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Insect of the Year 2012 and the mantis collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum

MúzeumCafé 32.

author: András Paulovkin (Hungarian Entomological Society), Gellért Puskás and Ottó Merkl (Hungarian Natural History Museum)

Goblins and pixies play a part in folk tales, myths and stories. Yet a very real being exists in Hungary, as elsewhere, known as the praying mantis. In certain traditions it is regarded as an evil and treacherous creature, similarly to its namesakes, while sometimes it is respected as having mystical wisdom. Partly due to […]

Iovia

A recently discovered Roman town in East Transdanubia

MúzeumCafé 32.

author: Endre Tóth, archaeologist, historian, head of department, Hungarian National Museum

The exploration of the late Roman fortress at Alsóhetény started off as a routine excavation, yet it produced unexpected results with regard to the history of settlements in northeast Pannonia. The settlement network of the Roman province has become known over the past 50 years. Archaeologists of the Hungarian National Museum have done excavations in […]

1912 – Mission Moderne

Recalling the Sonderbund exhibition of a century ago in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum

MúzeumCafé 32.

author: Barbara Schaefer, art historian, curator of the exhibition

It was exactly a century ago, in 1912, that the third international exhibition of the Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler was held in Cologne. The organisers set up the exhibition with the explicit aim of helping contemporary art to achieve a break-through. This aim was achieved. To this day the exhibition has been regarded as […]

What should the House of Hungarian Music planned for the new museum quarter in Budapest collect and exhibit – and how?

MúzeumCafé 32.

According to the Hungarian News Agency’s managing editor, Márton Devich, it has not yet crystallised what character the museum would have, whether it should have a permanent and expanding collection in the traditional sense or rather be a ‘house of music’, providing an overview of Hungarian music while attracting tourists with spectacular productions. It ought […]

A museum bestseller about Pannonia’s beetles

Talking with the authors, Ottó Merkl and Károly Vig

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author: Marianna Berényi

It rarely happens in the life of Hungarian museums that an impressive book is published regarding not only its size but also content, moreover in two editions. In addition to comprehensively introducing 1800 species and 114 beetle families, the 500-page Beetles in the Pannonian Region is simply beautiful. With its 700 photographs and drawings, the […]