Fekete István museum in Dombóvár

The Fekete István Museum is the first museum of the city of Dombóvár, located at 7200 Dombóvár, Hóvirág u. 25. (corner of Dália Street). It can be visited for free after registration.

History

The collection was founded by agricultural engineer and local historian Imre F. Bodó in 1995. On June 24, 1995 the museum was handed over; the 23rd was the 25th anniversary of the writer's death, and in the year of the handover he would have been 95 years old. On August 16, 1997 the first Dombóvár work of the Szekszárd sculptor Pál Farkas, born in Szeged, the bust of Fekete István, was unveiled. Also here on April 7, 2000, the life tree of the local woodcarver-folk artist János Bocz was placed, unveiled on the 100th anniversary of the writer's birth. Already in 2001 the museum had to be expanded with a small room, in 2011 the third room was completed, and by the end of November 2020 the fourth was handed over. In 2019 a granite memorial plaque was also made in memory of the writer's father.

Exhibitions

The writer's personal items and tools can be viewed, such as manuscripts, identity cards, certificates, diplomas, awards, poems, books, paintings of nature and models of animal characters: Vuk the fox, Kele the stork, Csí the swallow, Hú the owl, etc.

Works of painters Sándor Csonka, József Gulyás, Tibor Soós and Attila Szentkirályi, graphics by Sándor Ambrus, as well as looms (Fekete István's native village, Somogy County) decorate the museum.