Kiskun Museum

The Kiskun Museum is a local history museum, a public collection in Kiskunfélegyháza. It was founded in 1902 by Gyula Szalay, a teacher at the local high school, who became the museum's first "warden". The collection was placed in a separate building in 1912, in the upper part of the Greek House (according to some plans it would have been placed in the new town hall at that time), and then in 1939 moved to its present location, the former Kiskun Captaincy building.

The building

The Baroque building complex was built in 1753, and the main building was altered in 1772 and 1794, receiving an upper floor, thus acquiring its present form. In the headquarters of the Kiskun District Captaincy, an office and a prison operated, and here Sándor Rózsa was held captive.

Collections

The museum's collecting scope extends to artifacts related to the local history of Kiskunfélegyháza, religious monuments of Kiskunság, and archaeological remains of the region. Among its most important items are counted the Avar sword from Tiszatele, the Pákai Szarmata jewelry, and a numismatic collection consisting of 9,018 pieces.

Permanent exhibitions

Memories of Hungarian criminal law (Prison Exhibition) – Central Europe's unique prison history collection

Centuries of Kiskunfélegyháza – local history exhibition

Memories of religious life in Kiskunság – exhibition set up in the former prison chapel

The preserved past – People and folk in Félegyháza

Everyday life in the Árpád era

Fine arts collection: paintings by László Holló; paintings by Piroska Szántó – opened as a permanent exhibition on the second anniversary of the artist's death, August 2, 2000; graphics by Mihály Morell

Pajkos-Szabó windmill – folk monument, a windmill built in 1860 and installed in the museum courtyard from the city border (1962), with a particularly beautiful carved stone base.

Significant temporary exhibitions

Book of Books – Bible exhibition from the Bibles of monks, collectors and private families within the framework of the Year of the Bible, August 19 – October 30, 2008

Renaissance panopticon, 2008