Kiss Pál Múzeum

About the museum

The institution is one of the oldest provincial museums in the country. It was founded in 1877 from the Tiszafüred Regional Archaeological Society, whose establishment was initiated by the Roman Catholic parish priest Tariczky Endre, while the Reformed teacher Milesz Béla documented the finds collected. The society aimed to excavate antiquities and disseminate archaeological knowledge, and its collecting area extended over the middle Tisza. From 1896 it operated as the Múzeum- és Könyvtáregylet (Museum and Library Society); its collection was housed in rooms on the upper floor of the town hall.

During the World War a considerable part of the collection was lost, and the coin and antiquities collection was almost entirely destroyed. The surviving material was reorganised after the war, and in 1952 the institution moved into the listed classicist mansion built by the Lipcsey family in the first half of the 19th century, when it took the name of Kiss Pál, an honvéd major-general. The mansion is surrounded by a fine park of old trees.

The museum and its branch, the Nyúzó Gáspár Fazekas Tájház (Nyúzó Gáspár Potter's Heritage House), is the only museum institution with an operating licence in the immediate area of Lake Tisza. Its permanent exhibitions guide visitors from Ice Age animal remains, through archaeological finds and the ethnographic material of Tiszafüred's small crafts, to the history of the 18th and 19th centuries. The ethnographic exhibition, opened in 2001, presents the renowned saddle-making, pottery and furniture painting of Füred.

Highlights

• Lipcsey mansion with a park of old trees in the capital of Lake Tisza
• “Városunk 7000 éve rejtőzködő kincsei” (Our Town's Treasures Hidden for 7000 Years) archaeological exhibition
• Ice Age adventures on the banks of the Tisza
• “Mesterek és mesterművek” (Masters and Masterpieces) – Füred saddle-making, pottery, painted furniture
• The events of 1848–49 in Tiszafüred
• Combined ticket with the Tájház and the Tiszaörvény exhibition

Permanent exhibitions

• Mesterek és mesterművek – Tiszafüred művészi kisipara és háziipara – The ethnographic exhibition follows the history of Tiszafüred from the resettlement at the end of the 17th century and presents the renowned saddle-making, pottery, painted furniture, weaving and embroidery of Füred.
• Városunk 7000 éve rejtőzködő kincsei – The archaeological finds unearthed at Tiszafüred, from the excavations of Tariczky Endre to the excavations preceding the construction of Lake Tisza.
• Jégkorszaki kalandozások a Tisza-partján – The museum presents Ice Age and Neolithic to Bronze Age animal bone remains and hunting tools, with sessions for children.

Founded

1877

Director

Dr. Mester Edit

Admission & discounts

Free admission to the exhibitions for children under 6 who are EEA citizens, for persons with disabilities and one companion, for teachers, and for holders of a professional pass and of membership in a national public collection organisation.

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Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Family tours & workshops
• Hands-on stations

Costumed museum education and craft sessions accompany the Ice Age exhibition; in the excavation chest, children can try out being an archaeologist (“Legyél Te is régész!” – Be an archaeologist too!).

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