Museum of Bars
TEKOVSKÉ MÚZEUM
Museum of Bars
TEKOVSKÉ MÚZEUM
Original function:
castle / fortification
Address:
ulica Sv. Michala 40.
Historical Hungarian county:
Bars
GPS coordinates:
48.221405, 18.600576
History
The museum is located in the captain's building of the castle of Léva. The museum was established thanks to Nécsey József, the postmaster of Verebély, who donated his collection to the museum in 1927. It included archeological finds, paintings, documents, books and ethnographic objects. Later the museum acquired part of the Africa-collection of Kittenberger Kálmán, who was born in Léva.
Kittenberger Kálmán (1881-1958) was a Hungarian traveler, zoologist, teacher and hunter. He spent 16 years in Africa and discovered 300 new animal species. He survived a malaria infection and a lion attack. He spent 5 years in British captivity in India because of his Hungarian citizenship during World War I. His rich Africa-collection of 60.000 pieces was stored in the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest. Sorrowfully it was nearly completely destroyed in a fire during the fights of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956.
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