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Museum Center at Five Points

history museum, art museum, cultural center in Tennessee, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ17027163 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Museum Center at 5ive Points is a history museum in Cleveland, Tennessee which features exhibits on the history of the local region.

Exhibits

The Museum Center is a history museum, art museum, and cultural center and houses exhibits and artifacts relating to the history of the Ocoee Region of Tennessee, which includes Bradley and Polk Counties and the Chattanooga region and surrounding areas. The museum features one permanent exhibit, The River of Time, which traces the history of Bradley County, Polk County, and East Hamilton County. In addition, five to six changing exhibitions are held each year. The museum contains a store which has a gallery showcasing arts and crafts of the region and of the South. The facility is often used for private and community events.

History

The museum was first proposed in 1992. A committee was created on March 9, 1992 to study the feasibility of establishing a museum which would be "an organized and permanent non-profit institution, essentially educational or aesthetic in purpose, with professional staff, which owns and utilizes tangible objects, cares for them and exhibits them to the public on some regular schedule." Their mission statement was "to preserve and interpret the history and culture of the Ocoee District of Southeast Tennessee by highlighting the adventures of its people." Construction began on the museum center on May 28, 1998, and the museum opened to the public on September 11, 1999. The museum center was chosen as the 2011 recipient of the MainStreet Cleveland award. "Telling the story of the Ocoee Region" was adopted as the museum's mission statement on June 18, 2013.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Museum Center at Five Points” as history museum, art museum, cultural center in Tennessee, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 1998, 1999, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999. The account is most persuasive where Museum, Center and Five can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as history museum, art museum, cultural center in Tennessee, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17027163. Authority coordinates are 35.158, -84.874. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992, 1998, 1999 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Museum Center at Five Points” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.