Museum - Country Museum of Borsod

The museum building consists of houses and farm-buildings which are themselves the untouched representatives of the popular architecture tipical to the area. The buildings of the museum were bought by the town separately in 1987, 1997 and 2000. The so-called Szathmáry-Horkay house was built in the 1860'ies,and was renovated into its present shape in 1909.

Permanent exhibitions

Book and Book History Collection from the Valley of Bódva

The material located in the so-called "back house" was collected by the manager of the County Library Imre Slezsák (1932-2002) and Béla Augusztinyi.

The Kachelmann textile collection was donated to the museum in 1996 by Róbert Kachelmann, who used to collect the shopped through decades hived the needleworks of hos relatives. He also purchased some of these works. This collection became the treasury of the needleworks of the past 200 years. Mainly civilian textiles, costumes, but a considerable amount of homespuns and and embroideries can also be found. The lace material is also an important part of the collection.

Famous people in Edelényből and Bódva valley

Reading club room from between the two world wars

The Bódva-valley Library- and Library historical collection is one of a rugged fate. Its collecting work was supervised by the former directors of the former library collection (Imre Slezsák and Béla Augusztinyi. The collection was first exhibited in Trízsben, then later in Égerszögön. In 1998 it was placed in the Ragályi Tamás library of Borsod.

further exhibitions