“It’s necessary to think on a state level about developing the brand of Hungarian painting” Péter Molnos, art historian MúzeumCafé 48. author: Judit Jankó Art historian Péter Molnos is not fully involved in the museum system yet he has helped stage many exhibitions. Recently he was the curator of Pictures of a Disappearing World, an exhibition at the Rómer Flóris Arts and History Museum about the oeuvre of Count Gyula Batthyány, which was first staged at the Kieselbach Gallery. […]
“I am a believer in the object-centred museum” Zoltán Székely, art historian, director of the Hanság Museum in Mosonmagyaróvár MúzeumCafé 48. author: Éva Marton The Hanság Museum in Mosonmagyaróvár, the former capital of Moson County, is one of Hungary’s oldest museums. Like all the others, it used to be part of a county museum structure, though it broke from that in 2011, before reorganisation of the structure, and the local town authority took over its funding. Zoltán Székely, previously […]
“Kiscell was my love” Margit Egry Mrs Ferenc Tőkei, former director of the Kiscell Museum MúzeumCafé 48. author: Emőke Gréczi When planning the series about museologists of previous decades, MúzeumCafé aims to look at institutes not covered in earlier interviews. Thus recently an approach was made to someone who retired from museum life many years ago, namely Margit Egry Mrs Ferenc Tőkei, who worked in the Kiscell Museum for decades in a variety of positions, […]
Heritage and memory of peasant burgher life in Kiskunhalas The Thorma János Museum in Kiskunhalas MúzeumCafé 48. author: Gellért Rajcsányi The founding father of the Kiskunhalas museum was a certain Áron Szilády, a Calvinist pastor who was simultaneously a historian, linguist, orientalist, academician and politician. The collection found a home in the building of the new grammar school. A major inventory undertaken in 1940 accounted for 13,000 items. According to an assessment of 1948–49, altogether […]
After a gap of two generations Parliament can again boast of its own museum MúzeumCafé 48. author: Katica Kocsis “As one of the final steps in the process of making laws during the last parliamentary cycle, the idea of modifying the law on Parliament was raised, in the framework of which a Parliament Museum was established by law as a national specialist museum.” Thus wrote Gyula Kedves, head of the museum, in A Nemzet […]
The ‘phantom’ can at last materialise Museum of Hungarian Architecture dreams of a home for itself MúzeumCafé 48. author: Dániel Kovács, art historian, manager of the MOME Project and Development Office If the dreams become a reality with the Liget Budapest project, the Hungarian Architecture Museum will be able to celebrate half a century of existence in its own building. The life of Hungary’s smallest specialist national museum, which currently has a single permanent employee, has certainly been eventful. Despite its precarious existence, it has created […]
A walk as simultaneously a work of art and guided tour Budapest, a city to be explained MúzeumCafé 48. author: Emőke Gréczi It is difficult to find the appropriate approach to a relatively fresh, not thoroughly analysed topic such as the city walk. MúzeumCafé highlights a possible perspective (Budapest as a museum) and approaching the theme with museological definitions can provide a starting point. Today an exhibition about history or the arts simultaneously represents cultural and social […]
Medieval time travel in a small Palots town MúzeumCafé 48. author: János Hír, palaeontologist, director of the Pásztó Museum There was a place with some ten thousand residents in northern Hungary, which in 1984 had just officially regained its town status. There was an ambitious county museum director, Mihály Praznovszky, who decided to establish the county’s fourth museum. There was an inspector in the field of natural sciences, Tibor Kecskeméti, who pestered the county […]
Battles of the Seven Magyars Interactive military history project at the Ópusztaszer Heritage Park MúzeumCafé 48. author: Tamás Baltavári (Historical Animation Association) and Gábor Turda (Ópusztaszer Heritage Park) The Conquest and the subsequent so-called era of incursions was one of the richest chapters in Hungarian military history. However, in public consciousness the period is somewhat vague and generally it is the portentous defeat at Augsburg which comes to mind. Fortunately, thanks to the latest research and changing views of history, we can rediscover […]
Educational dimensions in London’s art museums MúzeumCafé 48. author: Julianna Joó, art historian, museum education officer It is well-known that entry to London’s museums is generally free. What is not so well-known is that since the introduction of the policy in 1997 numerous museum education projects have been launched, for example the Museums and Galleries Education Programme, involving innovative educational projects, or Culture Online, which introduced online services for schools and […]