Museum - Tokaj Museum

Tokaj Museum has been operating as a region museum since 1962. The institute serves as the main scientific basis of many conferences held in the area. Its permanent exhibition was opened in 1985 in a renovated building that had been a Greek trading house before. The museum collects relics of regional history, ethnography and fine arts.

Permanent exhibitions

Ecclesiological Exhibition

One of the most spectacular and the most valuable unit of the museum’s permanent exhibition is the ecclesiological exhibition on the first floor. Mr. Béla Béres, a priest from Tokaj offered his 800 pieces collection to his favourite town’s museum in 1981.

Museum Garden

Stone Store, The Remembrance Place of Russian-Hungarian

In the open-air garden stone store, beside some legendary bread stones which were sung by Elek Benedek, some cannonballs, millstones, a water- filter, the memorial tablet of the exploded Tokaj Bridge and a patrician tombstone got a place.

The Archeological Recollections of Tokaj Castle

The biggest and the most famous castle of Tokaj history is the Rákóczi Castle. It was on an ’island’ in the convergence of River Tisza and Bodrog. The archeological excavation started in 2007, is said to be fantastic.

Hidden Treasures from the Collection of Tokaj Museum

Upstairs, in this chamber room, the nice guest can see the most valuable treasures of Tokaj town: the original certificates of some Hungarian kings, namely Rudolf II. from 1598, Matthias II. from 1610 and Lipót I. from 1657.

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