Back to the Sources – the Founders and the Founded Moderated by Marianna Berényi and Zsolt Sári Open-air museums are not only interesting elements of Hungarian museology, they are also extremely popular with the public. In 2015 the Hungarian Open-Air Museum in Szentendre, the open-air museum in Szenna, the Sóstó, Göcsej and Vas village museums and the National Heritage Park in Ópusztaszer attracted close to half a million visitors. The various collections […]
The French Model – Eco-museums author: Edouard de Laubrie In comparison with most European countries, the idea of collecting and presenting provincial dwellings of different regions in one location is not very popular in France. It contrasts, for example, with Scandinavian countries, Great Britain, Holland, Germany, Romania and Hungary. This is so despite the fact that Georges Henri Rivière, the founder of the Musée […]
“It’s like panning for gold.” Conversation with photography historian Klára Fogarasi about photos in best rooms author: Karácsony Ágnes For decades Klára Fogarasi has been studying photographs depicting peasant culture. Her volume In the Village of the Old World appeared 20 years ago, since when it has been impossible to find. For more than two decades she headed the Museum of Ethnography’s Photographic Archive Collection, and she still regularly goes to the museum. MúzeumCafé […]
“I wasn’t prepared for this, nor did anyone prepare me.” Conversation with, Friderika Biró ethnographer, one of the founders of the Hungarian Open-Air Museum author: Gréczi Emőke One huge research subject has essentially defined Friderika Biró’s career from university to today, namely developing the Western Transdanubia regional unit. Alongside her work as a museologist, she has also conducted much scholarly research. We spoke about the secrets of her career, which can be regarded as accomplished. Friderika Biró was born in Budapest in […]
Who could have been the “Polish fighter with a broken sword in the Hungarian War of Independence”? author: Basics Beatrix An iconic image of Hungary’s 1848-49 War of Independence is a work of graphic art which was written about in the volume published jointly by György Rózsa and György Spiró in 1973: “It is the allegory of crushing defeat – the Polish fighter with a broken sword in the Hungarian War of Independence”. In his […]
Intercultural Dialogue in Open-Air Museums Open-Air Museums and their Social Roles author: Sári Zsolt New museology, which had been developing from the 1970s, became critical museology in the early years of the 21st century. Nina Simon’s 2010 work, however, already spoke about the participatory museum. By today it has been proved that a museum cannot be an institute simply based on reputation and asseveration. We have to look for […]
An Exhibition and its Background Treasures Beneath the City – Something New from the Past, a temporary exhibition at the Budapest History Museum’s Castle Museum author: Zsidi Paula Ten years, more than 2000 archaeologically monitored construction projects, about 150 excavation sites and exactly 1259 exhibited objects – in numbers this is the essence of the temporary exhibition about the archaeological activity of the Budapest History Museum. However, the exhibition involves more than logically arranged, beautiful objects. The ancient settlements in the present territory […]
Topology and typology The morphological approach in research concerning Hungarian peasant dwellings author: Kavecsánszki Máté One of the most striking bearers of the culture of a given people, region or landscape is represented by built heritage. At the end of the 19th century ethnographers devoted increasing attention to examining the traditional (vernacular) architecture of the Carpathian Basin. This interest, which appeared at the same time as in western Europe, is […]
The former Szeben Collection Paintings by Italian Artists author: Juhász Sándor Dezső Szeben, one of several children in a Jewish family, was born in 1895. After studying at the Budapest Lutheran Grammar School, in 1913 he registered at the Legal and Political Science Department of the Hungarian Royal University of Humanities and Sciences. In 1920, now a director of the Central Credit Bank, he married Erzsi […]
Archaeological Sites and Museums Archaeological Parks author: Kovács Loránd Olivér First, one issue has to be clarified –what is an archaeological site in Hungary? Strictly speaking , the matter is defined by law, but in everyday language, everything pre-dating 1711 which is a product of human endeavour and which is below ground, together with its environment remaining in an original condition. There are many archaeological […]
