These houses can teach you about Hungarian ethnography – Photos

A village museum or, as Hungarians call it, a ‘Skanzen’, is a good opportunity for learning about how people lived in the past. See the typical houses and the equipment that they used in their everyday life. Let’s see some of Hungary’s excellent village museums.

Ópusztaszer Outdoor Ethnographical Museum

Ópusztaszer’s museum includes nineteen buildings and three outdoor exhibitions. One is the South-Lowland’s folk-architectural characteristics from 1850 to 1930.

Here, you can learn about village life and the different old professions which do not exist today. Anyone can have a glance inside the 19th- and 20th-century schools, the post office, even a grocery shop. It is also worth visiting the windmill and bakery store, or the Csillagösvény Maze. In the spring and the summer, one can take part in cooking or grilling programs and activities, which resemble the old ones. Going around the collections in Ópusztaszer, you can learn a lot about the peasants’ life in this era.

Szentendre Outdoor Ethnographical Museum

Hungary’s biggest outdoor ethnographical collection and museum has been operating since 1967 in Szentendre. One can find the most characteristic folk architecture of different Hungarian landscapes and typical homes of society’s various layers.

The “Szentendre skanzen”, as Hungarians call it, represents the country’s typical lifestyle in about 400 buildings of 10 ethnographic landscapes. The museum covers the era between the 18th and the middle of the 20th century.