Museum - Tokaj Museum

Tokaj Museum has been operating as a region museum since 1962. The institute serves as the main scientific basis of many conferences held in the area. Its permanent exhibition was opened in 1985 in a renovated building that had been a Greek trading house before. The museum collects relics of regional history, ethnography and fine arts.

The first collection unit is made up by ecclesiastic relics. This collection is divided into two larger parts. A great variety of objects represent the North Hungarian provintial baroque ecclesiastic arts (paintings, corpus and applied arts collections). The other part consists of about 150 icons and other liturgic items connected to them. All these are further enriched by German incunabula and the products of the famous press of Nagyszombat.

The ethnographical collection consist of items regarding the grape and wine culture of the area. Traditional tools of grape cultivation are found here. There is a separate unit for displaying items of the cooper trade. There are relics connected to the transport and storing of the wine .

Permanent exhibitions

Hidden Treasures from the Collection of Tokaj Museum

Upstairs, in this chamber room, the nice guest can see the most valuable treasures of Tokaj town: the original certificates of some Hungarian kings, namely Rudolf II. from 1598, Matthias II. from 1610 and Lipót I. from 1657.

The Archeological Recollections of Tokaj Castle

The biggest and the most famous castle of Tokaj history is the Rákóczi Castle. It was on an ’island’ in the convergence of River Tisza and Bodrog. The archeological excavation started in 2007, is said to be fantastic.

Museum Cellar

In Tokaj it was common to build a cellar under or next to the houses. Under the Museum of Tokaj, according to the region’s traditions, there is a complex system of cellars.

Museum Garden

Stone Store, The Remembrance Place of Russian-Hungarian

In the open-air garden stone store, beside some legendary bread stones which were sung by Elek Benedek, some cannonballs, millstones, a water- filter, the memorial tablet of the exploded Tokaj Bridge and a patrician tombstone got a place.

further exhibitions