Móra Ferenc Múzeum
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| Established | 1883 |
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| Location | 6720 Szeged, Roosevelt tér 1-3. |
| Type | Neoclassical |
| Director | Ottó Fogas |
| Website | http://moramuzeum.hu/ |
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The Móra Ferenc Museum (6720 Szeged, Roosevelt tér 1-3.) is a museum in Szeged, Hungary. The museum stands at the intersection of the bank of the river Tisza and the city's Downtown Bridge. In addition to its seasonal exhibitions, archaeological, ethnographic, historical, and scientific research is conducted at the museum. The museum was founded in 1883, and the neoclassical building was opened in 1896. The institute was renamed in the honor of its former director, Móra Ferenc in 1950.[1]
The work of renowned artists Victor Vasarely and Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka have been displayed in the Móra Ferenc Museum, and in 2012, an exhibition featuring the works of Mihály Munkácsy became the museum's then most successful seasonal exhibition. This record was exceeded in 2014 by an exhibition titled “Pharaohs’ Egypt” which attracted more than 114,000 visitors by year’s end.
The Móra Ferenc Memorial Room pay respects to the museum's former director. Mora Ferenc is remembered as an outstanding figure in Hungarian national literature, and as an archaeologist and researcher. The exhibition room contains many of his personal items, including his furniture, and photo collection.
The museum's exhibition of natural sciences, titled “We Only Have One Earth,” presents us with Earth’s history from its formation, up to the modern era. Visitors can simulate travelling millions of years into the past with the help of installations, several millions of years old fossils, and a 3D animation of a cave bear.
The ethnographic exhibition is titled “The Famous Town of Szeged”. Its featured topics are Tisza-related activities, its best-known craft of making slippers and knives, bullrush weaving, the peculiarities of folk architecture. The folk life of the Szeged-area is illustrated using interactive, audiovisual equipment, in addition to the photo and audio material on various screens.
The Mora Ferenc museum's spectacle of gold collection is also open to the public and presents an approximately 10 kg of unique and highly valuable treasure. In the unconventionally lit room, visitors can view one of the biggest and more significant gold treasures of the Huns, the gold artifacts of Nagyszéksos, which were excavated by Ferenc Mora. The collection also features valuable red gold, memorial coins and particular household objects, such as the golden pen of Istvan Tomorkény (former director of the museum, writer, publicist) or a tie pin bearing Lajos Kossuth's engraved portrait.
