The German Heritage Museum serves as a focal point in presenting and displaying German-American culture. This museum is the first of its kind in the region and a testament to the many contributions German immigrants and their descendants have made in the growth of the Ohio Valley and America. The museum focuses especially on representing the history of German-Americans in the Greater Cincinnati area, which became and remains one of the major German-American centers in the United States. In addition, displays showcase the activities of the organizations currently under the umbrella of the German-American Citizens’ League of Greater Cincinnati.

In 1995, the descendants of the Philip Feist family of Delhi Township approached the German-American Citizens’ League with an offer to donate their family homestead. It is estimated that the original log home was built around 1840. In the interest of preserving German-American history, the GACL decided that turning the log house into a museum would be both a way to preserve the house itself and a method to create a venue to maintain the German heritage of Cincinnati. The house was disassembled and brought to West Fork Park in Monfort Heights in Green Township. It is in this park that the treasured home of the Feist family has evolved to become the German Heritage Museum.