The freezing section
Skating on the lake and harvesting ice.
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Yes, in most cold winters, because it is shallow (three metres average); people walked and skated on it and cut its ice for cooling.
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The lake's story in a building of 1928: the Balaton Museum in Keszthely was purpose-built as a museum in neo-Baroque style, and tells everything about Central Europe's largest lake — how it formed twenty thousand years ago, its birds and fish in dioramas, the life of fishermen and reed cutters, and the history of navigation from log boats to steamers. The archaeology wings cover the Romans in the region and Bronze Age villages on the shore, and a whole section is devoted to the lake freezing: skating on it and harvesting ice in winter — and to tourism itself: how Balaton became "the Hungarians' sea" in the nineteenth century when the country had no sea. An hour that explains everything you will see afterwards on the shores. In Keszthely, minutes from the Festetics Palace and the pier.
Skating on the lake and harvesting ice.
From hollowed trunk to steamer.
Múzeum utca 2, Keszthely