
Room 8
Near to the entrance of this room are show-cases which display archaeological finds recovered from the border castles. The paintings hanging on the left side of the room recall 17th-century galleries of ancestors, while the show-cases beneath them present upper-class attire of the kinds depicted in the paintings. On the right-hand side of the corridor, coins minted in the 16th–17th century in Transylvania and in Hungary are exhibited, along with artefacts from the treasuries of magnate families and furniture from the time. The period of the ending of Ottoman rule in Hungary is presented by means of weapons used by the Holy League Christian alliance forces and by the Ottoman armies, and by means of the tapestry placed near to the exit door.
INTERESTING FACTS:
Instruments used by a surgeon of the day came to light at the Bajcsa border castle.
Pocket watches were in use in the 17th century.
The largest-sized Transylvanian gold coins were 100-ducat pieces issued by Michael I Apafi.
Abdurrahman, the last pasha of Buda, died in battle near what is today Hess András Square in Buda.
A sabre once belonging to John Sobieski, king of Poland, recalls the Holy League Christian alliance which drove the Ottomans from Hungary.