Göcsej Village Museum Traditional Geocache
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On the north-western confines of Zalaegerszeg, on the bank of the
backwater of the river Zala, Hungary's first open air ethnographic
museum, the Göcsej Village Museum, lies in an environment of
grassland and groves. It was opened for the public in August 1968.
In Hungary there are three open air ethnographic museums as well as historic examples of folk architecture, ensembles of such buildings, and regional houses preserved "in situ" in several places, to get their visitors acquainted with the vernacular architecture and interior decoration of the south-western borderland of the country. The regional unit representing Western Transdanubia is under construction in the Szentendre Village Museum. Its buildings will present the peasant houses of the Orség (Vas County), Göcsej and Hetés (Zala County) complete with interior decoration. The farmhouses and outbuildings re-erected in the Vas Village Museum in Szombathely represent the archaic types of buildings of the County and their more developed versions. The principle underlying the settlement and construction of the Göcsej Village Museum in Zalaegerszeg was to show, through the most beautiful examples of the archaic types of buildings still available, the line of development which was at the end of the l9th century already on the decline. In this regional open air museum a small village consisting of nearly 50 original buildings has been set up arranged on crofts. The buildings demonstrate folk architecture, techniques and modes of construction, characteristic of Göcsej (Zala County) and its vicinity. The furniture of the houses is to present the interior decoration of peasant houses in the area at the end of the l9th century.
The cache was placed apart from the museum's area.
The museum's opening hours:
May 1. - August 31.
Tuesday-Sunday: 10-18
Monday: closed
April 1. - April 30., September 1. - Octoberber 31.
Tuesday-Sunday: 10-16
Monday: closed
November 1. - March 31.
Onto a visit there is an opportunity with a walker ticket: 10, 11, 13, 14 hours
Sunday, Monday: closed
Ticket:
Adult: 600,- Ft
Student, pensioner: 300,- Ft
Group (at least 8 heads): 400,- Ft
Family (2 adult, min. 2 kinds): 1200,- Ft
Walker ticket in the winter period: 50% from the foresaid ticket prices
Art exhibition leadership English, German, Russian: 4.000,- Ft
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