Ferenc Móra Museum
Neoclassical Palace of Public Culture by the Tisza, with archaeology, art and natural history displays.
Szeged founded a municipal museum in 1883, and after the great flood of 1879 the rebuilt city gave it a permanent home. The Palace of Public Culture, designed by Antal Steinhardt and Adolf Láng, was completed in 1896 on the bank of the Tisza beside the inner-city bridge; the pediment inscription dedicates it to public education. Exhibitions opened there in 1899, shared at first with the Somogyi Library. The institution was named after the writer and archaeologist Ferenc Móra, its director from 1917 to 1934, in 1950.
The permanent displays cover the archaeology of the Great Plain, including Avar and Hungarian conquest-period finds, fine art, folk life, natural history and the history of pharmacy. A long-running Ice Age display shows chipped stone tools together with reconstructed skulls and burials and a treatment of the Altamira cave paintings. The museum also runs branches in the city, among them the Castle Museum in the surviving fortress tower, the Black House and the Mátyás Varga stage-design collection.
Highlights
- Avar and conquest-period archaeology of the Great Plain
- Ice Age display with reconstructed skulls and burials
- Neoclassical 1896 palace beside the Tisza
- Branches including the Castle Museum and Black House
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