Museum - Kiskun Museum

The Kiskun Museum was founded in 1902 by Gyula Szalay, the versatile teacher of the local secondary school. In 1912 the growing collection of antiques were placed in the late-baroque Greek house, and it only moved to its present place in 1939.

The baroque building was built in 1753. The main building used to give place for administrations of public affairs, whereas the one in the back served as a dungeon for the prisoners of Kiskun area.

Programmes

Museum evenigs

Our Fine Art Memories

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Permanent exhibitions

Relics of the Hungarian prison history

The building of the former Kiskun police office

The exhibition is situated in the courtyard of the prisonhouse of the former Kiskun Police Station. Visitors can see the relics and pictures of the torture devices of the 15th-17th centuries. The methods and tools of capital punishment is also demonstrated. In the 17-19th centuries the convicts were emprisoned in work houses and behaviour-correcting institutes.

The painters and statues of Morell Mihály

Religious life in the Kiskunság

The permanent exhibition is located in the building of the museum. The display has the characteristics of history and ethnography. The visitors may get acquainted with objects of liturgy of the Reformed Church, the Jewish community, and the Roman Catholic Church living in the area of the Kiskunság.

The paintings of László Holló

The painter - rewarded the Kossuth and Munkácsy prizes - was born in Kiskunfélegyháza. He lived in Debrecenben until his death. He himself donated his paintings to his town in 1961. He was a prominent artist of the Hungarian expressionism.

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