The small Esterházy house in the English Garden — the oldest building in the park, put up by József Grossmann in 1784 in the Zopf manner; it was made for seclusion, with nothing of display about it. On the ground floor the original decorative painting has been brought back — a reception room with a landscape over the walls, and linear painting in the other rooms. Upstairs an exhibition, The Garden, has opened, in which the English Garden is shown from four sides: as a stage and as a landscape, as a people’s park and as a collection.
The original decorative painting of the ground floor: the reception room with a landscape over its walls and the linear painting of the other rooms — the thing for which the house was restored at all. The exhibition The Garden (A kert, 2026) on the upper floor — the garden as a stage, as a landscape, as a people’s park and as a collection; curated by Máté Stegmayer, Mónika Kövesdi, Zsófia Szegleti and József Szűcs. The ground-floor rooms: the reception room, the ladies’ salon, the master’s study. The building itself, of 1784, by József Grossmann.
Minimum route — 45 minutes to an hour for the essentials
Three quarters of an hour.
20 minutesthe ground floor: the reception room painted with a landscape, the ladies’ salon, the master’s study.
20 minutesthe Garden exhibition upstairs.
5 minutesthe house from outside and the view over the Cseke lake.
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About the museum
The house was put up in 1783–1785, when the Esterházys were shaping Tata into an estate centre. It was restored in 2014, and since December 2025 has been in the care of the Kuny Domokos Museum; it reopened on 25 April 2026. Next door, in the former summer kitchen of 1803, the Cellarius has stood since 2017 — a shop of local craftsmen and winegrowers.
Getting in
Addresschecked on 19 August 2026, the museum website
Angolkert, Patak köz
How to get there
The house stands in the English Garden by the Cseke lake, in the north-eastern part of town; twenty-five minutes on foot from the castle.
Opening times
Admission is only with a guide, four times a day: at 10:30, 12:30, 14:30 and 16:30. Tickets are bought at the Cellarius house next door.
Ticketschecked on 19 August 2026, the museum website
Adults 1,500 Ft, reduced 1,000 Ft, with the Tata card 800 Ft, groups of ten or more 1,000 Ft, family 3,500 Ft. While the exhibition is being installed the ticket costs 500 Ft.
from HUF 1,500
by prior booking only
When to go
There are only four entries a day, and whoever misses one waits two hours. The garden round about is at its best in May and October.
The house is small, the round goes with a guide in Hungarian, and a child is bored in it. The garden with its artificial ruins around it is another matter.
Fifty-six artists and about a hundred works on what is left of the baroque in the art of today. The show belongs to the Tata Baroque Festival and occupies the summer house in the English Garden.
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The exhibition upstairs is about the garden the house stands in; beyond the door the garden itself begins, with its ruins, its Turkish Mosque and its lake.
