Over-the-Rhine Museum plans to help visitors step back in time through the power of historic...

After years of planning, co-founders of the Over-the-Rhine Museum are poised to unveil how they’ll transform two vacant buildings into an immersive experience to show how generations of people have lived in the historic neighborhood.

Local and national scholars have been developing the plan for the museum, designed to uncover, preserve and celebrate the stories of Cincinnati’s urban history over time.

Modeled after New York City’s Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the Over-the-Rhine Museum will recreate apartments of residents who lived in their buildings between 1862 and 2012 with a goal of making the structures come to life.

On Cincinnati Edition, we talk about the plan for the museum with some of the local and national scholars who have been involved – and discuss why they think it’s so important to preserve this history.