István Szilágy was born in Nagykálló, near the house marked with the memorial plaque. He was an educator, college director-teacher and a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He wrote works on church history, local history and pedagogy. He was close friends with János Arany and Sándor Petőfi.
The building currently houses an ethnographic and local history collection.
When the museum was opened in 2005, only the first room of the building was furnished, presenting the history and choreography of the Kállai Double Ballad, a tradition that still lives on in the city. Over the next nine years, each room was filled with thematically arranged objects.
The second and largest room is the local history room. Here you can see a model of the former castle of Kálló, as well as relics of the 1848-49 War of Independence.
The third contains relics of the pre-electrification period and a slice of industrial history: a shoemaker's workshop, a tailor's workshop, straw weaving patterns, local embroidery. Finally, the corridor displays hand tools of agriculture.
The local history collection contains 4,000 objects, mainly ethnographic, that give visitors an insight into the city's past. In 2008, the collection received the "Museum of the Year" award.
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