Palóc Múzeum

About the museum

The founder of the museum was the historian Nagy Iván; collecting began in 1891 with the aim of gathering everything of historical, archaeological, natural or ethnographic significance relating to Nógrád County. Today the Palóc Múzeum operates as a member institution of the Hungarian National Museum and keeps ethnographic, literary, historical, photographic and archive collections in its building beside the Palóc grove.

Among the permanent exhibitions, “From the Cradle to the Grave” presents village life in Nógrád from the last third of the 19th century, with the customs of birth, marriage and death, folk belief and folk art. “The Library of a Learned Country Gentleman” recalls the library of the museum’s founder Nagy Iván and the events of Hungarian history with links to Nógrád. Behind the museum stand the Palóc House and its farm buildings: a three-section dwelling moved from the village of Karancskeszi in 1932, together with a stable, barn, oil press, chapel and roadside crucifix, forming the country’s first open-air collection. The museum also includes the Madách Memorial Room in the former county hall building.

Highlights

• From the Cradle to the Grave – peasant life in Nógrád
• Library of the scholarly country gentleman Nagy Iván
• Palóc House and open-air farm buildings
• Madách Memorial Room with editions of Az ember tragédiája (The Tragedy of Man)
• Display collection with more than a thousand objects

Permanent exhibitions

• Bölcsőtől a sírig – Paraszti ünnepek és hétköznapok Nógrád megyében – Peasant life in Nógrád County from the last third of the 19th century: customs of birth, marriage and death, folk belief and folk art objects, with archive photographs.
• Tudós köznemesi könyvtár – Nemzeti történelmünk tükre – Presentation of the library and study of the museum’s founder Nagy Iván, together with events of Hungarian history with links to Nógrád.
• Szabadtéri kiállítás – Palóc Ház és gazdasági épületek – Group of buildings presenting village construction and way of life in Nógrád in the 18th century, centred on the Palóc wooden house moved from Karancskeszi village in 1932.

Founded

1891

Operated by

Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum

Admission & discounts

Free admission: Children under 6 and EEA citizens over 70 may visit the permanent exhibition free of charge.

The Hungary Card gives two people a 50% discount on the full ticket price for a single visit. Organised full-time school groups are entitled to free rail travel.

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