The museum is located in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, five miles (8.0 km) south of Cincinnati.

[3] Vent Haven Museum was founded by William Shakespeare Berger (1878–1972), a Cincinnati businessman and amateur ventriloquist.

[6] The museum's collection contains more than 1,000 ventriloquist figures from 20 countries, as well as hundreds of photographs and other pieces of memorabilia related to ventriloquism.

The collection includes replicas of figures used by Edgar Bergen, Paul Winchell, and Shari Lewis, and authentic performance pieces used by Jimmy Nelson, Willie Tyler, Jay Johnson, Terry Fator, Jeff Dunham, and Darci Lynne.

[7][2] The museum has four performance figures that reportedly belonged to William Wood, who died under unclear circumstances when the tugboat he and his daughter were on foundered in the Gulf of Mexico in 1908.