Tata museums · Architecture and estates
Architecture and estates · since 1861
The former synagogue, exhibition hall
original name: Volt Zsinagóga Kiállítóhely
A synagogue rebuilt in 1861 in the romantic manner to the design of Ignác Wechselmann. There is no standing display in the house at all. What remains is the building itself and the memory of a community the town no longer has; in the garden stands a monument to the victims of the Holocaust by Mária Lugossy, unveiled on 18 November 2004.
Minimum route
20–30 minutes
Founded
1861
Ticket
free entry
Today
closed today
What to see
The building itself — the rebuilding of 1861 to the design of Ignác Wechselmann (1828–1903). In the garden, the memorial place of Komárom-Esztergom county and the sculptural group by Mária Lugossy, In Memory of the Martyrs of All Times, of 2004. There is no standing display; the hall is given to temporary ones.
Minimum route — 20–30 minutes for the essentials
Half an hour.
- 15 minutesthe hall itself and the gallery.
- 10 minutesthe Holocaust memorial in the garden.
- 5 minutesthe temporary exhibition, if one is on.
Reference
About the museum
A Jewish community lived in Tata from the Middle Ages; after the war the building is what remained of it. From 1977 until the late 2010s it held plaster casts of ancient sculpture; now it is given over to temporary exhibitions and has no display of its own.
The building
The house took its present shape in the rebuilding of 1861 by Ignác Wechselmann, who worked in the romantic manner. The hall is high, with a gallery, and looks no worse empty than with an exhibition in it.
Getting in
How to get there
Hősök tere in the old part of town, between the Esterházy palace and the Öreg-tó.
Opening timeschecked on 19 August 2026, the museum website
closed today
| Mon–Wed, Sun today | closed |
| Thu–Sat | 09:00–17:00 |
Open Thursday to Saturday; closed Sunday to Wednesday.
Ticketschecked on 19 August 2026, the museum website
Admission free.
When to go
It opens three days a week, which is worth checking before setting out: the palace next door opens six.
Contacts
Of interest to children
An empty hall and a memorial to the murdered are not what one comes to with a child.
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