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Calvinist Church
Walking northeast into Szabadság tér, you'll pass the 17th-century Calvinist Church and the Calvinist New College (Református újkollégium) from 1912, a later version of the Hungarian Romantic style that looks like a Transylvanian castle and is now a music school.
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Calvinist New College
Walking northeast into Szabadság tér, you'll pass the 17th-century Calvinist Church and the Calvinist New College from 1912, a later version of the Hungarian Romantic style that looks like a Transylvanian castle and is now a music school.
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Franciscan Church of St Nicholas
On the eastern side of Kossuth tér is the Franciscan Church of St Nicholas, dating in part from the late 13th century.
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Great Church
Kecskemét's main square is dominated by the Catholic Great Church built in 1806. The big tablets on the front honour (from left to right) a mounted regiment of Hussars that served in WWI; citizens who died in the 1848-49 War of Independence; and the Kecskemét victims of WWII. From June to August its tower can be climbed for views of the city's sun-bleached rooftops.
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House of Technology
One of the buildings in the square is among the city's finest. The House of Technology, a Moorish structure dating from 1871, was once a synagogue and is now used for temporary exhibitions.
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Hungarian Folk Craft Museum
The Hungarian Folk Craft Museum, the granddaddy of all museums in Kecskemét, is further southwest and a block in from Dózsa György út. Some 10 rooms of an old farm complex are crammed with embroidery, woodcarving, furniture, agricultural tools and textiles, so don't try to see everything at once.
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Hungarian Museum of Naive Artists
Arguably the city's most interesting museum and one of the few of its kind in Europe, the Hungarian Museum of Naive Artists is in the Stork House (1730), surrounded by a high white wall, just off Petőfi Sándor utca. Lots of predictable themes here, but the warmth and craft of Rozália Albert Juhászné's work, the drug-like visions of Dezső Mokry-Mészáros and the paintings of András Süli (Hungary's answer to Henri Rousseau) will hold your attention.
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Kecskemét Gallery
One of the buildings in the square is among the city's finest. The Art Nouveau Ornamental Palace (Cifrapalota), which dates from 1902 and is covered in multicoloured majolica tiles, now contains the Kecskemét Gallery. Don't go in so much for the art; climb the steps to the aptly named Decorative Hall (Díszterem) to see the amazing stucco peacock, bizarre windows and more tiles.
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Leskowsky Musical Instrument Collection
The Leskowsky Musical Instrument Collection traces the development of music-making over the centuries and has a decent collection of instruments from five continents.
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Otthon Cinema
A beautiful example of this mixture of mixture of Art Nouveau/Secessionist and folkloric elements is the restored Otthon Cinema, on the corner of pedestrian Görögtemplom utca.
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Tower
From June to August the Great Church's Tower can be climbed for views of the city's sun-bleached rooftops.
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Toy Museum & Workshop
The Toy Museum & Workshop has a small collection of 19th- and early-20th-century dolls, wooden trains, board games and so on, dumped haphazardly in glass cases. But the museum spends most of its time and money on organising events and classes for kids. Much is made of Ernő Rubik, the Hungarian inventor of that infuriating Rubik's Cube from the 1970s.
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Zoltán Kodály Institute of Music Education
The Zoltán Kodály Institute of Music Education occupies the baroque monastery behind Kossuth tér to the east. Inside, one of the corridors has been devoted to the institute's composer-namesake.
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