Völgységi Múzeum

About the museum

The Völgységi Múzeum opened in Bonyhád as a regional museum on 1 April 1987. Since then it has organised several hundred exhibitions and keeps more than ten thousand objects from the heritage and memories of the Völgység. The main building of the museum is a late-Baroque, classicist, two-storey residential house on Szabadság tér, built by the Nunkovits family at the end of the 18th century; the family coat of arms can still be seen on its façade. After nationalisation it was used as a residential building, and then the museum moved in.

The permanent exhibition, “Ház és ember a Völgységben” (House and People in the Völgység), presents the region’s past from its medieval antecedents to the modern age, its industry (viticulture, printing works, an enamel factory, a shoe factory) and its population (Hungarians, Germans, Bukovina Székelys, Hungarians from Upper Hungary). The Fire Museum stands on the same site as the main building and presents the early fire protection of the guilds and of the firefighters operating in the settlements.

Further exhibition sites belong to the museum: the Perczel Memorial Room, the Óvoda Múzeum (Kindergarten Museum) and the Ermel–Vojnits Mausoleum. The museum is the professional partner of the Wosinsky Mór Múzeum in Szekszárd and the Janus Pannonius Múzeum in Pécs.

Highlights

• House and People in the Völgység – the permanent exhibition
• “Tűzre, vízre vigyázzatok!” (Beware of Fire and Water!) – the Fire Museum exhibition
• Interactive exhibition space with old objects to try out
• Perczel Memorial Room and Kindergarten Museum
• Presentation of German, Bukovina and Upper Hungarian heritage

Permanent exhibitions

• Ház és ember a Völgységben – The permanent exhibition presents the past, the industry and the varied population of the Völgység, with touch-screen 3D castle reconstructions and objects to try out. Because the main building is being renovated, it has been temporarily closed to visitors since 13 October 2026.
• Tűzre, vízre vigyázzatok! – The Fire Museum exhibition presents fire protection in the times before organised fire brigades, mainly the fire service of the guilds, and old fire engines.

Founded

1987

Admission & discounts

Admission is free for children under 6, people over 70, teachers, people with disabilities and their companions, and members of the public collections’ trade union. Students of Bonyhád educational institutions can visit the museum free of charge. The ticket prices also apply to the Fire Museum and the Ermel–Vojnits Mausoleum.

Accessibility

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Kids & families

• Family tours & workshops
• Hands-on stations

Interactive exhibition space with objects to try out (barrel organ, record player, period clothes), and interactive and craft museum education sessions.

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