Magyar Olaj- és Gázipari Múzeum

About the museum

The Magyar Olajipari Múzeum (Hungarian Oil Industry Museum) is a specialist museum with a national collecting remit, founded in 1969 to collect, process and present, in its exhibitions and publications, more than a hundred years of the history of Hungary's hydrocarbon industry. In 1993 it took over the Zsigmondy Vilmos Collection; since then it has also collected and preserved the historical relics of water mining alongside those of the hydrocarbon industry.

In Zalaegerszeg, next to the Göcseji Falumúzeum, the museum's permanent open-air exhibition covers 30,000 square metres, where visitors encounter the technical relics of the hydrocarbon industry: mining, processing and transport. The permanent exhibition halls explain the technological processes and history of the industry, and the oil industry sculpture park contains busts of outstanding technical specialists.

The exhibitions include the open-air technical heritage exhibition, an exhibition on the tools of water mining, a mineral and rock exhibition, an industrial demonstration exhibition, and an exhibition on the lives of Zsigmondy Vilmos and Zsigmondy Béla. The museum's collections, and a small exhibition set up in memory of the geologist Papp Simon, are in the building on Wlassics Gyula utca.

Highlights

• Open-air exhibition of technical relics of the hydrocarbon industry
• Oil industry sculpture park with busts of outstanding technical specialists
• Tools of water mining and the Zsigmondy Collection
• Mineral and rock exhibition, industrial demonstration exhibition
• Shared ticket with the neighbouring Göcseji Skanzen

Permanent exhibitions

• Szabadtéri kiállítás – Technical relics of mining, processing and transport in the hydrocarbon industry, on an open-air site of 30,000 square metres.
• Olajipari szoborpark – Busts of outstanding technical specialists in the open-air exhibition area.
• A vízbányászat eszközei – Historical relics of water mining from the material of the Zsigmondy Vilmos Collection.

Founded

1969

Admission & discounts

Free admission: 15 March, 20 August and 23 October.

The Göcseji Skanzen and the Magyar Olaj- és Gázipari Múzeum can be visited with a shared ticket; tickets bought for the Göcseji Falumúzeum are also valid.

Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible
• Elevator: no information
• Accessible restroom: no information
• Accessible parking: no information
• Service dogs welcome: no information
• Tactile models & exhibits
• Sign language tours: no information
• Easy-to-read materials: no information
• Audio description: no information

The exhibition halls of the open-air area can be visited independently or with little help, using concrete ramps. Most exhibits are at the eye level of wheelchair users, and the operable objects can be reached from a wheelchair. Many of the outdoor metal objects can be touched by hand.

Kids & families

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Getting there & parking

The exhibition is immediately west of the Göcseji Falumúzeum.

Amenities & dining

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Events & venue rental

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