What kind of professional possibilities exist in Hungary today for launching systematic archaeological explorations and satisfactorily concluding them?

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Zsófia Frazon, ethnographer, museologist and senior staff member of the Museum of Ethnography, believes that when a museum steps out of its building and enters the open urban space, it forms an entirely different pattern of social relations. MaDok LABOR was an experiment involving entering the urban arena, forming a non-museum space, cooperation and dialogue-based museum work, along with free thinking and openness.

 

According to Péter Rostás, art historian and deputy director of the Budapest History Museum,  a significant phenomenon of current museology, experienced in different ways, is that museums are staging exhibitions in urban spaces, away from their own buildings. Institutions established for developing, maintaining and processing a collection are simply leaving their bases, the buildings specially designed for them.

 

Tamás Végvári, economist, museum manager and deputy head of the Fine Arts Museum’s secretariat, thinks that street exhibitions certainly expand the possibilities of presentation, since a collection’s objects involved in such a manner in a public context speak to quite different people and in a different way, than when displayed inside a museum. Such was the Barcelona street exhibition, which drew attention to the Museum of Fine Arts.

 

According to Tünde Császtvay, literary historian, museologist and deputy director of the Hungarian National Museum, the museum’s tour involving six locations across the country was a spectacular success. The display was seen by tens of thousands, and in one place the number surpassed 100,000. The content related to the past and the present – the past of the National Museum, a strong stress on its present, including its future.