How much will the extension of the Museum of Fine Arts change the well-known view of Heroes’ Square?

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Mihály Ráday, art historian, Founder of the Budapest Urban Protection Association: The square’s image was formed only with the 1938 Eucharistic Congress. Previously it was a park with a fountain. The City Park used to be wider, at the side and to the rear of the Kunsthalle. Much of that disappeared with concreting alongside Aréna […]

The difficult but necessary extension of the Museo del Prado to the design of Rafael Moneo

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author: Luis Galán García, architect

During the time of its implementation major disputes surrounded the design of Rafael Moneo, who was in charge of the Prado’s extension. However, following completion his ideas were finally acknowledged, since during the reconstruction he brilliantly resolved problems in such a way that he respected throughout both the Villanueva building itself and its environment. Building […]

Museums beyond the glass pyramid

Star architects modernise classic exhibition spaces matching 21st-century demands

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author: Eszter Szablyár

The Guggenheim and Hermitage in Las Vegas, refashioned by Rem Kolhaas produced a loss. The works were squeezed out from the large hall by performances of The Phantom of the Opera. Profound silence and solitude mostly characterised those medieval spaces regarded as the predecessors of today’s museums. The treasures created by both nature and humans, […]

Attila Pőcze, owner of Vintage Gallery

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author: Erzsébet Eszéki

Attila Pőcze has managed Vintage Gallery in Magyar Street, Budapest, for 13 years. It could be simply called a photographic gallery but it would not be true. In addition to photos, works inspired by photographs are in focus; artists represented by the gallery include Balázs Beöthy, Gábor Gerhes, Tibor Gyenis and Dezső Szabó. In November […]

Concert in the Museum of Fine Arts

Gavriel Lipkind, cellist

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author: Eszter Szablyár

If a so-called child prodigy suffers because he is never close to a toy, cannot kick a ball and has no childhood, I don’t fit the category. But so as not to be accused of false modesty, I’d say I was an absolutely everyday, happy child prodigy with my own prodigy parents. When I announced […]

Colonel Attila Bonhardt, director of the Military History Archives

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author: Ádám Sztankay

Attila Bonhardt got a taste of the ‘genre’ as a boy. The future archivist was first inspired by Géza Gárdonyi’s novel The Stars of Eger. This was followed by other books about history. His father worked as an engineer at the Csepel Iron and Metal Works, his mother was an accountant with the Oil and […]

Imre Kaján, President of the museum section of the Hungarian Cultural Fund

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author: Viktória V. Nagy

When the time to appoint a new president came last autumn, the head of the HCF, László Harsányi, called me and said he would recommend that I stay in charge of the section for another year. We found it very important that everything the museums hold would be presented to as large an audience as […]

Do not forget: I’ll go round the world

Dénes Balázs, founder of the Hungarian Museum of Geography

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author: Gellért Rajcsányi

Historical Hungary was bordered by the Carpathian mountains and is still today a country with no sea. Perhaps that’s why many significant personalities turned to the past rather than to the unknown, outside world. Nevertheless, the country has still produced great travellers. The line is long, stretching from the Transylvanian Sándor Kőrösi Csoma through Sámuel […]

Those who sit on chairs in the corners

Foreigners not quite satisfied with Hungarian museum attendants

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author: Péter Hamvay

It is rarely appreciated that museum visitors make contact mostly with museum attendants. With the support of a project involving a 1.3 million forint budget from the EU programme MAP for ID, the Museum of Fine Arts recently held a comprehensive four-day course for 100 museum attendants. The course included museum walks, English lessons and […]

A couple’s life-work

The Sárközy Museum in Nagybajom

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author: Gellért Rajcsányi

The István Sárközy Local History Museum in Nagybajom is housed in the former Sárközy Mansion, a yellow human-scale construct built in three periods over the 18th and 19th centuries. A kind elderly couple receive us: the museum’s founders József Varga-Deák and his wife Györgyi (Katinka Sárközy’s daughter). István Sárközy was born 250 years ago in […]

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How much will the extension of the Museum of Fine Arts change the well-known view of Heroes’ Square?

The difficult but necessary extension of the Museo del Prado to the design of Rafael Moneo

Museums beyond the glass pyramid

Star architects modernise classic exhibition spaces matching 21st-century demands

Attila Pőcze, owner of Vintage Gallery

Concert in the Museum of Fine Arts

Gavriel Lipkind, cellist

Colonel Attila Bonhardt, director of the Military History Archives

Imre Kaján, President of the museum section of the Hungarian Cultural Fund

Do not forget: I’ll go round the world

Dénes Balázs, founder of the Hungarian Museum of Geography

Those who sit on chairs in the corners

Foreigners not quite satisfied with Hungarian museum attendants

A couple’s life-work

The Sárközy Museum in Nagybajom