Jósa András Múzeum

The Jósa András Museum is a county museum located in Nyíregyháza, the oldest cultural and scientific institution in Eastern Hungary. Its maintainer – together with the Sóstó Museum Village and the Kállay Collection – has been the Mayor's Office of the City of Nyíregyháza with County Rights since January 1, 2013. From February 1, 2022, it was temporarily closed, planned for two years.

Address

4400 Nyíregyháza, Benczúr tér 21.

The museum building was constructed in 1925 in a neoclassical style based on the plans of Kálmán Maróthy.

History

The Szabolcs County Archaeological Society and its collection was founded on December 1, 1868 in Nagykálló. Their first archaeological exhibition was held in 1899 in Nyíregyháza, at the county house, founded by archaeologist Jósa András, former chief physician of Szabolcs County, who became the namesake of the present museum in 1918. Between 1925 and 1948, Lajos Kiss, a Kossuth Prize‑winning folklorist, was the museum director and created the folklore collection. Lajos Kiss established the folklore research of the Nyírség region. Thanks to him, the former guild material of Nyíregyháza is visible.

From the 1950s onward, the local history, historical document, fine and applied arts, numismatic, and literary history collections grew.

Sóstó Museum Village

The Sóstó Museum Village, opened in 1979 near the Sóstó Spa, is an open‑air ethnographic museum covering about 10 hectares. Its task is the preservation of the traditional folk monuments, houses, economic and public buildings, and tools of rural life of the county’s ethnographic regions – Nyírség, Szatmár, the Beregi‑Tiszahát, the Rétköz, the Mezőség – as well as their scientific and educational processing and presentation for tourism.

Kállay Collection

The museum’s third unit is the Kállay Collection, operating here since November 2007, which, according to the will of its founder Dr. Kristóf Kállay, a chaplain of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, collects and exhibits the heritage of Hungary’s high and middle nobility.

Permanent exhibitions

Since the interior renovation, the Jósa András Museum, open again from the summer of 2008, has permanent exhibitions featuring archaeological and ethnographic displays.

Benczúr Gyula memorial exhibition

András Jósa Memorial Exhibition

Gyula Krúdy's Life and Times

The Nyíregyháza hussars – uniforms, weapons

Archaeological finds of the area from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages

The history of money from antiquity to the 17th century

The Newferrát Gold Treasure