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Marietta, Ohio is home to 2 amazing museums that feature exhibits and events for all ages, all year round! Make sure you check out all of the great history that our Marietta Museums have to offer!

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Discovering History

Date(s): 02/20/2026
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location: Campus Martius Museum

The Nathaniel Clark Pottery: an Entrée to Early Commerce in the Ohio Country. Business ventures like the Clark pottery, established at Marietta in 1808, provide a window into early commercial development in the upper Ohio River valley and the economic...

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Featured Exhibition

Celebrating the Pioneers

WHERE: First Floor - CMM

The Ordinance of 1787 opened a vast wilderness west of the Ohio River for settlement. “Ohio fever” had begun with the Ohio Company leading the way. Its members made many significant contributions in bringing sophistication to this uncharted land as well as their ideals and principals that we enjoy today. This exhibit, based on the book The Pioneers by David McCullough, explores the lives and personal objects owned by some of the individuals mentioned in the book. It offers a chance to look inside the personalities and lives of some of these important groundbreakers.

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