10 Specialty Museums in Heves County That You Shouldn't Miss

The Matra Museum consists of the former Mansion of the Orczy family, a 2 hectares historic garden and a Natural History Pavilion. In the mansion shown the mammoth skeleton. In the main building of the museum four permanent exhibitions can be visited: hunting history, local history, minerals, fossils. Natural History Pavilion - There you can see the permanent exhibition of natural history.

The treasury of Saint Bertalan parish-church in Gyongyos is the second richest ecclesiastic collection in Hungary. Not only goldsmith works of great artistic value, goblets, soled crosses, shrines and images of the Lord are preserved in the treasury, but other objects, pictures, books, vestments and statues.

The monastery library - unique in the country, besides Pannonhalma has been standing on the same place since its foundation - can be found in the biggest Hungarian monastery of the Franciscan order of Gyongyos. A permanent exhibition on the life of the Franciscan Order can be visited in the entrance hall of the library.

The exhibition about numismatics named after Lajos Huszar wich has been donated by Miklos Dobal and is located at the Main square in Grassalkovich Mansion. The collection of coins and medallions tell us the thousand year history of Hungary starting with the coin of St. Istvan and ending with the recent ones.

Egri Road – Beatles Museum is located in the heart of the historic town of Eger. Guests can get a glimpse of the life and career of the band by up-to-date technical solutions. Newsreels are played and the songs of the band can be listened to, whereas contemporary publications, garments and rarities are displayed. Games and photo-taking activities take the visitors back to the legendary sixties.

The town of Heves boasts a rare valuable chess collection and museum. There are only 4 Chess Museums in the world, one of which is Heves. The other three are in Moscow, Frankfurt am Main, Rio de Janeiro. The collection began in 1958 and continues to this day. The institution has been operating since 24 February 1987 in Heves. The Chess Museum is open every day, Sunday and holidays from 8 am to 6 pm.