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Ladics House
Built on one level in the early nineteenth century, this common baroque house served as a notary house.
Lawyer Dr. György Ladics and his wife were the first to reside here and in later years their descendants, until
its final transformation into a museum. The family liked to preserve tradition. And so all the objects that reflect
the lifestyle of the family - furniture, wallpaper, decorations, clothes, even personal items which reflect
their spiritual lives - remained practically unaltered throughout the five generations that followed.
The town of Gyula decided to establish a museum after buying the house and contents. It’s a unique collection
indeed. With no exaggeration we are very proud of this collection and proud that the legacy of Ladics
family has a particular value to the town of Gyula. In a unique way this fully furnished house is an independent
source of history having born witness to life of middle-class citizens who lived in the rural areas in the
time of dualism in Hungary, especially the period between the two world wars. Across Hungary no other
such houses have been so preserved. We have some reflecting the poverty and simplicity of the people
who worked the land, and on the opposite side we have palaces and pompous halls, mansions and castles
of the nobles of the royal houses, full of shimmering delights. Therefore Ladics House is an absolute novelty,
because it presents the lifestyle of the citizens of the middle class of society.
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