The 140-year-old farmhouse evokes the past as a country house The Country House was created in one of the oldest, 140-year-old farmhouses in Bogács, presenting the living conditions of landless peasants. Most of its furniture is from a collection, so the XIX. end of the century, the XX. the objects reflect the beginning of the century. Folk costumes and clothing from Bogács Palóc can also be found among the exhibition pieces.

Both the house and the fence were built of stone – like almost everything in Bogács – the stones were stuck together with mud.

The building dates back to the 19th century. It is a representative of the three-part farmhouse type developed at the end of the 19th century: its rooms – room, kitchen, pantry – follow one another. Its short end faces the street, its only entrance leads to the middle room, the atrium (kitchen), the other rooms open from here. Only the barn has a separate entrance.

The rammed earth room is the only heated living space, here you can see the “top” of the dome furnace, the fireplace opens to the atrium. The current furnace was rebuilt by Attila Dorogi, a local building and stone sculptor and ethnographer. The open chimney of the house is much more advanced than the chimneys of the time, because it does not spread the smoke inside the building, but leads it outside through the roof.

In the atrium, which serves as the kitchen, the stove is located under the open chimney, i.e. the bench in front of the mouth of the oven, i.e. the heating opening. In addition to baking bread and pasta, sausages, and meat, the oven was also used for cooking: beans, peas, lentils, and grain corn were usually cooked in it, and even fruit was dried.

The most important storage space in the house is the pantry, primarily the place for cereals, flour, bran, bacon, sausage and other food raw materials.

There is a single bed in the room. The farmer and his wife slept on this bed, the rest of the family slept on the horse’s saddle, in the corner of the furnace, on straw or straw sacks spread on the ground. The cellar of the farmhouse was the place where the wives and the grown-up girls slept, even in winter.

The barn is integrated with the house, but has a separate entrance. They kept goats in it, since they didn’t need draft animals due to the lack of land, they needed dairy animals to provide milk and milk products. In the barn, you can currently see old tools: tools for hemp processing, quarrying and stone carving, wooden tools, and other pieces.