Szatmári Múzeum

About the museum

The Szatmári Múzeum in Mátészalka opened its doors in 1975. Its aim is to collect, preserve and make accessible the intellectual and material heritage of the region, in the service of Szatmár research.

The museum’s most famous collection is the nearly hundred-strong stock of carts, wagons, carriages and sledges, the largest in Central Europe. All the basic types of Hungarian carts and their regional variants are displayed in a three-part, circular-panorama cart shed. The main building also houses exhibitions on woodcarvings from Szatmár-Bereg, shoemaking in Szatmár, the history of electrification, folk decorative art and interiors.

The museum also manages the Szalkai-Schwartz House, Hungary’s first electrified residential building, where the Tony Curtis Memorial Room, an exhibition on the history of electrification and a doll collection can be seen. The key to the synagogue in Mátészalka can be obtained at the museum.

Highlights

• Central Europe’s largest collection of carts, wagons and carriages
• Grassalkovich-type Victoria carriage and Eszterházy gala coach
• Woodcarvings from Szatmár-Bereg
• Szalkai-Schwartz House with the Tony Curtis Memorial Room
• Exhibition of painter Gábor Marianne and ceramicist Kertész Klára

Permanent exhibitions

• Kocsi- és hintógyűjtemény – Nearly a hundred carts, wagons, carriages and sledges, on the vehicles of rural goods transport and of civic and noble passenger travel.
• Szalkai-Schwartz-ház – Tony Curtis-emlékszoba – In Hungary’s first electrified residential building: a memorial room, an exhibition on the history of electrification and a doll collection.
• Szatmár-beregi fafaragások és népi díszítőművészet – In the main building: woodcarvings, Szatmár shoemaking, folk decorative art and an interior exhibition.

Founded

1975

Director

Cservenyák László

Admission & discounts

A ticket purchased is valid for all exhibitions in the Szalkai-Schwartz House and the Szatmári Múzeum.

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Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Family tours & workshops

Playful museum education sessions based on the collection, for kindergarten and primary school children.

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