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March 28, 2025
Tibor Türk Túri, Hagyományos viseletek babamúzeuma / Doll Museum for Traditional Costumes
pictures are screenprints from the video referred to in the documentation
The Hungarian city of Keszthely with about 20,000 inhabitants is located on the western tip of the large, elongated Lake Balato, located southwest of Budapest.
It is a city that attracts holidaymakers and includes various cultural attractions, such as one of the largest puppet museums in Eastern Europe-
Life and works
This museum was founded by Tibor Türk Túri, who was born in Budapest in May 1954.
He studied at the university in Nyíregyháza and then worked first as a business engineer and later as a teacher and tutor. He loved drawing and painting and was very interested in ethnography.
In the 1980s he entered the field of sculpture, creating a variety of all kinds of sculptures.
His interest in ethnography led him to put together a collection of various dolls in specific costumes, which in turn led to the establishment of the Doll Museum for Traditional Costume.
The museum, which opened in 1999, was housed in a building in Keszthely that used to be a granary and already existed in the middle of the 19th century.
The building contains larch beams with a length of 14 meters, which are even older and possibly date from the time of the Rákóczi, the first war of independence (1703-1711) that was fought in Hungary against the Habsburg rule.
The walls of the building also include unplastered parts of the walls of an old castle in Hungary dating from the time of Roman rule.
The main collection of the museum includes about five hundred dolls showing the traditional costumes worn by the bourgeois inhabitants of Hungary in the past.
There is also a collection of 120 dolls with Transylvanian costumes displayed in two separate showcases.
The heads, hands and feet of the dolls are usually made of ceramic, the rest is made of textile.
The museum management is actively pursuing a policy of adding dolls to the collection.
This applies, for example, to the collection from Transylvania, which was formed by organising a competition via a children's magazine to see who could send in the most beautiful regional costumes.
This action led to a very good result, as very valuable material was received, which was assessed by a jury of ethnographers.
Since in Hungary folk traditions are also gradually disappearing, the museum is just in time to develop activities that will help preserve dolls in traditional clothing by including them in the museum framework.
So, the museum is also undertaking similar actions in collecting dolls, aimed at other areas of Hungary.
The museum does not only contain dolls with traditional costumes that are related to the bourgeoisie.
A contribution was also received from a family that includes all kinds of everyday clothing made of old linen and hemp, about 150 years old.
For example, the clothing of a cleaning woman wearing small wooden slippers and carrying a bucket with a mop. Or a grandmother sitting in front of the stove dressed in simple, poor clothing.
The third floor of the museum includes replicas of various famous buildings in Hungary.
A special creation is a replica of the Hungarian Parliament building, the so-called Snail Parliament, made by Ilona Miskei, born in 1920, who from 1975 onwards incorporated 4.5 million seasnail shells into the building over a period of 14 years.
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