This museum, purpose-built in 1895, contains objects left behind by some of the various peoples who passed through the Danube Basin ahead of the Magyars. Don’t miss the fine Celtic and Avar jewellery and the large folk collection of Serbian, Swabian and Sárköz artefacts. Three period rooms – that of a well-to-do Sárköz farming family and their coveted spotted-poplar furniture, another from the estate of the aristocratic Apponyi family of Lengyel, and a poor gooseherd’s hut – illustrate very clearly the different economic brackets that existed side by side in the region a century ago. Also interesting are the exhibits related to the silk factory that was started in Szekszárd in the 19th century with Italian help and employed so many of the region’s young women.
