Bács-Kiskun County

Bács -Kiskun [ba ː ʧ kiʃkun ] is a county (administrative district ) in southern Hungary. It shares borders with Serbia and to the counties of Baranya, Tolna, Fejér, plague, Jasz -Nagykun -Szolnok and Csongrád. It has an area of ​​8445 km ² and (2001) 541 430 inhabitants. The county seat is Kecskemét, other major cities are Kiskunfélegyháza, Kiskunhalas, Kalocsa and Baja.

• 2.1 Museums

Geography

The area has a share in the Great Hungarian Plain. In the west the county is bordered by the Danube and the Tisza reaches the east.

Administrative subdivision in small areas

• Small area Bácsalmás
• Small area Baja
• Small area Jánoshalma
• Small area Kalocsa
• Small area Kecskemét
• Small area Kiskőrös
• Small area Kiskunfélegyháza
• Small area Kiskunhalas
• Small area Kiskunmajsa
• Small area Kunszentmiklós

Major cities and towns

History and Culture

The name Kiskun ( " Kiskunság " ) dates back to the Turkic Cumans, who were settled in 1240 by the Mongols storms here. The southern part of the county has a share in the landscape Backa, located mostly in Vojvodina.

The county was formed (former Bács- Bodrog ) and the southern part of the large Pest- Pilis - Solt -Kiskun only in the course of the great Komitatsreform 1950 from the Hungarian part of Backa.

Museums

The State Directorate of Museums of Bács -Kiskun is a carrier of 12 Komitatsmuseen. County seat is the city of Kecskemét.

• Apostag, Lajos Nagy Memorial Museum *
• Baja, István Türr Museum *
• Baja, Ferenc Deák sluice Museum *
• Baja, museum of Hungary Croats *
• Bugac Hirtenmuseum
• Csávoly, Village Museum ( Falumúzeum )
• Izsák, pálinka Museum
• Kalocsa, Paprika Museum
• Kalocsa, Károly Viski Museum *
• Kecel, Military Museum
• Kecskemét, Municipal Gallery

• Kecskemét, Museum of Naïve Art
• Kecskemét, Museum of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy
• Kecskemét, József Katona Memorial House
• Kecskemét, Ráday Museum *
• Kecskemét, School History Museum
• Kecskemét, Toy Museum
• Kecskemét, Hungarian Museum of Photography
• Kecskemét, Bozsó Collection
• Kecskemét, mineral collection
• Kecskemét, musical instrument collection
• Kecskemét, Folk Arts Collection

• Kiskőrös, Sándor Petőfi - Museum
• Kiskunfélegyháza Kiskun Museum *
• Kiskunhalas, János Thorma Museum
• Kiskunmajsa, local history museum
• Kiskunmajsa, '56 -er- Museum *
• Kunszentmiklós, Virágh Kuria Museum *
• Nemesnádudvar, Village Museum ( Falumúzeum )
• Nemesnádudvar, Wine Museum
• Szalkszentmárton, Sándor Petőfi Gedenkuseum *
• Szórakaténusz, Toy Museum

* Komitatsmuseum