The Museum of Agricultural Machines Hajdu Ráfis János

The museum comprising the private collection of several hundreds of articles owned by János Hajdu Ráfis was opened in 1979. In its current area of 2.685 m2 agricultural machines and equipment are found in village museum type buildings fitting into the environment. All tools can be found here from the vehicles operated with animal power and used from the middle of the 19th Century to the modern tractors used until the middle of the 20th Century. The museum is located in Mezőkövesd in the part where only the so called "farm-yards" without farmhouses were found in the middle of the 19th Century. Its memory is preserved by the stable, the lathe, the so-called "félszer" and the piggery called “hídas”, all are situated in the front part of the museum. The farm-yard was the workplace and living space of men and older boys. They started from here to the lands and got the animals out the fields and they returned here in the evening. Today the most widely used power source is the engine which went through great improvement with time. Visitors can study this through the ancient motors of the museum from the gas motors operated with lighting gas to the stable engines operated with liquid fuel. The collection comprises more than 100 different type and sized stable motors and 45 old tractors. In the other section of the exhibition visitors can see contemporary fire fighting equipment, inductor aggregators, ice-making plant, blacksmith workshop, wrought iron exhibition and folk art exhibition. The significant events of the Machine Museum include the pet stroking and blacksmiths’ meeting in the framework of Matyó Easter, furthermore the National Agricultural Machine Summit organised at the beginning of September each year.