Postamúzeum – Balatonszemes
The Balatonszemes exhibition site of the Postamúzeum presents the history of postal transport with original vehicles and models, in a former post-horse relay station.
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About the museum
The Balatonszemes exhibition site operates in a building erected in the last quarter of the 18th century as the stable of the postal horse-relay station on the Szemes estate of the Hunyady family. Since 1962 the building has housed the exhibitions of the Postamúzeum (Postal Museum). The railway travelling post-office carriage placed here and the newly built carriage shed later made the site a thematic exhibition site on the history of transport.
The exhibition currently on view, “Kocsiszekértől az elektromobilig – a postai szállítás története” (“From Horse-Drawn Carts to Electric Vehicles – The History of Postal Transport”), presents the finest pieces of the Postamúzeum’s vehicle collection. Using original vehicles and models, as well as audio and moving-image content, it traces the history, technical development and changing fields of use of the vehicles used for postal services. In the garden stands the communications memorial by the sculptor Trischler Ferenc, which commemorates postal workers and telecommunications staff who died in the course of their service.
Highlights
- The history of postal transport from horse-drawn carts to electric vehicles
- Original vehicles and models
- Railway travelling post-office carriage
- Building of the former postal horse-relay station
- Trischler Ferenc’s communications memorial in the garden
Permanent exhibition
- Kocsiszekértől az elektromobilig – a postai szállítás története – The finest pieces of the Postamúzeum’s vehicle collection: original vehicles and models, with audio and moving-image content on the development of postal transport.
- Founded
- 1962
- Operated by
- Postamúzeum
Admission & discounts
| Adults | HUF 1,000 |
|---|---|
| Reduced | HUF 700students, pensioners and postal workers |
| Seniors | HUF 700 |
| Visitors with disabilities | freePersons with disabilities are admitted free of charge. |
| Students & apprentices | HUF 700 |
| Groups (11+ people) | HUF 700 per personFor groups of more than 10 people, per person; students, pensioners and postal workers HUF 500 per person. |
| Families | HUF 2,000Two adults and two or three children. |
Free admission: Visitors over 70, people with disabilities, teachers and journalists are admitted free of charge (with proof of entitlement); on the national holiday falling in the opening period (20 August), admission is free for everyone.
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