Museum educationalists from the Pesterzsébet Attila József primary school receive awards MúzeumCafé 25. author: Péter Hamvay The Attila József primary school in Budapest’s Pesterzsébet district is Hungary’s only museum education training school. Last year two of its teachers were the first to receive the award ‘Museum Friendly Teachers’ and the school itself gained the title ‘Museum Friendly School’. MúzeumCafé spoke to the teachers about museums and school education. Museums can be […]
“Let it be worth travelling here from Budapest for an exhibition.” Krisztián Kukla philosopher, new director of Debrecen’s MODEM MúzeumCafé 25. author: Roland Borsos Krisztián Kukla is the recently appointed director of Debrecen’s Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts (Modem). Kukla left Nyíregyháza College for the museum, where he was promoted to director from deputy in May. He was vice dean at the college and is well familiar with ideas about communicating fine arts to the public. He lectured […]
Educational shivering, or a stroll in the heart Benedek Varga, director of the Semmelweis Museum of Medical History, the Museum of the Year, 2011 MúzeumCafé 25. author: Judit Jankó The medical history element in the Görgei exhibition is important. It is about the frailty of a young man whose determination was close to being violent. It’s about the fact that you can survive a head injury if you feel you still have things to do. The exhibition is about the knowledge compiled in a […]
The Museum of Radio and TV’s adventurous journey from the hobby of two colleagues to its opening MúzeumCafé 25. author: Gellért Rajcsányi The story began long ago when in 1942 the noted Gyula Ortutay proposed the establishment of a Radio Museum. Ortutay, director Miklós Kozma and an employee of Hungarian Radio – believed that the recordings, documents and equipment should be preserved for posterity. However, the war upset the plans and during the siege the historical archive […]
The Petőfi Birthplace and Memorial Museum in Kiskőrös MúzeumCafé 25. author: Nóra Vágvölgyi Petőfi’s place of birth opened as a museum in its present form in 1997 and the following year it was joined by the local Slovak folk art house. The idea was to introduce the poet in the broadest possible way. Petőfi’s birthplace reflects a characteristic 19th-century family atmosphere; the collection of statues communicates a sense […]
The collector who trusted his own taste On the founder and the collection of the now ten-year-old Leopold Museum in Vienna MúzeumCafé 25. author: Ernő P. Szabó The anniversary, coinciding with that of the establishment ten years ago of the museum quarter in the area of the former imperial stables, is being marked by a series of events throughout the year. Following the Jugendstil jewelry exhibition and the Magic of the Object photographic display, two exhibitions opened on 23 September – Melancholy […]
The functions of museum ceremonial halls How can museums make good use of spaces originally created for society events? MúzeumCafé 25. author: Marianna Berényi The wheel has turned full circle. Today visitors can use a museum for a variety of purposes, elevating their own events by using its rooms and halls. This doesn’t only apply to buildings taken over by the state after 1945, since quite a lot of museum buildings both in Hungary and western Europe came into […]
The symbol of the Sekler nation in silver Exhibition at the Haáz Rezső Museum in Odorheiu Secuiesc MúzeumCafé 25. author: Jenő Zepeczaner, historian The three ‘nations’, Sekler, Saxon and Hungarian, represented a constitutional rather than an ethnic concept. “The three nations (natio) are only partly identical with the three ethnic groups. The Hungarian ethnic groups constituted two nations: the Seklers who inherited a separate legal status from the age before the Battle of Mohács and the Hungarians who […]
The Hungarian National Museum announced its first regular opening hours 200 years ago MúzeumCafé 25. author: Béla Debreczeni-Droppán, historian, archivist, museologist, Hungarian National Museum In the history of the Hungarian National Museum the year 1811 is particularly important. From the initial establishment of the museum in 1802 to its actual functioning many years had to pass and in that process an important stage was marked on 30 June 1811 with the introduction of the museum’s first official opening hours. […]
Portraits of art patron Marcell Nemes From Rippl-Rónai to Oskar Kokoschka MúzeumCafé 25. author: István Németh, art historian and curator of the exhibition For decades József Rippl-Rónai was a close friend of Marcell Nemes (1866-1930), who was legendary during his own lifetime as an art collector and patron. In his memoirs Ferenc Medgyessy wrote that when Rippl-Rónai heard that the wife of Nemes had died he paid a visit of condolences and that after a few words he […]