The Sóstó Village Museum (Sóstói Múzeumfalu) is one of the best ethnographic open-air museums in Hungary. Around 80 historic rural buildings — farmhouses, granaries, windmills, churches — have been relocated from villages across the northeastern Hungarian plains and reassembled in a wooded setting next to the Sóstó lake.
The collection focuses on the vernacular architecture and material culture of the Nyírség, Rétköz, Szatmár, and Bereg regions — areas that retained strong folk traditions well into the 20th century. Each building is furnished as it would have been lived in, giving a genuine sense of rural life before industrialisation. Allow two to three hours. The museum is in the Sóstó resort district, 5 km north of the city centre, and easily combined with a visit to the baths or the zoo.