Wine has seemed to be increasingly popular in the recent past. More and more regions focus on viniculture and tourism related to wine culture. In addition, several books on wine regions and wine production have been published recently. Our exhibition is about wine, the "medicine of body and soul". However, represented from an unusual angle.

We deal with the sacred relations of wine beginning with the well know sentence from the "last Supper": "This is my blood".

Grape and wine have been important elements in the life of religious people. It is shown by the patron saints who guarded the yield from weather.

Wine was also used in medicine in meny ways. Even Hippocrates describes wine as "the drink of drinks, the most useful, the best tasting medicine, the most taste of meals". Until the middle of the 20th century, wine was a basic requisite to be found in pharmacies. In gastronomy, it is still considered a basic ingredient, just like in the past. Recipe books written in the 17-19th centuries are good example of that.

The exhibition presents masterpieces of applied art related to wine consumption: products from the Zsolnay factory, engraved glasses from the 17-18th century, products from glass challises, Spanish, Italian Austrian, Czech and Hungarian workshops, the silver wine cooler used by members of the Habsburg-Lothringan House. The oldest pieces shown are a wine chalice used during early Christian period and an arrow used by the Avar with vine motive ornament.

Products from the Littke Pezsgőház introduce the visitors to the beginning of Champaign production in Pécs and viniculture in the Pécs region. The context is represented by large photos and the furnishing of a press house in the 19th century. A professionally laid table invites the visitors to taste wine.