Rómer Flóris Művészeti és Történeti Múzeum

About the museum

The predecessor of the museum was founded as an antiquities collection in 1859 at the Benedictine grammar school in Győr by the Benedictine teacher Rómer Flóris. The city museum and picture gallery were established in the 1930s, but much of their valuable material was taken abroad on the Gold Train at the end of the Second World War, and only a fraction returned in 1964.

From 1949 the collections were housed in the Apátúr House on Széchenyi tér, and from 1951 under the name Xántus János Múzeum. As the centre of the county museum network, the institution opened more and more exhibition venues: in 1957 the Vármúzeum (Castle Museum), in 1958 the Várkazamata–Kőtár (Castle Casemate – Lapidarium), in 1974 the Kovács Margit Collection, in 1979 the Borsos Miklós exhibition, in 1986 the Patkó Imre Collection and in 2008 the Fruhmann House.

In 1994 the city founded the Városi Művészeti Múzeum (City Art Museum) in the Magyar Ispita building, which in 2005 opened the exhibition of the Radnai Collection in the renovated Esterházy Palace. On 1 February 2013 the Xántus János Múzeum and the Városi Művészeti Múzeum merged: the new institution took the name Rómer Flóris Művészeti és Történeti Múzeum and operates under municipal maintenance with county competence.

Visitors today can find the collections in several buildings in the city centre; the central exhibition venue, the Esterházy Palace, stands at the north-west corner of Széchenyi tér.

Highlights

• Modern Árkádia: Hungarian art between the two world wars in the Radnai Collection
• Permanent exhibition of Borsos Miklós and Kovács Margit
• Patkó Imre Collection in the Vastuskós House
• Várkazamata–Kőtár in the former fortifications of the Győr castle
• The Warmth of Home: exhibition on the history of tiled stoves in the Fruhmann House

Permanent exhibitions

• Modern Árkádia – Két világháború közötti magyar művészet a Radnai-gyűjteményben – The Radnai Collection in the Esterházy Palace presents significant works of Hungarian painting and sculpture between the two world wars.
• Borsos Miklós állandó kiállítás – In the Püspöki udvarbíróház (Bishop’s Court House), the life’s work of the sculptor and medallist born in Győr is shown.
• Kovács Margit állandó kiállítás – In the Kreszta House visitors can see the works of the ceramic artist born in Győr.

Founded

1859

Director

Székely Zoltán

Admission & discounts

At the Esterházy Palace the ticket is valid for both the permanent and the temporary exhibitions. At the other exhibition venues (Püspöki udvarbíróház, Fruhmann House, Kreszta House, Vastuskós House, Magyar Ispita, Várkazamata–Kőtár) the full-price ticket is HUF 2,000, the reduced ticket HUF 1,000 and the family ticket HUF 4,500.

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