CHRISTMAS AT THE CASTLE

Great success attend the series of Advent and Christmas events organised at the castle every years since 2003 with the intention of starting a tradition. The connecting temporary exhibitions are always staged in the ballroom, while the Christmas trees decorated with ornaments made by contemporary applied artists put up in the rooms housing the permanent exhibition. During the weekends in Advent, concerts, a Nativity play, performances of early music, an applied arts fair, and a wine and honey fair are staged for the benefit of visitors.

FEAST OF THE CENTAUR

This feast is dedicated to the bronz statue of the Centaur standing in the garden. Every autumn the park changes into the garden of ancient times with family fun activities.
Visitors can discover the garden of mytology and meet the Centaur and his pupil, Hercules. We can find in the park the blacksmith master, the basket maker, wood carver and create our own articles. Children can enjoy the theatre performances and concert of antique music, they can try to play board games from ancient Rome. During the whole weekend a craftman fair of ancient trades, wine and honey fair, food and drink specialities of roman times stage for the benefit of visitors. You can buy all sorts of home-made honey, aroma oils, herbs and spices, and enjoy our fragrant garve of lemon orange and bay trees.

EXHIBITION OF FANS

"Charming Trifles", an exhibition presenting important works from the collection of fans at the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest, opened in June 2002. Seventy fans and other accessories were displayed in the great hall (the ballroom), evoking the atmosphere of the balls of old. A related event was "The Language of the Fan" show, in which visitors, too, could take part. This was staged in the ceremonial courtyard of the castle.

HIDDEN DRAWERS AND COMPARTMENTS

Some items in the Furniture Exhibition have really spectacular interiors. Only two times a year- during one weekend in May and September - visitors are able to see inside such magnificent pieces as - for example - Transylvanian tables from the 15th century, Spanish renaissance varguenos - writing-cabinets, flamish late renaissance cabinets, rococo writing-desks, and so on. With guided tours in hungarian.

MUSICAL DEVICES DOWN THE CENTURIES

The Korenchy collection consists mostly of mechanical musical devices from the period 1780-1930. The selection displayed here contains one-off masterpieces as well as mass-produced items from later times. It includes some rare artefacts like mechanical birds, pocket watches, ornamental boxes, and large mechanical devices from the 19th century like the polyphone, the orchestrion and the pianola. These provided music in the bigger coffee houses. A big step in the development of sound recording was the phonograph and Emil Berliner's gramophone in 1887.
Visitors were invited to listen on CD to the sounds made by the artefacts on display.