Museum of Ethnography

The Pécs Museum of Ethnography preserves, researches and presents the material and spiritual culture of the Hungarian and minority folk groups of Baranya County. Here is the country's second largest textile collection. The museum is housed in a historic building protected as a monument, built around 1870 in Romantic style.

The folk furniture, ceramics and sacred collections are indeed impressive. Among the exhibited textiles we find early aristocratic embroideries, 18th‑century needlework, fine courtly weavings and the complete costumes of the Baranya folk groups.

Part of the museum's collection comes from the City Museum of Dr. Imre Majorossy, founded in 1898. It gathers all material and spiritual remnants of folk culture. The material, numbering about 30,000 objects, includes the country's second largest textile collection, within which is the 10,000‑item Zsolnay‑Mattyasovszky collection.

It has a substantial photographic collection and database consisting of more than 50,000 photographs.

In 1907 the collection of Imre Lukácsy, a Reformed pastor from Diósviszló, formed the basis of the museum, presenting courtly ethnographic elements. Two years later, with state assistance, Arnold Marosi collected ethnographic objects. The museum was originally at 11 Rákóczi Street, then moved to its present location in 1933. In 1949 the county museum was nationalized and the archaeological and ethnographic materials were merged.

In 1949 Janos Kodolányi was appointed as a specialist to the ethnographic department. By 2003 it became the country's second largest ethnographic collection.