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Cleveland History Center

Experience Cleveland like never before through vast and varied collections covering family history, community history, entrepreneurship, and technological innovation, featuring items, documents, and artifacts.

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Cleveland History Center

Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum

The Crawford Auto-Aviation Collection brings the history of transportation alive through over 170 antique automobiles, 21 non-car transportation artifacts (motorcycles, bicycles, and boats), 12 aircraft, and 3 carriages and sleighs.

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Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum

Library

WRHS Library collections include 250,000 books, 25,000 newspapers, numerous maps, sheet music, broadsides, other printed ephemera, unpublished manuscripts, including 340,000 images, and more.

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Library

Hale Farm & Village

Hale Farm & Village is a living history museum within Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Explore 19th-century life in the Western Reserve including 32 historic structures, demonstrations, farm animals, and gardens.

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Hale Farm & Village

Plan & Visit

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Cleveland History Center

Cleveland History Center

Experience Cleveland like never before through vast and varied collections.

Crawford Auto Aviation Museum

Crawford Auto Aviation Museum

The Crawford brings the history of transportation to life for all to experience.

Library

Library

Our library is dedicated to documenting all aspects of the region’s history.

Hale Farm & Village

Hale Farm & Village

Hale Farm & Village is a living history museum in Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

Do & See

Overview Exhibitions Events Collections Historic Sites

Sunday
September 22
at 10:00am 22

La Macchina Molto Bella Car Show

Thursday
October 03
at 5:00pm 03

The Doll That Changed it All: Black Barbie Documentary Viewing Party and Exhibition Opening

Saturday
October 05
at 10:00am 05

Harvest Festival

Sunday
October 06
at 10:00am 06

Harvest Festival

Learn & Discover

Overview Programs History at Home Internships Educational Resources Resources for African American History Resources for Jewish History

Field Trips to the Cleveland History Center

Field Trips to Hale Farm & Village

Youth Entrepreneurship Education

Experience Northeast Ohio's entrepreneurial spirit of the past, present and future.

Digital Cleveland Starts Here®

Here you will find access to the digital collections of WRHS encompassing images, audio, video, and texts.

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Become a Member

Membership has its perks! Find countless ways to experience history today and every day with Western Reserve Historical Society Membership.

Join an Auxiliary

Get behind the scenes and join an auxiliary! The African American Archives Auxiliary, Citizens of Hale Farm & Village, Genealogical Committee, and the Friends of the Cleveland History Center support WRHS's priority initiatives.

Make a Donation

When you support Western Reserve Historical Society, you support Northeast Ohio by keeping alive the rich history of this fascinating region, the stories of its people, places, industry, and culture.

Western Reserve Historical Society is the oldest cultural institution in Northeast Ohio, the region's largest American history research center, and one of the leading genealogical research centers in the nation.

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Cleveland History Center
10825 East Boulevard
Cleveland, Ohio 44106 ↗

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(216) 721-5722

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Thursday: 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Friday, Saturday, & Sunday: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

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