Come visit us!

The Museum is open to visitors on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 11-3. If you would like to visit us on another day when we are not open, you can make an appointment by either calling the Museum telephone number, 216-523-3900 and leaving a message, or you can write a message to our email address, museum@clevelandhungarianmuseum.org, and we will reply and arrange for your visit.  Please give us at least a 4 day notice! Winters in Northeast Ohio can be challenging. When we are experiencing severe weather, please call the Museum after 11 o'clock to verify that we are open.

We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded two grants by the Hungarian Government through the Bethlen Gábor Fund Management, in support of our efforts to share with the greater community our Hungarian culture and history and the Hungarian immigrant story of Northeast, Ohio.

 The Cleveland Hungarian Heritage Society held its Annual Meeting on November 15th at the Museum.

What brought so many friends of the Museum together on a Friday night in October? It was great wine, great food, great music and great company! This year we had the privilege of honoring a fine magyar gentleman, Mr. Frank Dobos. Frank was an active member of our Cleveland Hungarian community, and his poignant words addressed to us sitting in the audience focused on a simple but important message: pass on your Hungarian heritage to your children and grandchildren , bring them to Hungarian events. Frank's words were typical of his commitment to his Hungarian heritage, and that is the reason he was a Guest of Honor at this year's Vintner Dinner!

What a wonderful tradition we celebrate every year at the Museum! It's our Annual  Children's Program! We invite children to learn about Hungarian culture in a fun and engaging way.

The afternoon will start at 2 o'clock, and there will be many activities to entertain children: seasonal crafts, decorating traditional mézeskalács cookies, vocabulary matching games, and an up close encounter with a cimbalom! Since our theme this year is Hungarian music, nothing fits this wonderful category better than the cimbalom!

We welcome children from ages 3-9, and 10-13. We will have age appropriate activities for all our young guests. St. Nicholas will visit the Museum and chat with the children!

Children must be registered to participate. Please email Andrea Meszaros at meszarosandyneni@gmail.com to register your child(ren). Please include their name and age. You may also leave a voicemail message for Andrea Meszaros at 440-247-5144. If you do leave a message, please also leave your phone number! We look forward to welcoming our young visitors.

The Museum is located at 1301 East 9th Street,  in the Galleria at Erieview, Lower Level, in Downtown, Cleveland. Fee for the program is $5/child.

Parking will be available in the Galleria Parking Garage for $7.  Consider giving the gift of culture to a young person!!

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DR. Krsztina Fehér had a brilliant idea! What better way to immerse her beginning Hungarian language class into the wealth of Hungarian culture than to actually have a class session at the Museum? To that end, members of her classes met at the Museum the morning of September 24th, and spent the hour discovering bits of Hungarian culture, history and artistry, and learning some of the basics of Hungarian folk dancing. The students were joined by Dr. Antonio Medina-Rivera from the CSU Department of World Languages, Literature and Cultures. Mr. László Tihanyi, a professional folk dancer and instructor from Hungary,  joined the class and was able to create some of the exuberance of the "táncház" movement that supports Hungarian  folk dancing in Hungary as well as in the Diaspsora. We enjoyed having these students at the Museum, and we hope to continue hosting future CSU Hungarian language classes!