'Mysterious' Ice Age Exhibition in Szeged is Proving Popular
- 26 Aug 2025 12:29 PM
The 50,000th visitor was welcomed to this special Ice Age exhibition in Szeged on Monday. Retired teacher Mária Hoffman arrived at the exhibition with her grandchildren who live in Budapest.
Museum director Ottó Fogas said the exhibition is one of the most successful exhibitions in the public collection to date. The exhibition presenting Ice Age man opened on May 9, while the exhibition entitled The 'Mysterious Ice Age' exhibition has been open since the 'Night of Museums' in June.
In recent years, the museum has been striving to put together exhibitions that deal with a single theme, consisting of several units, but that can be interpreted on their own. According to the plans, the Ice Age exhibition, which can be visited until the end of the year, will welcome visitors in more than a thousand square meters in seven rooms of the Palace of Culture.
In addition to the unit displaying Ice Age man and the fauna of the period with spectacular animal and skeletal reconstructions, the exhibition will also have a separate section comparing the climate of the past and the present - the museologist said.
The exhibition was preceded by several years of preparation, and there was a time when 30-40 people worked on putting together the exhibition.
In organizing this Ice Age exhibition, some of the exhibition material was borrowed from domestic and foreign museums, and the animal reconstructions arriving in Szeged from China.
The largest group of guests are those from Csongrád-Csanád County, who combine their visit to the museum with some other program in Szeged, followed by Szeged residents. Most of the visitors are families with small children - many return several times.
The moving, sound-making mammoth in front of the museum building and the animal reconstructions in the exhibition space are popular. The weekend gift tours continue to be a great success, the director noted.
The largest group of visitors from further afield is from Budapest, numbering tens of thousands annually.
According to questionnaires, the vast majority of them come to Szeged specifically for the museum's exhibitions, visit other tourist attractions and often stay in the city for several days, said Ottó Fogas.
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