HARMON MUSEUM | ART, HISTORY & CULTURE - Harmon Museum Landing Page

HARMON MUSEUM | ART, HISTORY & CULTURE - Harmon Museum Landing Page
HARMON MUSEUM | ART, HISTORY & CULTURE
Plan A Visit
Harmon Museum
Exhibits
Armstrong Gallery of Flight
Folk Art Gallery
Glendower Historic Mansion Display
Joseph Warren Statue
Information on Joseph Warren
Maritime Gallery
Shaker Gallery
The Town Square
Group Tours
History of Harmon Museum
The Museum Shop
Finnegan Book
Gift Certificates
On View
Research Library
1795 Beedle Log Cabin
Family Frontier Craft
History of the Beedle Log Cabin
Relocation & Restoration
WCHS Collection
Art
Historical Artifacts
Textiles
Documents
Collection Information
Collections Policy
On View
FOLK ART: Self-Taught Artists | Self-Told Stories
Previous Art Exhibitions
Previous Special Exhibits
Events
⭐ Events Calendar ⭐
Black Bag Bingo
Cemetery Tours
Family Fun on the Frontier
FOLK ART: Self-Taught Artists | Self-Told Stories
Lebanon Festival of the Arts 2026
Previous Years
Lunch & Learn
Lunch & Learn Tickets
Lunch & Learn Video Archive
Music at the Museum
Yoga at the Harmon Museum
Get Involved
Membership
Families and Individual Memberships
Business Membership
Donate
Giving Tuesday
Volunteer
Docent Training
Facility Rental
Education
Lena Iorns Award
Saturdays at the Beedle Cabin
Schools Tours
Speakers Bureau
Twilight Lecture Series
Blog
About
FAQ
Board and Staff
History of Our Properties
History of WCHS
Research Library
WCHS Collection
The Harmon Arts Awards
Community History
Celebrating Black History
Elizabeth Harvey Free Black Schooll
The Harmon Foundation & the Harlem Renaissance
Local Trailblazers
Anna Middleton
Bing Davis
Bing Davis Biography
The Art of Bing Davis
Cedric Michael Cox
Elizabeth Kimberlin
​James Richard Mills
Rodney Veal
Samuel Robert Bailey
In Honor & Remembrance
Lunch & Learn Video Archive
William Elmer Harmon
Partner Organizations
Harveysburg Community Historical Society
Loveland Museum Center
Mason Historical Society
Contact
Arts Network of Warren County
To preserve and present the culture and heritage of Warren County and Southwest Ohio.
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Hours of Operation
Tuesday - Saturday | 10-4pm
Office Phone:
513 932-1817
Connect with Us.
Coming & Current Events
May 2 | 11-1pm
Make a popsicle stick flowerpot for Mom!
May 9 | 10-4pm
Free Admission, Every 2nd Saturday, thanks to Rotary of Lebanon,
Lebanon
​Optimist Club, and Kiwanis.
May 20 | 11:30am
MIA for 75 Years... A Fallen Soldier Finally Returns Home
Get Tickets
May 21 | 7pm
Irish Pub Band, Fin Tan!
Saturday, May 2 | 6:00-8:00pm
Ice Cream Social & Annual Meeting
Tuesday, May 5 | 9-11:00am
Members-only-Morning Coffee & Pastries
Wednesday, May 6 | 1-5pm
Consult-A-Curator & Lifetime Membership Raffle Starts - Raffle Tickets just $1!
Thursday, May 7 | 4-7pm
After-Hours Docent Lead Tours
Friday, May 8
Bring A Friend Free Day & Mother's Day Discounts at the Museum Shop
​Saturday, May 9
Raffle Winner Announced
Check back in the coming weeks for more. WCHSmuseum.org
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Full Events Calendar
In the News
Our Executive Director, Michael Coyan, was on Cincy Lifestyle with Michelle Hopkins discussing our upcoming Folk Art Exhibition. Learn more about this special national exhibition through the interview and the link below.
More About This Exhibition
Ohio Goes to the Movies
We're An Official Location!
​We have been selected as an official location for the state's Ohio-250 Celebration; one of only three in Warren County! We'll be viewing the 1926 silent classic,
The Scarlet Letter
, staring
Lillian Gish who was born in Springfield, Ohio.
This FREE screening will take place in August, 100 years from its initial release. More details to come!
Before the era of "movie stars," there was the ethereal, Lillian Gish. Often called the "First Lady of American Cinema," Gish didn’t just act; she pioneered the very language of film performance. While her peers were still using the broad, exaggerated gestures of the stage, Gish moved the art form toward understatement, nuance, and raw emotional depth.
She was a woman who commanded the screen with a porcelain fragility that masked an iron will, a duality that made her the definitive interpreter of the silent era’s greatest heroines.
This adaptation of The Scarlet Letter is a masterclass in visual storytelling.
Gish personally fought to have this film made, choosing the director and her co-stars. Her portrayal of Hester is not one of a passive victim, but of a woman with immense internal strength and quiet dignity.
Directed by the legendary Swedish filmmaker Victor Sjöström, the film blends European atmospheric tension with Hollywood’s grand scale, creating a hauntingly beautiful aesthetic. In the absence of dialogue, the story is told through Gish’s incomparable "close-up" acting. Every flicker of shame, love, and resilience is etched into the silver screen.
As we move through 2026, we are exactly a century removed from this film’s original release. Seeing it today is a rare chance to experience the pinnacle of silent film artistry exactly as it was meant to be seen, as a powerful, shared emotional journey.
"The movies are the only thing that can happen to you. You are part of them."
Lillian Gish
For Your Information
FOLK ART Exhibition Catalogue Available!
FOLK ART: SELF-TOLD STORIES, SELF-TAUGHT ARTISTS
The official exhibition catalogue from the Harmon Museum.
Discover the raw, authentic voice of the American spirit in
"FOLK ART: SELF-TOLD STORIES, SELF-TAUGHT ARTISTS"
, the official catalogue of the Harmon Museum's major 2026 exhibition. This essential volume celebrates the unique power of art created by self-taught individuals, capturing personal forces that move them "beyond contemplation to creation."
Spanning two centuries of American ingenuity, this collector’s edition features over three dozen self-taught masters, including Reverend Howard Finster, Elijah Pierce, and Mary Tillman Smith and the rich collection covers diverse media such as Tramp Art, Face Jugs, Carvings, Painted Furniture, Whirligigs and more.
Published in conjunction with the America 250-Ohio celebrations and featuring the extensive Harmon Museum and K. Richard B. Niehoff collections, this book is a vital record of American cultural heritage.
Exhibition catalogue available in our gift shop.
Crossing the Pond
Crossing the Pond
Ocean Travel Before the Jet Airliner with Ashley Ford, the donor of our Ford Maritime Collection! This lecture discusses the oceanic travel experience and the progression of the magnificent ships that once commanded the North Atlantic Ocean. We will trace their evolution from early wooden vessels to the luxury cruise liners that once dominated world travel.
IRA & Charitable Donations
Tax benefits include more reasons to support the Harmon Museum.
Did you know that, if you are at least 70 1/2 years old, you can make tax-free charitable donations directly from your IRA? By making what's called a qualified charitable distribution (QCD), you can benefit your favorite charity while excluding up to $108,000 in 2025 from gross income. These gifts. also known as "charitable IRA rollovers," would otherwise be taxable IRA distributions. For more information, please use our
contact page
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In Your Community
Affiliate Members
We wish to acknowledge our
Affiliate Members
Elizabeth Harvey Free Black School / Harveysburg Community Historical Society
The Greater Loveland Historical Society
Alverta Green Mason Historical Society
Springboro Area Historical Society
We'd Like to Thank Our Business Members
Click HERE to Become a Business Member
Warren County's "Best of..." 2025
Harmon Museum has won Best Museum in Warren County's "Best of" 2025! Thank you for acknowledging the work we have and continue to do. This award has taken its place of honor among our other awards and recognitions.
A Drone View of Our Campus
We'd like to thank Ghost Bros 513 for the drone footage of our campus.
History in Your Home
Lunch & Learn Video Archive
View recordings
of past
Lunch & Learn
lectures.
The Western Star Archive
Digitized
Western Star Newspaper Archive
Lived in Lebanon long? Have family here? Check out our
Western Star Photo Archives from 1971 - 1989.
We're Online!
Connect with Us!
Phone:
513 932-1817
Email:
[email protected]
Harmon Museum
​Tues - Sat: | 10am - 4pm
Year Round
RESEARCH LIBRARY
Thurs & Fri  | 10-4pm
1795 BEEDLE cABIN
Saturdays |  11-1pm
​April - December
Contact
Membership
Volunteer
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In Partnership with:
Thank you to our generous sponsors:
Mary Alice Leisure
​Foundation
Plan A Visit
Harmon Museum
Exhibits
Armstrong Gallery of Flight
Folk Art Gallery
Glendower Historic Mansion Display
Joseph Warren Statue
Information on Joseph Warren
Maritime Gallery
Shaker Gallery
The Town Square
Group Tours
History of Harmon Museum
The Museum Shop
Finnegan Book
Gift Certificates
On View
Research Library
1795 Beedle Log Cabin
Family Frontier Craft
History of the Beedle Log Cabin
Relocation & Restoration
WCHS Collection
Art
Historical Artifacts
Textiles
Documents
Collection Information
Collections Policy
On View
FOLK ART: Self-Taught Artists | Self-Told Stories
Previous Art Exhibitions
Previous Special Exhibits
Events
⭐ Events Calendar ⭐
Black Bag Bingo
Cemetery Tours
Family Fun on the Frontier
FOLK ART: Self-Taught Artists | Self-Told Stories
Lebanon Festival of the Arts 2026
Previous Years
Lunch & Learn
Lunch & Learn Tickets
Lunch & Learn Video Archive
Music at the Museum
Yoga at the Harmon Museum
Get Involved
Membership
Families and Individual Memberships
Business Membership
Donate
Giving Tuesday
Volunteer
Docent Training
Facility Rental
Education
Lena Iorns Award
Saturdays at the Beedle Cabin
Schools Tours
Speakers Bureau
Twilight Lecture Series
Blog
About
FAQ
Board and Staff
History of Our Properties
History of WCHS
Research Library
WCHS Collection
The Harmon Arts Awards
Community History
Celebrating Black History
Elizabeth Harvey Free Black Schooll
The Harmon Foundation & the Harlem Renaissance
Local Trailblazers
Anna Middleton
Bing Davis
Bing Davis Biography
The Art of Bing Davis
Cedric Michael Cox
Elizabeth Kimberlin
​James Richard Mills
Rodney Veal
Samuel Robert Bailey
In Honor & Remembrance
Lunch & Learn Video Archive
William Elmer Harmon
Partner Organizations
Harveysburg Community Historical Society
Loveland Museum Center
Mason Historical Society
Contact
Arts Network of Warren County
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