How does a pipe get into a mill?

The First Hungarian Art Repository in Tapolca-Diszel

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author: Zoltán Takács

The founders of The First Hungarian Art Repository, Ákos Vörösváry and Dr Kinga Gyökér, turned a disused mill into the exhibition venue of the foundation in order to display the incredibly rich art collection they had compiled. The works of 20th-century and contemporary Hungarian artists from Ákos Vörösváry’s own collection and the estate of painter […]

Júlia Király, Deputy President of the Hungarian National Bank

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author: Gergely Mézes

Júlia Király has loved art since she was a child. It was her father who first took her to a museum, but due to work commitments she has less time to visit museums these days. William Turner is one of her favoured painters and her favourite museum is the Rembrandt House in Amsterdam. “The National […]

Zsuzsanna Kovács, ethnographer at the Göcsej Museum

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author: Benedek F. Tóth and Zoltán Lévay

Why does someone become an ethnographer in the 21st century when virtual reality is gaining ground? “It’s not easy to answer this question because your motivations keep changing,” says Zsuzsanna Kovács. “I studied at the University of Pécs where I received a high level of theoretical training, yet it was only when I was out […]

The ‘alien’ from the East

Lóránd Hegyi, Director of the Saint Etienne Museum of Modern Art

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author: Júlia Váradi

Ever since my early childhood I have been intensively surrounded by art, architecture, music and literature at home. My father, grandfather and nearly all their friends were architects, my mother was a graphic designer, my aunt and uncle were musicologists and the family even included pianists. At first I wanted to become an architect and […]

A visit to the Guild History Museum in Târgu Secuiesc

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author: Tímea Bakk-Dávid

Among its many other items, the museum in Târgu Secuiesc in Romania is noted for its unique collection of 355 dolls in folk costume. The building was designed for the Town Hall in 1857, though the halls are small. The two main exhibitions – about the history of the 1848-49 War of Independence in the […]

The struggle and glory of the Nógrád History Museum

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author: Ádám Sztankay

All in all, 61 visitors paid for full-price entrance tickets to the Nógrád History Museum in Salgótarján last year. In addition a further 4,485 visitors viewed the exhibitions either free or with various discounts. Teachers, students, people with disabilities and those entitled to discounts for other reasons, as well as guests to vernissages represented the […]

Contemporary art in a Venetian customs house

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author: Ernő P. Szabó

On 6 June 2009 Venice’s newest museum opened for the public in Punta della Dogana with the exhibition Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection. Charles Ray’s statue Boy with Frog is a signpost for the new museum. The sculpture has generated controversy from the moment of its unveiling. Some regard the naked […]

So we know … “Mihály Vörösmarty lived here”

Memorial Houses

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author: Péter Hamvay

Who has not been to a memorial house on a school outing? Most of us didn’t get much out of the great person’s bed or copies of his works, and for many the genre seemed to have gone out of fashion. The majority of memorial houses in Hungary have been devoted to great literary personalities. […]

The Apor Codex in good hands in Budapest

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author: Noémi Tóth

The 500-year-old Apor Codex, the fourth oldest Hungarian linguistic record, is being restored in the National Széchényi Library in Budapest. The manuscript has got to Hungary, following certain diplomatic struggles, from the Sekler National Museum in Transylvania. Like a baby, it requires careful cleaning and drying, yet demands more patience and attention. The codex is […]

Coinage in the Hellenistic Period

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author: Melinda Torbágyi, archaeologist, department of coins and medals, Hungarian National Museum

The Hellenistic period was an age of monarchies. The commanders and former associates of Alexander the Great (336-323 B.C.) divided his short-lived empire during long and bloody battles, while creating the foundations of a new age. At the same time the world expanded and the borders of Hellenic culture far exceeded the Mediterranean. The young […]

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How does a pipe get into a mill?

The First Hungarian Art Repository in Tapolca-Diszel

Júlia Király, Deputy President of the Hungarian National Bank

Zsuzsanna Kovács, ethnographer at the Göcsej Museum

The ‘alien’ from the East

Lóránd Hegyi, Director of the Saint Etienne Museum of Modern Art

A visit to the Guild History Museum in Târgu Secuiesc

The struggle and glory of the Nógrád History Museum

Contemporary art in a Venetian customs house

So we know … “Mihály Vörösmarty lived here”

Memorial Houses

The Apor Codex in good hands in Budapest

Coinage in the Hellenistic Period