From the Tile Museum, follow the signs through the back streets, past Ottoman houses in various states of decay, and turn right after the geology museum to reach this unlikely and incongruous sight. The stately whitewashed Ottoman building once housed dissident Hungarian parliamentarian Lajos Kossuth (1802–94), and the house exemplifies upper-class Kütahyan life in the mid-19th century. Along with period furnishings, costumes and weaponry, there are two floors of verandas overlooking a rose garden and statue of Kossuth.
After demanding independence from the Austrian-dominated Hapsburg Empire, Kossuth and others were expelled; he spent a year here (1850–51) before continuing his exile in the UK, USA and Italy.
