“Earnest, professional work in a good atmosphere”
Ágota S. Perémi, archaeologist, museologist, new director of the Dezső Laczkó Museum, Veszprém
MúzeumCafé 42.
Following the five-year-period of Gabor Limbacher as director, three people applied for the post – the former director himself, ethnographer Veronica Schweit-zer and Agora S. Perémi, archaeologist, museologist and head of the museum’s Department of Archaeology. Ms Perémi identified the most urgent future tasks for the museum as ensuring internal calm and securing the appropriate financing, while she envisaged the establishment of a more modern museum by implementing medium and long-term plans. Her application highlighted that with good strategies the museum could be turned into a well-operating institution. The general assembly – which had previously stipulated that the new director of the museum, burdened with many internal conflicts for years, first had to set things right – unanimously supported Ágota S. Perémi and she was appointed to direct the museum for five years from 1 July 2014. After graduation, Ms Perémi began working as an archaeo-logist at the Dezső Laczkó Museum. Later she became head of the Department of Archaeology and was deputy director for five years. She knows the county museum well, which must have played a part in her appointment, since the museum needed a director familiar with every nook and cranny. Her application outlined medium and long-term plans, which had earlier been absent from the museum’s pers-pectives. A large-scale plan for the forthcoming years involves staging a new permanent exhibition presenting Veszprém – the ‘town of Queens’ – with ethnography and archaeology in focus. Yet before making precise plans for such an exhibition the regular circle of visitors must be surveyed. Who else can the museum address? Up-to-date, modern exhibitions must be staged.