Kovács Zsuzsa: Göcsej Village Museum. Exhibition Guide (Zalaegerszeg, 2008)

8. FARMHOUSE FROM KÁVÁS The first building of the museum is this loghouse with a painted gable. The family who owned it wanted to build a new house because they could not modernize it in any way apart from adding a chimney. Dr Imre Szentmihályi, the director of the museum at that time, discovered this beautifully decorated house in 1952 and was able to buy it for the museum in 1959. The croft where this house is exhibited now, actually comprises the home of a better off family. This is indicated for example, by a distillery hut in the farmyard, because only those farmers who had enough fruit to produce 'pálinka' (strong spirit) in an economical way could have a distillery. A stable with many rooms was also a sign of the property status of the farmer because that meant he could afford to keep many horses and cattle. Only the richer farmers were able to build a stable like this one here. Here all the biggest farming equipment and the fodder for the animals could be accommodated. The house consists of a room, a kitchen and a pantry. The room's interior is shown as a gilded room, for according to the imagined situation,, suitors are at the house. For this marriage arrangement occasion the table is covered with a tablecloth,