Visiting the house from A Christmas Story

Travelingmegs
3 min readDec 8, 2021

I always wanted to visit the home in Cleveland, OH. As an added bonus, I slept at the Bumpus house.

Outside of the A Christmas Story home

“A Christmas Story” is a movie that I LOVE. It is one of my absolute favorite movies. When I got the chance to visit a friend, who lives near Columbus Ohio, I suggested we head to Cleveland for the weekend to visit the house used in the movie. Luckily, she was all for it! You’re probably thinking that the movie doesn’t take place in Ohio. You would be right. It actually takes place in Hammond, Indiana. The house they used for the movie is actually in Cleveland. The house is now a museum, where it is recreated to look like how the house was set up in the film. The owner also bought the neighboring house (the home of those pesky Bumpus dogs who ruined Christmas dinner) and the property across the street.

In the property across the street, they opened a gift shop and a museum that is included in the admission to the house. The museum has fun things, such as clothes and props used in the movie.

Ralphie’s bedroom

The fun part about going through the house is that (for the most part) you can touch and interact with everything in the house. If you notice in the photo above, laying…

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Travelingmegs

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