Tokaj Museum - Tokaj

The Museum gives place to the grape and wine ethnographical exhibition. On the first floor we can find Beres Bela's collection of ecclesiastic history. On the ground floor there is room for temporary exhibitions, which were shops. There is a cellar under the building. There are Wine exhibitions in the second wing and stone regional historical objects in its yard.
The beautiful building stands on the main square of Tokaj, which was a Greek commerce house and was bulit in 1790 by the Christmas family.
Perhaps the most valuable exhibition is Beres Bela's collection of church religious art among the permanent exhibitions. Beres Bela, dean-parson of Tokaj, offered his collection to the museum in 1981.
The exhibition introducing the past of the wine-growing and winemaking of Foothills and its wine commercial development on the loft. The real sight of the loft is the chimneys. The visitor can see the exhibited objects (collection of different types of grapes, agricultural tools, labels, souvenirs of vintages, padlocks of cellars etc.) and documents (given privilige-, and protection letters). The bigger objects; the cart which transported wines, the production of cooperage; got place between the chimneys. Here people can get to know everything which is in connection with wine-growing, the process of winemaking till the storing in cellars.
There is a cellar system under the building according to the traditions of Foothills. The cellar is a separate world. It has romance and spirit. Mikszath was right when he said: "The world under the ground is to have the overground forgotten." These cellars are more hundred years old and this is the reason why it has special atmosphere. The bottles, used for storing, indicates the special way of 'the wine of king's' storage.
In the branches we can see the casks and the bottled wines of the most famous winemaker companies can be found in one of the branches. The Tokaji Oremus, Tokaji Hetszolo, Chateau Pajzos and Megyer, Count Degenfeld Winery, Sajgo Winery, Royal Tokaj Wine Co., Tokaj Commercial House, Tokaj Disznoko introduce their products here.