The Cincinnati based American Sign Museum is actively making a push to further develop research and understating of American Sign language. The plan calls for moving the museum into a new larger space in January 2012. Tod Swormstedt is the museum director and founder and thinks that with the city’s push to become a national center of innovation for CPG marketing, branding, and digital design Sign Language has a role to play.
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Just wanted to make a correction to the information posted. It’s the American Sign Museum and not the American Sign Language Museum.
Encompassing more than a century of sign history, the museum showcases everything from fancy gold leaf glass signs, through the pre-neon era of light bulb signs, to neon’s heyday, and the funky ’50s era of rotating globes and flashing light bulb-studded arrows. Visitors will learn how neon signs work and when they were introduced to the U.S. They will also witness spinning sputnik-like signs from bygone eras and see hand-painted show cards from the Las Vegas days of Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack.
Nostalgia is a key attraction, and a tour of the museum is a journey through decades of America’s evolving cultural taste, technology and commercial design.
Really just a fun place to visit!