Museum sights in Pécs
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Endre Nemes Museum
Káptalan utca, running east from Dóm tér to Hunyadi János út, contains a plethora of museums, all of them in listed buildings. The entry fee to the Ferenc Martyn Museum includes entry to the Endre Nemes Museum, which is devoted to paintings by the surrealist Endre Nemes (1908-85). In a separate pavilion behind it is Erzsébet Schaár's Utca (also included in the Martyn Museum ticket), a complete artistic environment in which the sculptor set her whole life in stone.
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Janus Pannonius Archaeology Museum
The Janus Pannonius Archaeology Museum, in the 17th-century home of a janissary commander just behind the Mosque Church in Széchenyi tér, traces the history of Baranya County up to the time of Árpád. It also contains many examples of Roman stonework from Pannonia, a model of St Bertalan's Church and medieval porcelain.
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Pasha Hassan Jakovali Mosque
Southwest of Pécs' inner town and opposite the Pátria hotel is the Pasha Hassan Jakovali Mosque, wedged between a trade school and a hospital. The 16th-century mosque - complete with minaret - is the most intact of any Turkish structure in Hungary and contains a small museum of Ottoman objets d'art.
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Ferenc Martyn Museum
Káptalan utca, running east from Dóm tér to Hunyadi János út, contains a plethora of museums, all of them in listed buildings. The Ferenc Martyn Museum displays works by the Pécs-born painter and sculptor (1899-1986) and sponsors special exhibits of local interest.
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Ethnography Museum
The Ethnography Museum to the southeast of the Pasha Hassan Jakovali Mosque (southwest of Pécs' inner town), showcases ethnic Hungarian, German and South Slav folk art in the region.
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Marcipán Museum
Just past the Pécs National Theatre on Király utca, you'll run into the Marcipán Museum, where you can make your own delectable delight or buy one from the museum shop.
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City History Museum
You'll find the excellent City History Museum if you turn south after passing the Church of St Stephen (Szent István-templom; Király utca 44/a) on Király utca.
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Vasarely Museum
The Vasarely Museum contains the zany works of Victor Vasarely, the father of Op Art.
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