Marvels, Formulas, Anomalies Museums and Architecture – Bilbao, Berlin and Paris author: Kovács Dániel It is now twenty years since the opening of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Beyond the fact that with its architecturally milestone building and world-standard exhibitions it draws a million visitors annually, the Guggenheim has also played a key role in the emergence of Bilbao as a ‘Mecca of urbanisation’ and is a textbook example of […]
On the Trail of Stamps Forty Years of Regions – Eras – Museums author: Berényi Marianna This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Regions – Eras – Museums (REM) movement, which continues to function successfully with its own website, Facebook page, clubs, excursions and publications. The number of stamp-issuing places involved with the movement continues to grow year by year, and now stands at over 3100. The latest to join […]
Flashes of Burning Questions Pilla – Conversations on Museum Theory author: Varga Benedek It is perhaps curious that while museums are more than 100 years old, museology as a scholarly discipline has a history of barely two decades. Perhaps the most obvious reason is that the difference in qualifications and background of the collections’ keepers and the multiplicity of collections didn’t make it perceptible that numerous strands come […]
From the baths of Brigetio to a ‘Roman Baths Visitor Centre author: Borhy László – Bartus Dávid – Számadó Emese The area by the Danube embankment at Szőny, which is part of Komárom to the north-east of Budapest, although known by archaeologists for a long time and a protected archaeological site, has never received very much attention in the course of research connected with the Roman settlement of Brigetio. One reason for that is its […]
“Among art historians I was a sociologist, among sociologists an art historian” Életútinterjú S. Nagy Katalinnal author: Gréczi Emőke Katalin S. Nagy was open-minded about both manual and intellectual work. She undertook research in psychology and sociological surveys. She curated numerous exhibitions, wrote studies and finally chose teaching as her main career. Thanks to her openness, she was able to be effective as an outsider and to be accepted by hard-to-please professionals. In 1967 […]
In the Country of the Naysayers Beszélgetés Rajk Lászlóval author: Jankó Judit László Rajk is a Kossuth Prize-winning architect, a film production designer and a former member of the opposition who became an MP. He was involved in graphic art and designed covers for samizdat publications. We spoke about how his name was connected with Hungary’s first Holocaust exhibition at the Budapest History Museum in 1994, and […]
Unprotected Heritage Perczel Anna a zsidónegyed átalakulásáról author: Karácsony Ágnes After graduating as an architect in 1967, Anna Perczel worked at the Budapest Urban Planning Institute up to 2002, then in the VÁTI Research and Listed Monuments Office. Since 1996 she has been involved with the architectural treasures of the Jewish quarter in Pest. In 2004 she was one of the founders of the ÓVÁS! […]
The Karski Heritage Three Institutes of Contemporary Polish Political Memory author: Süveges Gréta Jan Karski, a prominent figure in the Polish resistance movement and the post-war examination of the past, died in Washington in 2000. Immediately after the start of World War II he was held as a Soviet prisoner of war, but he managed to escape and join the resistance. He acted as a contact with the […]
Renewal of a retrospective exhibition in Sárospatak author: Sipos Tünde ¶ What happens to items of an oeuvre donated to a public collection in the provinces? At best, they are used to stage an exhibition. At worst, they are shifted from one storeroom to another. Perhaps they feature as part of a permanent exhibition. But what would be the ideal way to make them known […]
A Conceptual Museum – an Eerie Place Jewish Museum, Vienna author: György Péter “Auschwitz werden uns die Deutschen niemals verzeihen!“ According to a post-war “saying” – which can be referred to as ironic only with reservation – the Germans would never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz. “What has remained after Auschwitz is anti-Semitism, because of Auschwitz.”2 It is all rather relevant: let us just think of the not […]