Ferenczy Museum

The Ferenczy Museum (Ferenczy Museum Centre) was founded in 1951. Its address is Szentendre, Kossuth Lajos Street 5.

Building

The original main building of the Ferenczy Museum operated by the Ferenczy Museum Centre was built as an Orthodox Serbian school in 1794 in the Baroque style. Between 1812 and 1816 it housed a Serbian-language teacher training school. Based on the plans of Anna Cifka, it was expanded with a new wing in 1972. The inner courtyards surrounded by modern building wings are decorated with statues of Béni Ferenczy.

In 2010 the building returned to Serbian church ownership, and the county museum directorate offices were moved to the Main Square building, the so‑called Kereskedőház. After a two‑year temporary hiatus, the exhibition presenting the art of the Ferenczy family moved in 2012 to the Pajor Kúria.

The Ferenczy Museum was founded in 1951 and took its name from the painter Károly Ferenczy. Ferenczy lived and worked in Szentendre from 1889 to 1892; his twin children, Noémi, the later gobelin artist, and Béni, the later sculptor and medalist, were born there.

Collections

Among the museum's collections the most significant is the visual arts collection, which contains important works by the artist members of the Ferenczy family (Károly Ferenczy, Valér Ferenczy, Noémi Ferenczy, Béni Ferenczy) and works by other notable Szentendre creators.