In Rovereto the oeuvre of Mario Botta in his own museum MúzeumCafé 22. author: Ernő P. Szabó One of the most outstanding figures of contemporary architecture Mario Botta quotes one of his masters, Louis I. Khan on the occasion of a large-scale exhibition presenting his designs of half a century in Mart, Rovereto, later scheduled for the Dürrenmatt Centre in Neuchatel. Botta not only quotes the right person but also at the […]
Cut & paste, copy & paste, or the museum interface Changes at the Szentendre Open Air Museum MúzeumCafé 22. author: Zsófia Frazon, ethnographer and museologist Despite its strong beginnings, before 1989 only one new section, the Small Great Plain, was opened (in 1987) and then the Western Transdanubia part followed in 1993. Further spectacular changes have occurred in the past decade, with four new regions being added, alongside the continuous expansion of another. In addition – and controversially –a broad-gauge […]
Works of art in minority The representation of Hungary’s national and ethnic minorities in museums MúzeumCafé 22. author: Marianna Berényi Who we accept as part of the community and who we regard as integral members of the places where we live is in many respects revealed by the exhibitions found in museums. The displayed objects tell a story – about their periods, their history, their creators, about the people who keep them and even about […]
Hungarian body – Buddhist soul The mystery of India in the paintings of the two Brunners MúzeumCafé 22. author: Anna Heilmann, student of art history It could be difficult to find a spiritual bond and instinctive attraction between too very distant cultures as those of Hungary and India, yet the intellectual tie that can be seen in the lives and works of several Hungarian artists, historians and archaeologists is very strong – Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Aurél Stein, Károly Fábri, Sher-Gil […]
Museum in a school bag Hand in hand, museum and local authorities MúzeumCafé 22. author: Márta Csók, museum education officer, Hungarian Museum of Agriculture Discussions between museums and local authorities about learning and museum education began a long time ago. However, there is little talk about what schools can expect of museum education or how they have been helped by it. In Britain numerous so-called museum education centres already existed decades ago, and they took the museum experience to […]
Our sinking river heritage What future for underwater archaeological sites in Hungary? MúzeumCafé 22. author: János Attila Tóth, archaeologist Winning a support of more than 22 million forints for the period 2009-2011 announced by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) and the Norwegian Fund has been a most important step forward. The Argonaut Project has as its aim the interdisciplinary archaeological mapping of the River Dráva Valley. The overland and underwater archaeological mapping of […]
Imperial portraits bound in leather The Barkóczy album in the library of the Eger diocese MúzeumCafé 22. author: Erzsébet Löffler, director of the Eger Archiepiscopal Collection Thanks to Bishop Károly Eszterházy, a library with 16,000 volumes opened in the Eger Lyceum in 1793. Today there are 160,000 works, including 34 codices, 98 incunabula and many invaluable manuscripts. Among those the so-called Barkóczy album is aesthetically the most precious. Ferenc Barkóczy was born in 1710. He studied in Kassa (today Košice), Nagyszombat […]
The angels of Pius V The original location in the Vatican of Szeged’s Annunciation Galleria Comunale di Arte Contemporanea, arezzo MúzeumCafé 22. author: Tamás Szabó, restorer, lecturer, Móra Ferenc Museum, Szeged To mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of the noted Italian architect and writer Giorgio Vasari, Arezzo is hosting an exhibition entitled Vasari, the painter and engineer between 27 August and 11 December this year. The Móra Ferenc Museum in Szeged is lending its painting The Annunciation, which has been in its collection for […]
In Hungary whose task should it be to establish the authenticity of a work of art and to verify that responsibly? MúzeumCafé 22. Péter Buzinkay, Art historian, head of the artworks inspectorate at the National Office of Cultural Heritage: What is the purpose? Artwork classification, namely establishing the time and place of origin of cultural items and their professional recording, as well as determining their cultural (and in certain circumstances financial) value, is part of the everyday work […]
Szentendre’s museum paradigm – little or more than enough? Directorate of pest county museums MúzeumCafé 22. author: Emőke Gréczi For decades the weekend of an average family living in Budapest has involved visiting the Margit Kovács Museum in Szentendre. While Kovács was only linked to the town with her museum, she became the emblem of art in relation to Szentendre and thousands of works were acquired by the museum directorate of Pest County so […]