Unusual museums in Cleveland
Looking for unusual museums & collections in Cleveland? These 6 are the genuinely strange ones — Cleveland Police Museum, National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame & Museum, Baseball Heritage Museum and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Cleveland they'd never find on their own.
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Cleveland Police Museum
Located inside the Justice Center, this free museum houses the actual plaster 'Death Masks' of several uniden…
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National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame & Museum
This hyper-niche museum celebrates the 'happiest sound around' with a collection of vintage accordions, perfo…
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Baseball Heritage Museum
Located in the former ticket office of historic League Park—the oldest standing baseball park in the country—…
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Ukrainian Museum-Archives
Founded in 1952 by displaced scholars, this museum houses an astonishingly rich archive of over 45,000 books,…
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The Bombed Thinker
One of the last bronze castings of Rodin's 'The Thinker' made during his lifetime, left permanently damaged a…
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A Christmas Story House
The actual Tremont house used for exterior shots in the 1983 film A Christmas Story, bought and restored to m…