The people of Tápa made a living from the river Tisza. Several times floods chased them away, but as soon as the danger was over, they returned to make carpets, bags and roofs from the bulrush that grew here. Tápé is the richest isle of the region of Szeged. Science dates it back to 1138, but higher hills were inhabited as early as in the stone age." - said Sándor Bálint.

I started off my work of collection in 1967, on the encouragement of Sándor Bálint. Four years later Gyula Ortutay himself visited my collection, the specialty of which is that I obtained all of its items in Tápé. Stock book is kept of the relics and the thousands of black and white negatives and slides, which talk about the past of Tápé together.

The old villages soon attracted the interest of the educated world. Writers, poets and painters had a high regard for it. A work-group wrote a monography about the history and ethnography of Tápé. My collection represents the Catholic faith, the bulrush procession, fishing, dressing, land cultivating and other traditions of the generations that lived here.

The exhibition is supplemented by models of some houses and the church. Some pictures of Sándor Bálint are aslo displayed, a few of which were taken in Tápé.

József Lele