Afrika Múzeum — Attraction in Tapolcai járás

This is a small zoo of African species, but no big cats or elephants, thankfully. I entirely disagree with keeping animals captive, although there were some domesticated species, which seemed happy enough.

The museum itself is small but packed with interesting things from the life of the founder, Dr Endre Nagy; his daughter still lives there and is happy to talk to people about her father and the museum - a fascinating, stylish lady.

This place boasts of the best gift shop I have ever seen: full of gorgeous minerals at reasonable prices.

To be honest, I had a great time there and learnt some interesting things. I only took two points off due to my dislike of keeping wild animals...

The zoo is small and far less interesting than a museum; however, you don’t want to miss that either. There are a few types of animals, but you can watch them closely. And don’t miss the very famous old owl (57 years old). But the main event is the museum. You cannot imagine the number of interesting items in just a few rooms. And you must listen to the stories of each item by Zoltan Csonki, who has an endless amount of interesting stories and information about literary everything. You want nothing but to sit there like a Masai person beside the fire and listen to the stories for hours and hours. A highly recommended place to visit. It’s just a few hours,...

The museum consists of one building, which is not really about Africa, but more about a hunter named Nagy Endre. The house consists of mostly taxedermied animals. It feels more like a trophy case than a museum. There are some animals, but the conditions are poor for some. Not a lot of space and bare concrete for the raccoons, birds and monkeys. Not a lot of space for some bigger animals like camels and antilopes And they looked badly cared for. There was a bouncy castle and a "mini-jungle" which would be quite fun for kids to play around in. It's fun, but not worth the price and bad...