Members of the Hungarian Settlement Historical Society cut the ribbon to officially open the Hungarian Settlement Museum on Wednesday.
Alex Kropog, the president of the Hungarian Settlement Historical Society, gives an overview of the society's almost two decades of work to open the Hungarian Settlement Museum.
Madison Onellion, 4, points out trains in a display in the Hungarian Settlement Museum to Cindy Brasington during the opening of the museum Wednesday.
State senator Dale Erdey, R-District 13, explains his personal connection to the Hungarian Settlement Museum as the only full-blooded Hungarian in the State Senate.
Richard Kinchen (left) reads out names of the former nursing home patients to Guy Kinchen Domin, who's parents ran a nursing home during the 1940s in the building where the new Hungarian Settlement Museum is housed.
Eric Edwards, Livingston Parish Tourism director, explains the importance of the Hungarian Settlement Museum to the tourism industry in Livingston Parish.
Members of the community gather for the official opening ceremony for the Hungarian Settlement Museum on Wednesday.
Peter Gyombolai (left), a Hungarian Diaspora liaison at the Hungarian Embassy, thanks Alex Kropog, the president of the Hungarian Settlement Historical Society, for all the work his society members put into the Hungarian Settlement Museum.
Peter Gyombolai, a Hungarian Diaspora liaison at the Hungarian Embassy, speaks wth Guy Kitchen Domin, who is 101 years old. Domin's parents were administrators in the nursing home that was operated out of the building, which now houses the Hungarian Settlement Museum.
Peter Gyombolai, a Hungarian Diaspora liaison at the Hungarian Embassy, commends the members of the Hungarian Historical society on the work they put into preserving Hungarian culture in Livingston Parish during the opening ceremony of the Hungarian Settlement Museum on Wednesday morning.
Steve Parrill, Livingston Parish Schools assistant superintendent, explains his excitement to be able to partner with the Hungarian Settlement Historical Society to open the Hungarian Settlement Museum on Wednesday. The Livingston Parish School Board owns the building in which the society is operating the museum.
