How could issues of ownership reassuringly be resolved in the successors of county museums? MúzeumCafé 36. According to Zoltán Székely, art historian and director of the Hanság Museum in Mosonmagyaróvár, the proprietary rights of artworks in a museum is one of a number of problems involving numerous questions. Some concern the basis of the institutional system. If local authorities do not contribute to financing the running costs of museums, was there […]
New forms of presentation on the frontiers of cinematography and fine arts EYE Film Institute Netherlands, Amsterdam MúzeumCafé 36. author: Brigitta Iványi-Bitter, art historian, curator A striking new museum and the current star of classical modern arts definitely make for a good combination. Since it opened last year, EYE Film Institute Netherlands has quickly generated international attention. The institute’s third exhibition of 2012 featured the abstract films, paintings and technical experiments of Oskar Fischinger, who is clearly being rediscovered. Last […]
Value preservation and renewal A conversation with art historian György Szücs MúzeumCafé 35. author: Judit Jankó György Szücs was the deputy director of the Hungarian National Gallery, initially under director Lóránd Bereczky and later Ferenc Csák. From January to September last year, before it merged with the Fine Arts Museum, he headed the National Gallery as its acting director, a position he maintained with success such that now he is the […]
“A place where questions give rise to good, precise, sincere answers…” Lajos Kemecsi, the new director of the Museum of Ethnography MúzeumCafé 35. author: Éva Marton During the past ten years Lajos Kemecsi was head of museology and later scientific director at the open-air village museum, known as the Skanzen, in Szentendre. Late last year he was appointed director of the Museum of Ethnography in central Budapest. He regards it important for the new circumstances, as well as the economic, social […]
“Ars longa … there’s no end to it.” Jenő Murádin, cluj-napoca on hungarian museology in romania MúzeumCafé 35. author: Emőke Gréczi The interview with art historian Jenő Murádin who lives in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, was to present his life and career, yet it has rather turned into an overview of art, art history and museums in Transylvania. Still, it hopefully manages to show what problems and obstacles he has had to face in researching Hungarian art history, […]
“We are also captives of our resources” Collections of art colleges and universities in Hungary MúzeumCafé 35. author: Nóra Busi Vágvölgyi In Hungary higher education in the arts can be traced back to 1871. At that time Hungary still lacked a museum where students could view an art collection relevant to their studies. Thus after the Hungarian Royal Model Drawing School (today the Hungarian University of Fine Arts) was established it was keen to develop its […]
“He was the Cézanne and the Gauguin of Hungarian painting” Renovation of the Rippl-Rónai’s villa in Kaposvár MúzeumCafé 35. author: Gellért Rajcsányi Rippl-Rónai’s villa is now officially known as the József Rippl-Rónai Memorial House and Visitor Centre. Its collection and exhibitions are managed by the art history department of its parent museum based in Kaposvár and every year works by Rippl-Rónai are given on loan for major exhibitions abroad. The museum has a staff of 48 and […]
“The Cuypers concept continues” Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum reopens MúzeumCafé 35. author: Sándor Juhász After being closed for a decade the Rijksmuseum reopened in April. Now visitors enter not only a renovated building but also a completely new museum meeting 21st-century requirements in all respects. Reconstruction was not without its problems. Some minor scandals along with technical and financial issues affected deadlines and the date for reopening was delayed […]
Madagascar and savannah: cage bars versus enclosures A museologist’s overview of zoos in Hungary MúzeumCafé 35. author: Marianna Berényi What collects, engages in research, educates, presents and entertains, yet is not a museum? A zoo! In view of their similar activities, a comparison of museums and zoos might seem obvious. However, zoos cannot easily be treated as public collections, in either the legal or practical sense. While museums preserve objects for posterity, zoos collecting […]
An Experience of Values House of Collections in Kecskemét MúzeumCafé 35. author: János Bozsó jr. and Klára Loránd, curators A future researcher surveying Hungary’s cultural history of the 1970s will not have great difficulty in listing public collections that were created by private initiative. There were devoted collectors and various channels of the art trade existed, even though they did not really feature at an official level. Official museology and the sphere of private […]