Folk Fun And Food At Sunny House (Napsugaras Ház)

Discover folk culture at Sunny House in Szeged: kids’ craft camps, museum classes, heritage cooking, and St. Martin’s Day crafts with Bulgarian flavors and live music. Email for current dates.

Sunny House (Napsugaras Ház) – Alsóváros Open-Air Museum (Alsóvárosi Tájház) in Szeged (6700, 43 Nyíl Street) offers a year of folk programs, ethnography talks, hands-on workshops, and delicious heritage cooking. Kids get the best of it in summer craft camps tailored to preschool, elementary, and high school groups, where they dive into folk culture—especially the peasant heritage of Szeged-Alsóváros—through games, rituals, and material culture tied to red-letter days. Museum classes explore customs for the year’s big dates, from dramatic play to the tools and textiles linked to each topic.

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Note: there’s currently NO ACTIVE DATE listed on our portal for this listing, so details may be OUT OF DATE. For up-to-date information, email the organizers.

St. Martin’s Day

November 8, 2025, 10:00–13:00. In Hungarian tradition, St. Martin’s emblem is the goose—and the saying goes, skip goose today, stay hungry all year. Curious about the rituals around this feast, or just up for making things? Drop by. Crafts on deck:
– goose puppets
– goose lanterns
– felt and textile geese
– window pictures
Ticket: $3.31 per person

From Martenitsa to Banitsa – Bulgaria’s Flavors and Traditions

November 8, 2025, 14:00–18:00. Find out how banitsa helps a fairy-tale hero, where lokum comes from, and which dishes anchor Bulgaria’s autumn festivals—or just come if you’re culture-curious. Pianist-composer Dr. György Klebniczki sets the mood with a live talk, Bulgarian Rhythms. We’ll make: sweet banitsa, Bulgarian moussaka, patatnik, pitka, jutanica, lokum. Ticket: $8.28

2025, adrienne



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