Hansági Museum

Hansági Museum

— Szigetköz, Gönyű, Hanság

The neoclassical building with a colonnade is the location of the Hanság Museum, where there are both permanent  and temporary exhibitions showing the history of Moson Plain and Szigetköz as regards to archeology, local history and contemporary art.

In the decades following its foundation, the museum's collection was almost exclusively limited to archaeological material. The Roman monuments of Magyaróvár and Oroszvár, the Lombard cemetery in Bezenye and the annexes of the Avar graves in Nemesvölgy are worth mentioning. Between the two world wars, the museum's right to excavate was terminated, so the collection was no longer enriched with archaeological finds. However, thanks to generous offerings and donations, the institution was able to develop further, and the exhibition was expanded to include fine arts, urban history, ethnography and natural science sections.

In 1982, the city's oldest listed building, the Cselley House (Fő út 19), was taken over by the museum, which currently serves as the center of the institution. A Roman stone repository was created in the basement of the building, and in the exhibition rooms upstairs, dr. Tibor Gyurkovich's rich collection can be seen, featuring the works of the most important artists of 19th-century Hungarian painting. The interiors are showcasing the fine and applied arts of the 17th-19th centuries.