Kanizsa’s Cultural Collections Center Institutional Unit 
Hungarian Poster House - Fine Arts House Tel:  +36/93/510 -031  +36/93/510 -031 ,  +36/93/313 -920  +36/93/313 -920

8800 Nagykanizsa, Erzsébet tér 14-15.


Under number 15th of Erzsebet square, on the eastern side of the park is located  a late Baroque-style multi-store building. It was built around 1800 to serve as a barn. The building façade ends in tympanum, the small stone-framed windows hardly divide the wall surface. The iron door entrance could be the original as well. The interior suggests the nature of the barn. This building today hosts the unique for the country Hungarian Poster House.

Next to the barn,opposite to the entrance is situated a beautiful neoclassic villa. It was built in 1874 to serve as summer house to Mary Krausz. Before the II WPrld War it was property of the grain merchant Lazar Laszlo. The building was renovated in 1996, and received gallery functions. The gallery permanent exhibition consist of the heritage of  Elizabeth Sass Brunner and Elizabeth Brunner (mother and daughter), whose paintings guide us trough the  Eastern world, as well as the Kanizsa-born but living in Kaposvár, Z. Istvan Soos painter's life oeuvre.

Hungarian Poster House

"The poster is only a means, a means of communication between buyers and sellers, such as the telegraph. The poster fulfills the role of the telegrapher – it does not send messages, but it transmits them. It should not give opinion, but it is expected to have clear, precise and good to establish mediation. "(AM Cassandre)

Nagykanizsa County Town Assembly development concept under "Renewable Nagykanizsa" title in September 2005. The renewal of the historic city center as well as the entire rehabilitation of the cultural complex buildings, located in the downtown, serves the objective of increasing local patriotism and identity. As part of the program, on 27th September 2006 opened doors the first and only Hungarian Poster House on Erzsébet square number 14-15. The former granary building went through full reconstruction funded by the European Union’s, "Integrated local development actions” Phare program, an investment of around 200 million forints (the Phare Program Number: HU2003/004-347.05.05).