Dunamente Turisztikai Térség

Coach Museum - Kocs

Who doesn’t know the Hungarian word "kocsi"? However, only few people know that the roots of the popular four-wheeled wagon derived from the village of Kocs, where, due to the cartwrights living in the time of King Matthias, a more springy, an easier to steer "coach" was born out of the uncomfortable wagon. This famous invention of the 15th century and the craftsmen who made the coaches are commemorated in the village Coach Museum and celebrated every year at the International Coach Pushing Festival in July.

Samu's home, or the prehistoric settlement of Vértesszőlős

The oldest archeological site in Hungary, more than 300 thousand years old, has been excavated at the Vértesszőlős travertine mine. The open-air exhibition site of the Hungarian National Museum presents the special archaeological, anthropological and paleontological remains and their environment. The two excavated and unearthed sites, with millions of stoneware found, fire places fed with greasy bones, bones of hunted animals and human milk teeth and a nape bone, provide a unique picture of the life of an early, so-called Heidelberg-type man. Leaf and crop traces derived from the mine, as well as the preserved footprints of animals collected at the once muddy watering site, reflect the natural environment.

Open-Air Mining and Industrial Museum - Tatabánya

The open-air mining exhibition created at the last mine in the coal basin, Mine XV, and it is completed by the building complex of the former mine. In addition to mining tools and machines, we can also have an insight into the everyday life of mining families.
On the museum site you can see a number of mining quarries, gears, transport vehicles, as well as you can descend into an underground mining shaft, and see the original, more than 100-year-old mine tower with the machine house. The old office buildings have various exhibitions, with minerals, fossils, a reconstructed management office, a lamp store house and name rolls.
Not far from the graceful water tower, there is the old dressing and bathhouse, where the Munkácsy Prize-winning sculptor, known for his extreme industrial instruments and sound sculptures, Viktor Lois’s permanent exhibition called Sound Bath is exhibited.
The most popular part of the open-air museum is the two old six-apartment buildings for miners, the so-called hatajtósok (six-door buildings). The furnished apartments in one of the six-door buildings provide insights into the everyday life of different layers of miners from the early 1900s to the 1960s. The other six-apartment building, the House of Crafts, is home to a shoemaker, with a mini shoe collection, a real retro hairdressing salon, a photographer's studio, a convenience store, a bakery, just naming a few. The house, which links the two six-door buildings, accommodates a school history exhibition with two historically furnished classrooms, one from the 1920-30s and the other one is from the familiar 1960-70s. In the neighborhood of the six-door buildings is the former mining director's house, which retains its original form and gives an idea of the living conditions and housing culture of the officials.

Mining Museum - Oroszlány-Majkpuszta

The museum is located a few hundred meters away from the Camaldolese Hermitage on the outskirts of the town. During the gradual closure of the nearby coal mines, the typical mechanical and mining relics of the Oroszlány coal basin were collected here. What awaits visitors here? Explore the depths of the earth, travel through time in an original dispatcher center, take a mini train with original mine waggons, excitement in the escape room and explore the wild forests of the Vértes Nature Park from the top of the former mine tower.

Roman and Ethnographic Museum Celemantia - Izsa / Iža 

In Iža you can find Kelemantia Roman and Ethnographic Museum, which was opened in 2013. The marble plaque placed on the wall of the building was offered by the village in memory of János Tóth-Kurucz, who was born in Iža. He began the excavations in Kelemantia dates back to the beginning of the last century. The Roman exhibition also presents a slice of his work, with original manuscripts and personal items. The Danube Museum has been very helpful in compiling the exhibition, and many objects come from its collection. In addition to utility and liturgical objects, the ethnographic exhibition also presents the history of the local embroidery industry, which spread from the neighboring Chotín to Iža in the late 19th century. Visitors can admire eye-catching pieces made with intricate embroidery and azure. A craft workshop was built at the back of the building where they could show, how the Romans lived and created. The building also hosts children's camps and Roman camps in the summer.

Babits Memorial House – Esztergom

In 1924 Mihály Babits, an outstanding personality of 20th-century Hungarian literature, began spending his summers in Esztergom after he and his wife (Ilona Tanner, pen-name Sophie Török) had managed to buy a summer house. They extended the cottage, which originally consisted of one room and a kitchen, adding new rooms from one year to the next. After the poet’s death it turned into a “haunted house”. His widow no longer spent her time there and as a result the condition of the building rapidly deteriorated. In 1960 its fate took a turn for the better: it became a nationally protected building and its renovation was planned. It opened as a literary memorial place and museum for fans of literature and other visitors in 1961. From its porch a splendid view opens to Esztergom’s Castle Hill, the Basilica and the Danube. While you are admiring the vista take a look at the large white wall which, as “an album of autographs”, preserves the memory of the former guests of the Babits family’s house. With their signatures on the wall, prominent writers, poets, literary scholars and artists rendered their visit immortal.

Slovak Village Museum - Vértesszőlős

For many decades, village life in Vértesszőlős has been characterized by outstanding cultural activities related to national minorities. One scene of this is the village museum, where the most valuable objects representing the folk traditions of the settlement are on display. In addition to the Slovak collection, visitors can also view Hungarian and Swabian (ethnic German) furniture, costume, and household items in the neatly arranged exhibition area.

János Thain Museum – Érsekújvár / Nové Zámky

Ján Thain Museum was named after the local painter, local historian, and folk art collector. Until his retirement, he was a teacher at the high school in Nové Zámky. He was also one of the founders of the City Museum in Nové Zámky and director from 1935 until the end of the World War II. He documented the folk art of Nové Zámky and its immediate surroundings. A publication of his drawings appeared only long after his death. The museum also suffered massive damage from the bombing of the city.

The basis of the museum's activities is the research and documentation of Nové Zámky and its surroundings in the relevant disciplines.

Danube Region Museum – Komárno

The Danube Museum in Komárno is one of the most important centers of Hungarian culture in Slovakia, and also boasts the richest Roman collection in Slovakia. A selection from the earliest and most valuable works of the collections of the fine arts from the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century can be seen in the Ceremonial Hall of the museum. The oil paintings by Árpád Feszty entitled The Battle at Bánhida (1897 – 1898) and The Earthquake in Komárom in 1763 by Karl Friedl belong to the most noteworthy works of the gallery.

Permanent exhibitions of the museum:

The historical development of Komárno and its environs from the prehistoric age until 1849 and the ethnography of the region - There can be seen a selection from the museum´s archeological collections in the first three rooms of the exhibition. The Celtic, the Roman and the late- Avar finds are more remarkable. In the next two rooms guild relics, things from the times of the Turkish expansion and others connected with the history of the Komárom castle can be found.
Permanent exhibition of the painter Károly Harmos from Komárno - between the two world wars he worked in Komárno as a painter and drawing teacher, as well as the organizer of the city's cultural and artistic life.

The basic tasks of the museum:

• to document the development and present state of society in the area of Komárno district,
• to document the wildlife of the southern areas of the Danube plain,
• to research and document the history, ethnography, cultural history and interethnic relations of the Hungarian population living in the territory of Nitra County
• to research and document of Roman relics in the Komárno district.
  

Village Museum – Moča

 We can see an excellent etnographic and regional collection in this museum, and according to the interest the exhibition can be completed also with interactive programs. The visitors can discover the colourful and rich world of the old peasant culture. When we see the material and spiritual products of our folk culture, there opens a world where the people lived in a real community-spirit, next to each other in near relationships, helping and reliant to each other, where they respected one another. We can follow the values they created by their hands, nothing went into waste. The culture of the old village community truly shows the enormous, former value of the family because young people acquired their future crafts prevailingly within the frame of their families. We can say, that they were born into the traditions, everybody had his intended place and tasks. The order of life determined the activities from day to day, from one season to another. If we go through the rooms we obtain information about the means of farming, traditions of our ancestors, we can follow the village-development, the fight of the village people for their survival. The present exhibition deals with four themes:

The development of the population and the village history
Important personalities of the village
The „ship-mills“, millars on the River Danube
Destinies of the villeins

Country House and Archaeological Museum – Szőgyén / Svodín

It was housed in one of the former farmhouses, which, with its huge farmyard and outbuildings, seemed particularly suitable for this purpose. It was opened on October 14, 2005, as a branch of the János Thain Museum in Nové Zámky. On the side of the house is the extended roof, from which it is possible to enter the living quarters and the barn. The barn is at the end of the house. The attic driveway was formed at the back wall of the barn, and behind it stood the barn. It is typically a multifunctional building. At the end of the barn is the press house, the cellar entrance led from the courtyard.The building opposite the house consists of two parts. The summer kitchen is in front, they cooked here from spring to autumn, and the family members stayed here during the day as well. Dirty housework was also done here. At the back, the granary was housed where the grain crop was stored. There is a wheeled well in front of the door of the summer kitchen, and masonry sheds line the granary. A gate opens from the back of the courtyard.

The Archaeological Museum is located next to the country house. Archaeologists of the Slovak National Museum excavated the remains of the destroyed St. Michael 's Church and an even older church on its site between 1995 and 2001. As interesting and instructive findings were found, the municipality decided to present the results of this research to the public in the form of an exhibition. To this end, he bought another building next to the country house. It is a one-storey, rectangular house with a pillared corridor facing the courtyard. In its three rooms visitors can view the results of the archaeological research.

György Klapka Museum – Komárom

 As of the 1990s, through the excavations and preservation of archaeological remains started in the area of the Brigetio, the collection grew so fast that it induced the foundation of a museum. With the support of the city the main building of the György Klapka Museum was opened in 1996, where you may visit the permanent exhibition presenting the Roman era history of Komárom. The building also houses a temporary exhibition room, where visual and applied arts, ethnographic and local history exhibitions related to the city are organized. Three other exhibition also belong to the museum: the Hungarian maritime history collection of DDr.Ferenc Juba, the memorial room dedicated to the legendary football player Zoltán Czibor and the Roman Rock Collection located in Fort Igmánd.

Hungarian maritime history collection

It is an exhibition on Hungarian trade and shipping history. The two anchors on either side of the museum entrance commemorate the first Hungarian Danube cruise ships, the Budapest and the Szeged. The collection, which covers the period from the mid-13th century to the end of the Second World War, was donated to the city of Komárom by Ferenc Juba in 1987. The exhibition, which includes hundreds of documents, photographs, nautical equipment, sailors' memorabilia and uniforms, was redesigned in 1997. At the same time, a stylised ship deck and a captain's cabin were added, showing the life of seafarers with the help of original relics.

The memorial room of Zoltán Czibor

The word-famous football player, who was the member of the legendary Football Gold team, inheritances are exhabitied in the memorial room.