Déri Museum
Neo-Baroque museum holding Munkácsy's Christ trilogy plus Egyptian, Asian and ethnographic collections.
The museum grew out of the collection of Frigyes Déri, a Hungarian-born silk manufacturer living in Vienna, who gave his holdings to Debrecen in 1920 on condition that the city build a home for them. Construction started in 1926 in the former botanical garden to designs by Dénes Györgyi and Aladár Münnich, and the neo-Baroque cultural palace opened on 25 May 1930. Four allegorical bronzes by the Debrecen-born sculptor Ferenc Medgyessy, representing Archaeology, Science, Art and Ethnography, stand on the terrace in front.
The permanent displays cover the archaeology and history of the Hajdúság, the folk life of the Great Plain, arms and armour, numismatics and Déri's own Egyptian, Japanese and Chinese material, including a Late Period coffin. The best-known room holds Mihály Munkácsy's monumental trilogy of Christ before Pilate, Golgotha and Ecce Homo, shown together in a purpose-lit gallery. The museum also runs the House of Literature in Debrecen and mounts a regular programme of temporary exhibitions.
Highlights
- Munkácsy's Christ trilogy shown together in one hall
- Medgyessy's four allegorical bronzes on the terrace
- Egyptian collection with a Late Period coffin
- Folk life and archaeology of the Great Plain
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