Cobblestone Children's Museum (Eggenberg House)
The Eggenberg House, located at 12 Szent György Street, a building that has played a significant role in the town's church history, is now home to the Cobblestone Children's Museum.
In the second half of the 17th century - during the period of the Counter-Reformation - it was the site of Lutheran church services that were forbidden in the town, where the pastor spoke to the faithful on an ornate stone pulpit upstairs opposite the street gate.
In 2017, the Sopron Museum opened its new exhibition area here, which is a gap-filling community space where children can playfully discover the world of bygone eras in their own ways. In the Cobblestone Museum, the children's museum is located in the street front, and in the part of the building that opens to the courtyard there is a museum education room.
The exhibition features old objects from Roman times to the present day related to children's daily routine, such as sleeping, bathing and dressing. These are from the museum’s various collections and are stored in traditional containers. The artefacts are accompanied by short descriptions and texts revealing their interesting features. One special feature of the Cobblestone Museum is that behind the thematic arrangement an internal, interactive space opens up, where the little ones can learn in the exhibition space in a sensorial way by solving playful tasks. They can feast at an ancient dining table, play with games that are a century old, they can also sit in a hundred-year-old school desk, or they can try out how a child of their age once dressed.
Opening hours in Cobblestone Children's Museum from February 24 (pre-season opening hours):Friday 14:00-18:00, Saturday - Sunday 10:00-18:00
NEW TICKET COMBINATION FOR FAMILIES
With the combination ticket you can visit the following child-friendly exhibitions in downtown Sopron:
- Macskakő Children's Museum (Sopron Szent György u. 12)
- Évárium Toy Collection (Sopron, Kolostor utca 7.)
- Exhibition "Fairytale history" in the Museum Quarter (Sopron, Fő tér 6-8.)
- Adventure Mine in the Central Mining Museum (Sopron, Templom utca 2.)
Info on admission prices (ticket combination for families)
Adult: 5500 HUF
Child ticket: 2750 HUF
Family for 2 adults and 1 or 2 children: 13000 HUF
Family for 1 adult and 2 children: 8500 HUF
