Things to do in Cincinnati this week: July 5-11
Monday, July 5
FAMILY: Butterflies of Bali, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. daily, Krohn Conservatory, 1501 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams. Timed ticket entry. Runs May 8-Sept. 6. Reservations: krohn.ticketspice.com/butterflyshow.
RECREATION: Trivia on the Square, 6-8 p.m., Fountain Square, 520 Vine St., Downtown. Weekly through Oct. 11. Free. myfountainsquare.com.
Tuesday, July 6
HEALTH: Outdoor Fitness Series, 7 p.m., Winton Woods, 10245 Winton Road, Springfield Township. Rotating series of HIIT, boot camp and zumba every Tuesday June 1-Aug. 31. greatparks.org.
MUSEUMS: In a New Light: Treasures from the Taft, Taft Museum of Art, 316 Pike St., Downtown. Runs July 3-May 1. Exhibition highlights Anna and Charles Taft s vision as art collectors and their legacy to the people of Cincinnati.
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Centennial Exposition in 1888 was Cincinnati’s last hurrah as major city of the West Jeff Suess, Cincinnati Enquirer © Cincinnati Historical Society Music Hall was one of the exhibition buildings for the Centennial Exposition in Cincinnati in 1888. The temporary bridge over Elm Street connected Music Hall to the Washington Park Building.
The largest festival Cincinnati has ever thrown opened July 4, 1888. The event commemorated 100 years since the city’s founding, though the name, Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States, folded in the entire Northwest Territory, strangely de-emphasizing the Queen City.
The exposition was “to be an attest of the development of art, science and industry in a century of the Northwestern Territory” and a showcase for the advancements in machinery during the Industrial Revolution. This was the grandest and last of the expositions that Cincinnati had hosted nearly every year since 1870.