Inami Country House

The Palóc Hungarian Country House and Cultural Center opened in the village of Nagykürtös district, which has a population of barely 500 people. Its establishment is the result of an unusual collaboration: János Sárközi – as a private individual – purchased the Palóc farmhouse built in 1925 in 2006, which he offered to the Hungarian community in the Uplands for cultural service. The professional supervision was undertaken by the Kuni Domokos County Museum in Tata, under the direction of ethnographer Árpád Csapucha and historian Csaba Fehér, and most of the furnishings were donated to the country house by the locals. The entire process was organized and coordinated by the Christian Hungarian Federation. ; “It cannot be emphasized enough how much the national culture, traditions in general, and within that, folk culture, have the power to shape and sustain a community,” pointed out Csaba Fehér, one of the founders of the association. “The opening of a country house or village museum is a tribute to the past and the memory of the ancestors who lived there, a strong foundation suitable for further construction for the Hungarians of our time and the future. Unfortunately, we experience that we ourselves respect the memories of our past less and less, and when clearing out the trash, instead of visiting a museum or country house and donating old, unused objects inherited from their ancestors to its collection, they throw them into the fire. They do not realize that by doing so, they are destroying the roots and values of their family and our common past, weakening the foundations on which a secure future could be built. Therefore, the plans of our association include the network-like construction of the country houses in the Highlands and the connection of the existing ones.”