Göcsej Village Museum (Zalaegerszeg)

 museum, open air museum

On the north-western confines of Zalaegerszeg, on the bank of the backwater of the river Zala, Hungary's first open air ethnographic museum, the Göcsej Village Museum, lies in an environment of grassland and groves. It was opened for the public in August 1968.

The principle underlying the settlement and construction of the Göcsej Village Museum in Zalaegerszeg was to show, through the most beautiful examples of the archaic types of buildings still available, the line of development which was at the end of the l9th century already on the decline. In this regional open air museum a small village consisting of nearly 50 original buildings has been set up arranged on crofts. The buildings demonstrate folk architecture, techniques and modes of construction, characteristic of Göcsej (Zala County) and its vicinity. The furniture of the houses is to present the interior decoration of peasant houses in the area at the end of the l9th century.

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