're standing.
Over the next few days, the famous clock will be powered up.
"The neon is back on the clock, and they're getting ready to hook that electric up, so it's going to start keeping time, and at night, you're going to be able to see those red neon hands very soon," Hefner said.
As the clock starts back up, you'll be able to step back in time. When the building reopens, it will actually look closer to how it did in 1933 than it did in 2016.