The Hungarian Chemistry Museum

It is our honourable duty to sponsor the museum of our industry! The Hungarian Chemistry Museum, the only museum in Central Europe dedicated to the science of chemistry, was founded in 1969. Its specialised library contains over 17,000 volumes.

The Hungarian Chemistry Museum, founded in Thury Castle in 1969, is the only museum in Central Europe dedicated to the science of chemistry, and houses a national collection in this field of interest. Besides its general industrial history collection of items and documents, its specialised library contains over 17,000 volumes.

 

Thury Castle was selected to be a part of the National Heritage in 1990, and substantial restoration of the building is in progress.

Permanent and temporary exhibitions

Principal exhibitions April - October:

• Chemistry from Antiquity to the Age of Reform
• Chemistry of the Age of Reform
• Development of Hungarian Chemistry between 1919 - 1945
• Portrait gallery of famous Hungarian chemists
• Chemical laboratories of the 1940´s and 1950´s
• Computer technology serving chemistry
• Exhibition of scales.

Special Museum programmes include 'Chemistry Class at the Museum' and the 'Summer Alchemy Camp', held since 2001, in which students aged between 13 - 18 and interested in chemistry are welcomed once a year.