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2024.04.20. - 2024.11.24.
Budapest
2023.12.15. - 2024.02.18.
Budapest
2023.11.16. - 2024.01.21.
Budapest
2023.11.09. - 2024.03.17.
Budapest
2023.10.27. - 2024.02.11.
Budapest
2023.10.18. - 2024.02.18.
Budapest
2023.09.22. - 2024.01.21.
Budapest
2012.03.01. - 2012.03.31.
Vác
2012.02.01. - 2012.02.29.
Miskolc
2012.01.22. - 1970.01.01.
Budapest
2011.10.04. - 1970.01.01.
Nagykáta
2011.10.01. - 1970.01.01.
Nagykáta
2011.10.01. - 1970.01.01.
Nagykáta
2011.09.30. - 1970.01.01.
Nagykáta
2011.09.30. - 1970.01.01.
Nagykáta
2011.07.04. - 2011.07.08.
Budapest
Abasar Kapás House - Abasár
The museum building
Address: 3261, Abasár Múzeum út 15.
Phone number: (37) 360-896
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 10-15
According to traditions, the house was built 200 years ago. Its walls were made with clay and straw mortal, its ridge-roof is covered with reed, its facade had three shafts. The positions of the room and the kitchen are in accordance with traditional order. It is furnished with objects fashionable at the beginning of the 20th century. The objects represent families involved in viniculture.

A one-sided chimney and a fire bench can be found in the kitchen. Among the objects of cooking and baking, the audience can see a three-legged iron and tile bowl, iron cooking pots and bread baking dishes. The earthenware were brought to the fair from the potter center of Gömör, the pots are a significant group among them. The cooking pot made of fireproof material was apt for making food that had to be cooked on slow and even fire. It was also used on open fire or in a furnace, sometimes on a fire bench where the fire was set around the pot on both sides.

Among the equipments of the furnace the visitors may see the fire remover leaning to the wall and a wind blower as well. Among the equipments of bread baking the dough-basket, calendar, leaven tree and a breaking spatula are shown. The kneading was begun to be prepared one day before baking. The next day early in the morning the woman kneaded in front of the 'kaszli'. In a family with six-seven children, 6-7 breads were made of about 20 kg flour.

An important equipment of the procession of milk is the churn in which the sour cream and the sour milk were beaten in a vertical direction when making butter. The number of the milk pots and jugs a family used depended on the number of the cows. They were placed on the jug tree, on the fence, in the kitchen or in the chamber. The oil was kept in the oil dish. Pot filters were also important part of a household. The plum jam was kept in glazed pots or in mugs.

Two water pitchers were placed on the water bench. Water jugs were not only used in the house but also in the fields. Long ago people walked to the fields with rattling jugs, and carried water and drink of the jug. On the opposite wall of the porch the ornamented plates from Bélapátfalva were kept.

The beds were situated parallel to each other in the first room. In front of them there were two chairs, the table was set in the middle and the bench behind. The 'big baking dish' bread was kept on the right end of the bench. Left to the door a large earthenware oven shaped like a pyramid with a mud sitting-bench was situated.

At wintertime women cooked in the 'house', more precisely in the room. The equipment are lined up on the 'machine'. The children loved to stay between the oven and the wall, a place called "szurdik" where they often fell asleep. The adults all slept in the same room. The young couple slept in one bed, the older son in another, the parents slept in the bed called 'diko' in the back of the room. After the birth of the baby the bed in which it was born was separated with a large bed sheet. The newborn baby stayed with the mother for a couple of weeks, and later was placed into a cradle. When she began to walk, she spent time in a playpen. Furniture called kaszli was situated on the opposite side. Bed sheets, towels and handkerchiefs were kept in its drawers, a cross, glasses, Little Mary, Saint Joseph or Saint Antony, honey cake from the fair and a mirror stood on top of it. The walls were ornamented with pictures and the heart of Jesus. The crossbeam provided space for the calendar and a razor.

The room with the mud floor was slightly watered and swept every morning. It was wet painted every Saturday. Loess was used to glue the floor together. Cow manure and loess were mixed into water. The mixture was used for painting the floor.

The foundings excavated in the monastery founded in the 11th century can be seen in the room left to the entrance. The iron equipments, the relics of the Abasár culture and documentation are displayed in the showcase of the museum.