Would you like to travel back in time? Are you curious about how villagers lived and what they did 100 years ago? When you think about it, it wasn’t that long ago—perhaps your grandparents were children back then. However, the world has changed significantly, and today we can hardly imagine it without electricity, bathrooms, or computers. Yet the people living here didn’t have any of that a hundred years ago. During our tour, you can use your imagination to return to the past and, through exhibitions, open-air museums, and various activities, gain insight into rural life of that era.
The City Museum of Homeland History in Šamorín offers its visitors an exhibition of medieval charters and documents revealing the history of the town of Šamorín. It also captivates with a display of tools and items used in farming households, as well as in hemp processing and fishing.
At the countryside house, you can see horse-drawn and oxen-drawn tools from the years 1870 to 1930, which were commonly used by those who made their living through agriculture, as well as the hand tools needed for farming and animal husbandry. In the yard, there are both native and non-native animals (chickens, geese, Hungarian wild ducks, domestic turkeys, quails, goats, sheep, and the Puli dog breed that protects them). You can also view a typical thatched roof made of reeds.
Originally a Baroque mansion, it was neoclassically modified at the beginning of the 19th century. This two-story building is considered one of the most significant historical monuments in Dunajská Streda. Commissioned by Bishop Márton Biró Padányi of Veszprém, a spacious two-story manor was built for his brother, István Biró, in the neighborhood of Dunajská Streda called Pókatelek, completed by 1753. It later became known as the Yellow Mansion, which was accompanied by a large estate. Over time, the building became the property of the Kondé family from Pókatelek, who remodeled the mansion according to their tastes in the early 19th century. Today, the mansion houses the Žitný ostrov Museum. The permanent exhibition, which provides museum visitors with an authentic picture of the lives of the region's inhabitants, consists of 17 thematic units. Archaeological and paleontological finds are displayed on the ground floor.
One of the last preserved water mills, from the original more than one hundred operating in the region, is located in a beautiful setting on the banks of the Klátovské arm. This three-story, snow-white building with a large wheel (over 6 meters in diameter) attracts attention from afar. It is a typical example of a undershot mill, which were relatively rare in the Žitný Island area. It took on its current form during renovations in 1920. The last milling in the mill occurred in the 1940s. Currently, the mill building houses a permanent exhibition on water milling.
