Urban history and fine arts on the ruins The Budapest History Museum’s Kiscell Museum MúzeumCafé 50. author: Emőke Gréczi Although many parallels could be drawn between the Zichy Mansion (see MúzeumCafé 46) and the Kiscell monastery and church complex, compared with the more centrally located mansion, the monastery (later also a mansion), with its essentially isolated and more difficult to reach location perhaps indicates a relative drawback – or maybe not. There are few […]
“I had the conception of an El Kazovsky image and I tried to demonstrate that…” András Rényi, aesthetician, curator of the Hungarian National Gallery’s exhibition MúzeumCafé 50. author: Emőke Gréczi The El Kazovsky exhibition was preceded by greater expectations than those generated by the presentation of more recent oeuvres. The mythology of the artist is the mythology of a generation, full of unanswered aesthetic, socio-historical, cultural-historical and psychological questions. The following generations, however, have waited to see whether there is something valid today in the […]
The Barbizon artists’ colony, past and present – without hungarians MúzeumCafé 50. author: Gabriella Borbély Journalist, Paris In the heart of France there is a small, concealed settlement, where the almost spiritual lure of undefiled nature is intertwined with creativity and the arts. Barbizon is still a utopian-like place, where man and nature are in ideal symbiosis. The 1830s saw the arrival of several French artists who, leaving their studios, had the […]
Women’s lives in the 20th century at a “parallel” exhibition in Odorheiu Secuiesc MúzeumCafé 50. author: Zoltán Katona An unusual exhibition for Sekler Land museums opened at the HaázRezső Museum in OdorheiuSecuiesc in the spring of 2015. Anna – a Woman’s Life in the 20th Century recalls the last century through one woman’s two paths of life, and does so by displaying ethnographic items which are still used in Sekler Land today. Visitors […]
Restoration of the than memorial house in Bečej and the portrait of Queen Elisabeth in Sombor MúzeumCafé 50. author: Zsuzsanna Papp Korhecz, restorer, Subotica Town Museum Mór Than (1828–1899), an outstanding figure in Hungarian historical and monumental painting and his brother Károly Than (1834–1908), a pharmacist and professor of chemistry, a member of the Academy were both born in Bečej in the Southern part of historical Hungary. The Society of Intellectuals for the Than Brothers was founded in Bečej in 1995 with the […]
A nude and train windows or the changing constancy A few possibilities for occasionally changing permanent exhibitions MúzeumCafé 50. author: Marianna Berényi What can a museum do if it has no possibility of refreshing its permanent exhibition, if it remains almost as a museum historical curiosity, and is not satisfied with simply presenting its latest research results in temporary exhibitions, events and publications? What opportunities does a museum have to show that its several-decades-old permanent exhibition no […]
Cultural institutions on the semantic web Opportunities of aliada software MúzeumCafé 50. author: Ádám Horváth The piece begins with a summary of Kevin Kelly’s views, presented at a TEDX lecture in 2007. His observations can still be regarded as valid. In Kelly’s view the development of the network has gone through the following phases: in the beginning computers got connected; it was the period of Telnet and Gopher when, with […]
Development of the museum structure in the Czech Republic and the situation today MúzeumCafé 50. author: Beatrix Basics Development of the museum structure in the Czech Republic and the situation today Any examination of the Czech museum structure initially requires a study of the country’s history. From 1629 the Czech Lands comprised hereditary provinces of the Habsburg Empire and included important cultural and industrial centres. The significance of German language and culture did […]
For how long should a museum’s permanent exhibition be staged and what kind of perspectives have to be addressed? MúzeumCafé 50. According to EmíliaMartyin, ethnographic museologist and department head at the MunkácsyMihály Museum, a permanent exhibition should communicate with the visitor, disseminate knowledge by means of original objects, be scientific, give the visitor freedom, be periodically renewed, create connections between past and present, serve education and the needs of the public, maintain its position in the […]
Exhibitions in an art nouveau town hall The Subotica Municipal Museum and the Vojvodina Hungarian Art Gallery MúzeumCafé 50. author: Olga K. Ninkov, art historian, fine arts department consultant at The Subotica Municipal Museum The foundation of the Szabadka (today Subotica, Serbia) Museum is linked with events of 120 years ago. In a document dated 13 July 1873, the Hungarian Royal Ministry for Religion and Public Education expressed the desire that the scientific and artistic collections in the country be spread as widely as possible, including in the provincial […]