Mrs Iván Kovács warmly invites all those who love and are interested in Hungarian folk art to view her private ethnographic collection. Among other things, visitors can see a traditional kitchen corner, a summer open-air painting workshop where handmade small...
To mark the 155th anniversary of the birth of architect Marcell Komor, a special exhibition has opened at the Art Nouveau House. This permanent exhibition showcases the works of visual artist Anna Székely Komor. On display are porcelain painting designs...
The Szentes collection of the Szeged-based Railway History Foundation was established to preserve the memories of the railway’s rich past. Visitors are immediately greeted by a German Austin-type military railcar from the Second World War, exhibited in 2012, and then,...
The Szentes Gallery opened its doors to the public in 1974 with an exhibition of artists from Szentes and those who had moved away from the town. It is one of Hungary’s exhibition spaces built specifically for this purpose, so...
The Őze Lajos Memorial House – Comrade Virág’s RoomThe Őze Lajos Memorial House at the Koszta József Museum in Szentes offers visitors a unique experience: in one of the rooms, Comrade Virág’s legendary room from Péter Bacsó’s film “The Witness”...
In the first room, visitors can gain an overview of the Middle Ages, the period of Ottoman rule, and the Rákóczi War of Independence, before learning about the process by which the settlement became a town. Among other highlights, visitors...
Built in 1905 and renovated in 1997, the Fridrich Photography Museum (the museum’s industrial history exhibition space) is the country’s only rural photo museum. The building, which is a significant feature of the townscape, houses photographs, equipment, tools and instruments...
The Private Collection of Mrs László Pallagi. When she opened her exhibition in 2018, she displayed 400 pieces; since then, this number has grown to 700. Among the colourful figures, a few distinctive characters stand out: cheerful Venetian and Harlequin...
The Southern Great Plain Postal History Memorial Room is housed in the Post Office building on the town’s main street. The exhibition was established in 2003 by a group of postal workers as the result of several decades of collecting....
The Gyuricza Vintage Vehicle and Antiques Museum is an unmissable exhibition venue when strolling through the town centre. We find ourselves transported to a forgotten world that preserves a small island of the past. The gleaming chrome and marvellous designs...
One of Szentes’s oldest brick houses, built around 1830, was originally a prestigious town house; one of the Károlyi family’s stewards lived here, and indeed, oral tradition holds that Petőfi’s father-in-law, Ignác Szendrey, also resided here. From around 1920, Péter...
Due to the growth of the Catholic population in Szentes, a need arose in the Felsőpárt district for the construction of a new church. In a decree issued in 1920, the Bishop of Vác called for the division of the...
