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House of the Captains-in-Chief, Museum of Technology

Slovenské technické múzeum
House of the Captains-in-Chief, Museum of Technology
Slovenské technické múzeum
Original function:
military headquarters / administration
barracks
Current function:
museum
Settlement:
Kassa, Košice 
Address:
Hlavná 88
Historical Hungarian county:
Abaúj-Torna
Country:
Slovakia
GPS coordinates:
48.724159, 21.255947
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History

The building was gradually created from four separate Gothic burgher's houses. It gained its final Baroque form in the 18th century. It was the seat of the Captain-in-Chief of Upper-Hungary. It was turned into a barracks in 1870.

After Kassa returned to Hungary, a museum of technology was established in the building in 1943. The rich collection came from the Museum of Technology in Budapest. With the Soviet invasion the Czechoslovak administration returned to the Hungarian town. The museum was reopened in 1947 as Slovak Technical Museum. The Slovaks keep quiet about the fact on the museum's homepage, that it was also established by the Hungarians, they just state that it was established in 1947.

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