Lajos Kossuth Museum

The Kossuth Museum is the regional museum of the Pest County Museums Board in Cegléd, at Museum Street No. 5.

Here is the country's richest Kossuth collection, which preserves not only relics of Lajos Kossuth's life but also documents of the Kossuth cult of cultural-historical significance.

History, collections

The museum was founded in 1917. Its present building was constructed in 1907 for a bank, based on the plans of István Nagy junior, ten years earlier. The museum moved to its current location in 1956.

The institution's collecting area extends to the city of Cegléd and the surrounding settlements; it collects, preserves and processes their material memories and documents of their intellectual heritage. It possesses a rich archaeological, ethnographic, numismatic, fine arts collection and material concerning the local history of the settlements. Details from these are occasionally shown in temporary exhibitions.

The permanent exhibition

The museum's Kossuth collection is of national significance, part of which is presented in the permanent exhibition titled “Like a Mirror…”. The collection and the exhibition contain, among other things, relics of Lajos Kossuth's domestic state‑official activities and the years spent in exile, as well as documents of the Kossuth cult.

One famous sight of the exhibition arranged in the upstairs rooms is the Turini room, which displays the furniture and furnishings of Kossuth's Italian, Turin residence. An interesting cultural‑historical souvenir is the so‑called hundred‑person delegation panel. Kossuth, during his exile, was visited on 24 January 1877 by a delegation of 100 citizens of Cegléd. The panel shows photographs of Kossuth and the persons who took part in the event. In another showcase they keep Kossuth's death mask (Turin–Torino, 1894).