Experience the Christmas Story House & Museum

Our 9^th stop on our 94 Days of Summer and Discovery Tour is to the Christmas Story House & Museum made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie. Visitors can walk through the period-modeled site, and see the soap Ralphie washed his mouth out with or firing a BB gun in the backyard.  

Directly across the street from the House is A Christmas Story Museum, which features original props, costumes and memorabilia from the film, as well as hundreds of rare behind-the-scenes photos. Don’t forget to visit the Gift Shop to purchase your own Major Award Leg Lamp and other great movie memorabilia.

Want a more unique experience? You can now stay overnight next door at the Bumpus House or rent the Christmas Story House itself for overnight stays, sleeping in Ralphie and Randy’s beds.

For the ultimate Christmas Story fan you can even rent the house to hold your wedding ceremony, elopement or vowel renewal. This is for sure an experience your guests will remember for a lifetime.

Spend the afternoon touring the house, museum, and gift shop then walk right over to the Rowley Inn, a neighborhood gastropub with a gracious and welcoming family-friendly atmosphere. During the filming the upstairs of the building served as the location for the commissary, make-up and wardrobe as well as a location for post-filming “meetings”.

All the Christmas Story locations and the Rowley Inn are practicing safe social distancing and following CDC guidelines to keep their patrons safe. Masks are required inside all of the Christmas Story-affiliated buildings.

Interested in spending the day or two on an area museum tour? Contact our tours department to set up a customized local tour with one of our expert guides.

Want more location suggestions? Then visit us every day until September 22^nd as we explore and showcase different amazing locations across Northeast Ohio!

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