The exhibition presents objects and photographs from the first-generation Hungarian-Americans of the town of Vintondale, Pennsylvania. They were collected over two weeks by ethnographers.
Among the highlights are the original store fixtures of a grocery on the round floor of a boarding house earlier owned by one Balázs Bagu. The store, opened in 1921, was short-lived, but Bagu?s heirs preserved it in its original state for generations.
?Their respect for tradition and their Hungarian identity stand as shining proof that Hungarians who immigrated to America more than a century ago, along with their descendants, are not only part of Hungarian culture, but also that their cultural values are worthy of preservation and presentation to a wider audience, being also an important part of US history,? the Balassi Institute noted.
The opening of the exhibition included a ceremony of the oath of citizenship.
The objects will soon be brought to the Skanzen in Szentendre, near Budapest, where they will become part of a permanent exhibit in a replica house to be built at the museum.
