Göcseji Múzeum

In Zalaegerszeg the idea of ​​museum formation was first raised in a newspaper article by György Borbély grammar school teacher in 1898. In 1907, under the leadership of Borbély, the teachers of the grammar school began collecting antiques and ethnographic memories. Most of the objects were scattered during World War I and the smaller part was taken to Keszthely.

In 1935 József Fára became a museum archivist for another museum organization, but the Göcsei Collection, which was created after his work, was not able to be organized into museums, and only a fraction of them lost the II. World War.

The Göcsei Museum was established in 1950, its first professional, until 1969 the head of Imre Szentmihályi was an ethnographer. At the former City Hall (Kazinczy Square 1.), only two rooms of 50 square meters were received first and the Göcseji Collection could have retained some of the remaining objects.

In the first decade, he first created the ethnographic collection of the archaic folk farming, housing culture and folk art of Göcsej. Particularly outstanding was the collection of tools for old farming, the objects of pastry carvings, especially the decorated carnivores. Thousands of photographs made by Szentmihályi are of utmost importance for later research, most of which are part of the then traditional Göse village, the memories of folk architecture that have been destroyed since then. In the autumn of 1953, the first permanent exhibition of Göcsej's folk culture was opened. In 1960, the Göcsei Museum's jubilee memorial was published, with many important studies on the county's history.

In 1962, the institution went to the County Council. For a short time, an archaeologist worked here (Ilona Valter 1962-63, Róbert Müller in 1967-69), but due to the lack of proper working conditions, they both left for other workplaces.

In 1963 the construction of the Göcse Village Museum started. The scientific design of the outdoor exhibition of Göcsej's folk architecture was made by Jenő Barabás, associate professor, Imre Szentmihályi, ethnographer and János Tóth architect. The staff of the museum was extremely small, so the organization of the museum was very small, so a widespread working group helped with the management of the County Council. The first open-air ethnographic museum in Hungary opened on August 20, 1968. In the next decade, it has been associated with this three-star peasant gate, preserved and furnished as museums in the past century: Kávás, Csesztregen, Zalalövő.

In 1969, the museum received the very poorly maintained headquarters of the city council (Batthyány u. 2), which was built in 1892 for a tenement house. (The building was shared by the offices of the ZTE Sport Association until 1975, and by 1993 with the Hungarian Oil Industry Museum.) The reconstruction was completed in 1973 and its new periodical exhibitions opened, and on September 23, Ferenc Gönczi, Göcsej most significant researcher.

Meanwhile, in 1972, the Zala County Museum Organization was established, and the Museum of Göcse became a county museum. In 1976, Kisfaludi Strobl Zsigmond sculptor's estate was built in Kisfaludi Strobl Collection, which moved to its present place in 1990. In 1979, the permanent exhibition of the history of Zala county was opened (it was dismantled in 1997).

From 1972 the number of staff members was gradually increasing: archeologist (s), art historian, historian (s), collecting managers, opportunity to develop gradually modern restoration workshops.

Archaeological activity was first strengthened: works were carried out with the National Monumental Inspectorate, the Department of Archeology of ELTE, the Archeology Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1978, the preparation of the archaeological research of Kis-Balaton started, and this became one of the largest planned explorations in the 1980s. A similar survey of the Hahoots basin continued. From 1980 onwards, they became more regular and more fruitful with international institutions, mainly Austria, Germany, Yugoslavia (later Slovenia). Since 1974, the expanded, more experienced staffing team - besides the national and other county publications - is primarily involved in a joint periodical of the county public collections, the Zalai Collection, after his own periodical in Zala Múzeum.

After 1992 there was a new renovation of the building of the museum, and in the attic was completed modern workplaces in 1997, and modern warehouses were created in the liberated parts of the building.

Since 1996, the Göcsei Museum has been actively involved in the celebrations of the anniversaries of each other (the Millennium of the Conquest, the 150th anniversary of the Revolution and War of Independence 1848-49, the Millennium of the Founding of the State, the Kossuth Year, and in 2003 the Deák Year) . Our exhibitions and events provided a worthy level of space for Zalaegerszeg and the county's citizens for the celebration.

In 2000 he remembered the 50th anniversary of the museum's existence. On this occasion, in our exhibition titled "Treasures of the old times", we gave a mention of the activities of half a century's museum activities. This year, "Centers along the Zala" opened; our new permanent exhibition.

 In 2003, the Göcsei Museum brought two new exhibitions in the Deák Year. At our barn in the home of Waka's home and Kehida, our old home opened our permanent exhibitions.

From 1999 the archaeologists of the Göcse Museum joined the archaeological explorations of the M7 motorway and motorway M70. This work, which runs until 2007, is the largest business of Zala Archeology.

In recognition of our work, in 1996 we received a special prize at the Museum of the Museum of the Ministry of Culture and Public Education, "Museum of the Year", and in 2000 we won the special prize of the National Museum. In 2001, the General Assembly of the Zala County Prize was awarded, while the General Assembly of the Zalaegerszeg County Council awarded the Pro Urbe Award to the institution. In 2003 the Museum of Göcsej became the Museum of the Year.

 

The museum directors:

1950 - 1969: Dr. Imre Szentmihályi

1970 - 1972: Dr. András Reményi K.

1972 - 1992: Dr. Németh József

1992 - 2011: Dr. László Vándor

2011 - Imre Kaján