Founded in 1955, the Foundation’s ongoing mission is to communicate the story of American Hungarians through the Hungarian Heritage Center, which is the only facility of its type to offer archives, a museum and library in the United States.
The Foundation’s location in the Northeast region of the United States places it not only in a historically important area for American Hungarians, but is also in close reach of nearly forty percent of the current American Hungarian population.
The American Hungarian Foundation is dedicated to preserving, maintaining and celebrating the Hungarian heritage in the United States.
THE AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FOUNDATION HAS PRESENTED UNPARALLELED EXHIBITS OF THE VISUAL ARTS
The primary focus of the American Hungarian Foundation gallery is to curate and present exhibits of the extensive collections acquired from donors and to present temporary exhibits from around the world.
The library, an affiliate of the Rutgers library, has a collection of more than 60,000 books, monographs and other historical records.
The Foundation’s archival holdings include;
