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Kálmán Imre Múzeum
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Kálmán Imre Múzeum

🏗 1987-01-01

Kálmán Imre’s story in Siófok begins in the very house where he was born, on Kálmán Imre Sétány—now home to the Kálmán Imre Múzeum. The museum opened on October 22, 1987, timed to the composer’s 105th birthday. In the permanent exhibition on the ground floor, you see objects from his estate, including his piano, anchoring the room’s operatic legends in everyday material reality. Even the experience is built around music: the exhibition rooms include audio excerpts from his world-famous operettas, so the building keeps a composer’s rhythm rather than treating it only as a relic. The museum’s holdings also grew through family generosity. In August 1991, his widow Vera Kálmán and their children Yvonne and Charles donated several items that had been displayed at the Hofburg in Vienna, including a bust of Kálmán Imre by sculptor E. D. …

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