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 writing a message to our email address, museum@clevelandhungarianmuseum.org, and we will answer your email and arrange for your visit.  Please give us at least a 4 day notice! The Museum will be closed on April 18th, Good Friday.

We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded a grant 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.

Did you know that the Cleveland Hungarian Heritage Society was incorporated as a non-profit corporation 40 years ago?  We are going to celebrate this milestone with a wonderful party at the Museum on May 10th, and you are invited!! We will have music by Harmonia, wonderful Hungarian flavored sweet treats as well as savory treats, two very talented Hungarian folk dancers,  and delicious Hungarian wines for you to taste. A new exhibit will highlight our 40 year history.  The mission of the founders was to support a museum that would preserve the history of the Hungarian immigrant community in Northeast, Ohio, and would showcase Hungarian culture through its collection of fine art, folk art, books, and archival material. Since 1985, our collection has grown, our exhibits have embraced many topics, and our library has over 8000 volumes. Interactive computers enrich our exhibits, and our regular programming covers a broad range of topics. We have hosted children, high school students, college students, family reunions, political dignitaries, and the thousands of visitors who have come through our Székely gate to view our collection. With the support of our community, we have grown into a first class cultural gem located in downtown Cleveland, and we will be celebrating this milestone this year.

The Cleveland Hungarian Museum invites you to the last program in our 2025 Spring Lecture Series! It will be held at the Museum on April 12 at 2:00 o’clock. The Museum is located in   Downtown Cleveland in the Galleria At Erieview, Lower level. 

The title of the program is Pilgrims in a Foreign Land: A History of America’s Hungarian Catholic Shrines and Pilgrimage Traditions.

The lecture will be in English and presenter will be Nicholas Boros.

In August 2023, Bishop Edward Malesic designated Cleveland’s St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish as a shrine, but it certainly was not the first shrine built by America’s Hungarian Catholic community. During the last century, Hungarian-American Catholics had erected four other shrines, Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Orange Village, OH), Our Lady Comforter of the Afflicted (Youngstown, OH), and two in honor of Our Lady of Máriapócs (Burton, OH and Matawan, NJ).

This past summer, Cleveland-native Nicholas Boros completed an over 300-page pictorial history showcasing the story of these Hungarian-American shrines and pilgrimage traditions, portions of which he will be sharing as part of his presentation. Nicholas Boros serves as an Upper School Mathematics Teacher at Hawken School in Gates Mills, Ohio. He completed his undergraduate studies in comparative religion, linguistics, and mathematics at Cleveland State University. His primary area of research focuses on various topics within the history of Eastern Orthodoxy in America, but he occasionally works on projects related to the historical development of Hungarian Catholicism in America.

As is our tradition, we will serve refreshments after the lecture and guests will a chance to discuss the topic further with Nicholas.  Suggested donations: Adults $10, Students $5. Parking is available for $7 in the Galleria’s Parking Garage.

Hope to see you! A viszontlátásra!

On Saturday afternoon, March 8th,  we had a Hungarian language program at the Museum. It was well-attended and well-received! Our speaker, Ildikó Antal-Ferencz, is a freelance journalist who spent almost 3 years in the U.S. Her husband's job landed the family in New Jersey, and she spent a significant portion of those years interviewing Hungarians living in the diaspora. Their stories encompass three volumes in Hungarian, and 2 volumes in English, containing roughly 106 interviews with Hungarian-Americans residing anywhere from east coast, west coast and many states in between.  Many of us sitting in the seats thought we knew how other members of the diaspora lived their magyar identity, but listening to Ildikó, you realized that our magyar communities have active members of different ages and interests. We had some out of town attendees, who were very complimentary of our Museum and its collection, library. Questions and answers were followed by refreshments and a book signing by Ildikó.

THANK YOU DR. MARTHA PERESZLÉNYI-PINTÉR FOR A FABULOUS PROGRAM!!  This program was made for a live audience and we enjoyed how Márti enriched her presentation with audiovisuals from YouTube, live poetry recitations, and a stunning handout. If one ever had a doubt about how beautifully magyar literature (in all its forms) brings to life the spirit of romance, you certainly were convinced after the program that we Hungarians have a sentimental streak that at times is elevated to a very high level! This program would not have had its impact without the beautiful poetry recitations by ZSUZSA AND LORÁND CSIBI! Poetry recited live has an added dimension of drama and emotion, and we appreciated their interpretations of the mood and topic of the poems.