Tiszazugi Földrajzi Múzeum

About the museum

The Tiszazugi Földrajzi Múzeum was founded in 1956 by Dr. Varga Lajos, a geography and history teacher at the Hajnóczy József Gimnázium in Tiszaföldvár, as an institution unique in the region. The founder led it for nine years, and from 1963 he organised the Odorvár research camp together with a colleague; the camp still operates today. In 2006 the museum moved into the converted former primary school building at 101 Kossuth utca.

The interactive, family-friendly permanent exhibition “Tiszavilág – Táj és ember a Tiszazugban” (Tiszavilág – Landscape and People of the Tiszazug) opened in 2009 in two rooms, together with a hall for temporary exhibitions in the main building. The outdoor activity building, which also hosts events, was completed in 2010. The Kossuth House, a former steward’s house built at the end of the 18th century in the museum’s courtyard, was renovated in 2012 and can be visited as a study storeroom: almost a third of the storeroom material is shown here in a thematic arrangement, including the Ice Age animal bone collection of some three hundred pieces.

The study and museum adventure garden behind the Kossuth House developed between 2016 and 2024, with a trodden trail, a mammoth-bone search, a playground, a music area and a stone park unique on the Great Plain. Since September 2020 the museum has also run the nearby house at 95 Kossuth út as a village heritage house under the name Tiszazugi otthonok (Homes of the Tiszazug); this bourgeois home commemorates the history of the family, as well as the deportations of the 1950s and the emigration of 1956.

Highlights

• Tiszavilág: an interactive, family-friendly permanent exhibition on the landscape and people of the Tiszazug
• Ice Age animal bone collection in the study storeroom of the Kossuth House
• Adventure garden with a playground, mammoth-bone search and stone park
• Tiszazugi otthonok: bourgeois village heritage house at 95 Kossuth út
• Museum education sessions on the Ice Age and fossils

Permanent exhibitions

• Tiszavilág – Táj és ember a Tiszazugban – Interactive, family-friendly permanent exhibition in two rooms on the natural and human world of the Tiszazug.
• Tanulmányi raktár a Kossuth-házban – Almost a third of the museum’s storeroom material in a thematic arrangement, including the Ice Age animal bone collection of some three hundred pieces.
• Tiszazugi otthonok – Village heritage house showing a bourgeois home at 95 Kossuth út, with memories of the deportations and the 1956 emigration, a seamstress’s workshop and a photo studio.

Founded

1956

Admission & discounts

Accessibility

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Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Family tours & workshops
• Hands-on stations
• Playground / play area

Family-friendly interactive exhibition, adventure garden with playground, trodden trail, mammoth-bone search game, music area and stone park; family tickets are available.

Getting there & parking

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Amenities & dining

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Events & venue rental

• Spaces for rent

Up to 80 guests.

The teaching room (24–26 people with tables, 50 without tables; projector and interactive board) and a covered outdoor stage (50–80 people with tables) can be rented for conferences, training courses, receptions and concerts.

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