Attila József Memorial House

The new Attila József exhibition is housed in the former Horváth Pension on the Balatonszárszó villa row, which was renovated in 2012 with European Union funding. This is the house where the poet, who was recovering from a serious illness, spent his last days. On the evening of 3 December 1937, he set out from here on the walk from which he never returned. At 7.35 p.m. he was run over by a freight train leaving from Balatonszárszó station. The exhibition recalls the last period of the poet's life and, looking back from it, commemorates his entire life's work with the help of the Petőfi Literary Museum and privately owned documents, photographs and objects.

The material, rhythmically arranged in a spectacular, new interior structure, creates a rhythmical and active reception, transforming the imposingly spacious memorial space into an intellectual cosmos. The columns, alcoves and resting islands in the space present in detail the poet's material legacy, his lyrical universe, an unprecedentedly multifaceted poetry, whose most important inspiration, alongside reflection, was memory.

The exhibition is unique in its kind, presenting factual information, sensational documents (such as Attila József's half-retained Rorschach test) and unpublished photographs, all of which are at the same time emotionally appealing.

It's about love, suffering, death, yet it can appeal to people of all ages. For those arriving with families, it offers playful-creative joint inclusion, with the help of which children can understand many things about the life problems and poetry of the poet who suffered a tragic fate.