2024. April 25. Thursday
Mikszáth Kálmán Memorial House - Sklabiná
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Address: 991 05, Sklabiná 188
Phone number: (47) 488-6113
E-mail: mkms@snm.sk
Opening hours: Thu-Sun 10-17
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The Slovakian Hungarian Culture Museum runs the Kálmán Mikszáth Memorial House in Szklabonya.
Kálmán Mikszáth was born on 16 January 1947 in Szklabonya. If searched, we would not find the house of his birth in the village since it was taken down in 1986. The house, however, where Kálmán Mikszáth spent his childhood and where he returned during school recess still exist.
Kálmán Mikszáth's family moved to the house opposite the cemetery in 1852. Formerly the local post office operated in the house which was reconstructed in 1978 and a memorial exhibition was set up in its three rooms. The Kálmán Mikszáth Memorial House was opened on 24 June 1978. A tablet on its wall and a bust in the yard commemorated the writer. The parents of Kálmán Mikszáth probably, but her sister definitely, are buried in the cemetery opposite the house.
The Slovakian Hungarian Culture Museum took the memorial house over from the Kékkő Toy and Puppet Museum in January 2003. After its reconstruction in 2005, a permanent exhibition presenting the life and work of Kálmán Mikszáth was opened in the house.
Two rooms looking in the street render the authentic atmosphere of the era. Contemporary furniture, personal articles, a prayer book edited by the priest József Székács on the table and a cross on the wall conjure up the life of the family. Looking out of the window, the visitors can see the grave of Kálmán Mikszáth's sister, Mariska with a red marble tombstone. In the next room, on the desk Kálmán Mikszáth's favourite book by Jókai, The History of the 20th century, a collection of pipes are placed while the shelves are full of books, the portrait of the writer's wife hungs on the wall with travel chests underneath.
Beside the interior, the exhibition wishes to demonstrate Kálmán Mikszáth's affection for the village, what Szklabonya meant to him, Nógrád and people in Nógrád. The history of Szklabonya and the house where the writer was born is shown in the hall.
The history of Mikszáth becoming a writer and his relationship to Nógrád is shown in the biggest room. It begins with introducing the family, his childhood in Szklabonya, continuous with his school years, and the times spent in Balassagyarmat as a law student. Objects and local clothing represent this era. In 1872 Kálmán Mikszáth bided farewell to Szklabonya but the habitats of "Curved Country", the Palóc and Slovakia salute is from almost all his later writings. His novels were published both in Hungarian and Slovakian, probably not by chance; he was the second best read author in Slovakia after Jókai.
The visitors can find additional information on the computer in the room while films based on Mikszáth novels are shown on a plasma TV. Books and other publications related to the topic can be bought on location.
Kálmán Mikszáth was born on 16 January 1947 in Szklabonya. If searched, we would not find the house of his birth in the village since it was taken down in 1986. The house, however, where Kálmán Mikszáth spent his childhood and where he returned during school recess still exist.
Kálmán Mikszáth's family moved to the house opposite the cemetery in 1852. Formerly the local post office operated in the house which was reconstructed in 1978 and a memorial exhibition was set up in its three rooms. The Kálmán Mikszáth Memorial House was opened on 24 June 1978. A tablet on its wall and a bust in the yard commemorated the writer. The parents of Kálmán Mikszáth probably, but her sister definitely, are buried in the cemetery opposite the house.
The Slovakian Hungarian Culture Museum took the memorial house over from the Kékkő Toy and Puppet Museum in January 2003. After its reconstruction in 2005, a permanent exhibition presenting the life and work of Kálmán Mikszáth was opened in the house.
Two rooms looking in the street render the authentic atmosphere of the era. Contemporary furniture, personal articles, a prayer book edited by the priest József Székács on the table and a cross on the wall conjure up the life of the family. Looking out of the window, the visitors can see the grave of Kálmán Mikszáth's sister, Mariska with a red marble tombstone. In the next room, on the desk Kálmán Mikszáth's favourite book by Jókai, The History of the 20th century, a collection of pipes are placed while the shelves are full of books, the portrait of the writer's wife hungs on the wall with travel chests underneath.
Beside the interior, the exhibition wishes to demonstrate Kálmán Mikszáth's affection for the village, what Szklabonya meant to him, Nógrád and people in Nógrád. The history of Szklabonya and the house where the writer was born is shown in the hall.
The history of Mikszáth becoming a writer and his relationship to Nógrád is shown in the biggest room. It begins with introducing the family, his childhood in Szklabonya, continuous with his school years, and the times spent in Balassagyarmat as a law student. Objects and local clothing represent this era. In 1872 Kálmán Mikszáth bided farewell to Szklabonya but the habitats of "Curved Country", the Palóc and Slovakia salute is from almost all his later writings. His novels were published both in Hungarian and Slovakian, probably not by chance; he was the second best read author in Slovakia after Jókai.
The visitors can find additional information on the computer in the room while films based on Mikszáth novels are shown on a plasma TV. Books and other publications related to the topic can be bought on location.
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