Double display about the Matthias Church at the Budapest History Museum’s Castle Museum and the Church of Our Lady MúzeumCafé 48. author: Péter Farbaky, art historian, director of the Budapest History Museum, and Lilla Farbakyné Deklava, art historian, member of the Art History Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Research Centre for the Humanities The Matthias Church is simultaneously one of the most well-known listed monuments in Budapest, the parish church of the Buda Castle District, one of the country’s most important ecclesiastical buildings and the site of many noted events in Hungarian history. Restoration undertaken between 2004 and 2013 required new research touching on both the building’s history […]
Picking up the Pieces Jewish exhibition at the Museum of Ethnography MúzeumCafé 48. author: Zsuzsa Szarvas etnographer, deputy director of the Etnography Museum The exhibition Picking up the Pieces: Fragments of Rural Jewish Culture opened last October in the Museum of Ethnography. Although it was prepared in connection with the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust, the display does not deal directly with the Shoa, rather with the period preceding it. The exhibition covers the most important elements of […]
Queen Elisabeth Exhibition in the Andrássy Palace, Betliar MúzeumCafé 48. author: Beatrix Basics Queen Elisabeth is not so much in the focus of interest in Slovakia since the bond that evoked her cult in Hungary was lacking there. Nevertheless, the Andrássy Mansion in Betliar is an appropriate location to stage an exhibition about her. Its collection contains significant works of art, documents and relics connected to her person. […]
What kind of professional possibilities exist in Hungary today for launching systematic archaeological explorations and satisfactorily concluding them? MúzeumCafé 48. Zsófia Frazon, ethnographer, museologist and senior staff member of the Museum of Ethnography, believes that when a museum steps out of its building and enters the open urban space, it forms an entirely different pattern of social relations. MaDok LABOR was an experiment involving entering the urban arena, forming a non-museum space, cooperation and dialogue-based […]
A unified country from many small principalities The history of Germany’s museum structure MúzeumCafé 48. author: Beatrix Basics Our series about the development of Europe’s museum networks began with Austria (see MúzeumCafé 45). Now we consider museums in a state born less than 150 years ago, although previously in its territory besides minor principalities there were also monarchies and state formations exerting influence on the course of world history. Germany’s museum structure of […]
“In a couple of years foreign antique dealers plundered Transylvania and Moldova” Ferenc Pozsony on ethnographic research in Transylvania and the local folk museum in Zabola MúzeumCafé 47. author: Zoltán Katona As a founder 25 years ago of the Kriza János Ethnographic Society, Ferenc Pozsony was able to rear a new generation of ethnographers at the university in Cluj-Napoca. He has been researching and writing for over 40 years and he was involved in establishing a Sekler folk museum and a Csángó museum in the village […]
From Old Sopron to the Parisienne Art Historian Ferenc Dávid on the Great Period of Monument Protection and How it Works Since Then MúzeumCafé 47. author: Emőke Gréczi In the course of his career Ferenc Dávid left his mark in every corner of the country. The full list could begin with his reconstruction of the historic centre of Sopron, continue with numerous buildings in Castle Hill, the palaces in Gödöllő and Fertőd, synagogues in Apostag, Mád, Sopron and the capital. The two medieval […]
Scientifically, without any nationalistic implications Alexandra Kusá, art historian, director of the Slovak National Gallery MúzeumCafé 47. author: Gyula Barczi, deputy director, Slovak National Museum In a corner of Coronation Hill Square in Bratislava there stands the Esterházy Mansion, an originally Baroque building which was later reconstructed in Eclectic style in 1870. The two wings of the building are connected by a modern extension, which generated much controversy. The extension, designed with out-of-date technology and built with inferior materials, covers […]
Linking 20th and 21st century arts Rome’s National Museum of 21st Century Arts MúzeumCafé 47. author: Gabriella Markgraf (Rome) It will soon be five years since the National Museum of 21st Century Arts (MAXXI) opened in Rome. The fact that a new museum in a new building has been established in the Italian capital is of great significance. Rome is a city where both the locals and the 12 million or so tourists visiting […]
The former Georgi Dimitrov County Arts Centre now a ‘museum quarter’ The Veszprém House of Arts MúzeumCafé 47. author: Emőke Gréczi quarter’ – The Veszprém House of Arts Veszprém is a one of Hungary’s smallest county capitals, which has significant historical and ecclesiastical traditions. Its population increased dramatically in the second third of the last century and after World War II it became a university town. Its dual museum structure comprises a county (today town) museum […]