Taft Museum of Art

About Taft Museum of Art

The Taft Museum of Art boasts a rich and ongoing legacy. The museum’s 200-year-old historic house was once home to notable Cincinnatians such as Nicholas Longworth and museum co-founders Anna Sinton Taft and Charles Phelps Taft. The one-of-a-kind landmark is now a destination of international cultural significance. Eight monumental landscape murals by Robert S. Duncanson, the first Black American artist to achieve global acclaim, adorn the walls of the museum’s foyer. The museum's collection of more than 800 objects includes important Chinese porcelains, European decorative arts, French Renaissance enamels, American furniture, and masterpiece paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, Francisco Goya, Rembrandt van Rijn, John Singer Sargent, J. M. W. Turner, and James McNeill Whistler. The Taft Museum of Art offers a unique, multi-sensory experience that immerses audiences in spaces to learn, create, and connect—within and beyond its walls. Visitors can enjoy special exhibitions, events, and programming for all ages, a beautiful outdoor garden, the Museum Shop, the Taft Café—and so much more.