Museum sights in Sopron
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Fabricius House
Across the square in which the Firewatch Tower stands is Fabricius House, containing exhibits of the Sopron Museum. Of particular interest are the urban flats (polgári lakások) on the upper floors, with rooms devoted to domestic life in Sopron in the 17th and 18th centuries. There are a few kitchen mock-ups and exhibits explaining how people made their beds and washed their dishes in those days, but the highlights are the rooms facing the square that are crammed with priceless antique furniture.
The lower floors have an archaeological exhibition covering Celtic, Roman and Hungarian periods of history. Scarbantia-era statues reconstructed from fragments found in the are…
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Storno House
Across the square in which the Firewatch Tower stands is Storno House containing exhibits of the Sopron Museum. On the 1st floor of this building, built in 1417, there's a less-than-enthralling exhibit on Sopron's more recent history, but on the floor above is the wonderful Storno Collection (Storno Gyűjtemény), which belonged to a 19th-century Swiss-Italian family of restorers whose recarving of Romanesque and Gothic monuments throughout Transdanubia is frowned upon today.
To their credit, the much maligned Stornos did rescue many altarpieces and church furnishings from oblivion, and their house is a Gothic treasure-trove. Highlights include the beautiful enclosed balc…
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Bakery Museum
From the House of the Two Moors, walking west along Fövényverem utca, you'll soon reach Bécsi út and the Bakery Museum, a fantastic reminder of a bygone era. It's actually the completely restored home, bakery and shop of a successful 19th-century bread and pastry maker named Weissbeck, and contains some interesting gadgets and work-saving devices.
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Pharmacy Museum
The Pharmacy Museum is in a Gothic building beside the Goat Church and contains the usual scary things in cobwebby bottles and vile vials.
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