The Ottó Herman Museum is the largest museum in

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, Hungary. It holds more than 600,000 artifacts. Its main focus is on

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, arts, history, and

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History

The museum was founded in 1899 under the name Borsod-Miskolcz Museum (Borsod is the historical

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whose capital is Miskolc, and Miskolcz is an archaic spelling of the name of the city.) It became state property in 1949. The museum took the name of the famous

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Ottó Herman Ottó Herman (26 June 1835 – 27 December 1914) was a Hungarian zoologist, ethnographer, archaeologist, and politician; a polymath recognized as a pioneer of Hungarian natural history research. He made numerous studies on Hungarian spiders, bir ...

in 1953. Since 1963, it collects artifacts not only from Miskolc and Borsod, but from the whole unified Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county.

Exhibition sites belonging to the Ottó Herman Museum

The museum has several buildings both in Miskolc and in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county. The one near Erzsébet square in Miskolc is the oldest. It hosts the mineral collection. The main building on Görgey street was built in 1952; it holds the arts museum, library, and storerooms. The Pannonian Sea Museum is one of the new parts of the museum, which opened in 2013. Other exhibition sites are the Abaúj Museum at

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, the Bodrogköz Castle Museum of Pácin, the Ferenc Kazinczy Museum of

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, the Ferenc Kazinczy Memorial Hall in Széphalom, the Gallery of

Sárospatak Sárospatak (german: Potok am Bodroch; la, Potamopolis; sk, Šarišský Potok or ; ) is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, northern Hungary. It lies northeast from Miskolc, in the Bodrog river valley. The town, often called simply ''Pat ...

, the Gömör Museum of

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, the László Holló Gallery of Putnok, the

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Museum of

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, the Agricultural Machines Museum of Mezőkövesd, the Museum of Tokaj in

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, and the Zemplén Museum of

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External links

Official website

Pannon Sea Museum official website

Pannon Sea Museum on the official Miskolc website

Museums in Miskolc on the official Miskolc website
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