Lamp Museum

Europe’s first lamp museum was opened from the extraordinarily rich private collection of Ferenc Borus in 1971.

Almost anything can be found in the museum, from the oil lamp of the Romans, through the candlesticks of former princes, to the railway lamp still in use today.

Ferenc Borus furnished a wine museum in his own cellar from a collection of bottled drinks in the 1960s. He was looking for suitable lighting appliances and came into contact with lamps as a result, becoming a collector imperceptibly.

Most of the objects emerged dirty, rusty or incomplete, and he therefore taught himself the craft of restoration, fixing everything himself. Thanks to publicity provided by the Hungarian News Agency the collection of lamps gained worldwide renown. At present there are 1,000-1,100 lighting appliances in the country’s only Lamp Museum.

The institution was included in the Guinness Book of Records in 1995, it was admitted to the International Lamp Club in America in 1980, and became a member of the Australian Museums Association in 1983. The museum founder Ferenc Borus was rewarded with the President of the Republic’s gold memorial coin in 1999, and was selected as an honorary citizen of Zsámbék in 1998. The Hungarian Post Office issued a stamp of the Lamp Museum in 2013.

LAMP MUSEUM

H-2072 Zsámbék, Magyar utca 18.

GPS: 47.324767, 18.4325

Admission ticket prices:

adults: 700 HUF/person

students, pensioners: 400 HUF/person

groups, from 10 persons: 400 HUF/person

student groups, pensioner groups: 300 HUF/person

family admission (2 adults + 2 children): 1,400 HUF

Opening hours:

1 April – 31 October: Tuesdays to Sundays: 10:00–18:00; 1 Novembe – 31 March: Tuesdays to Sundays: 10:00–16:00