Gábor Veress, director of the Dobó István Castle Museum

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author: Péter Jónás

Ethnographer Gábor Veress was appointed director of Eger’s Dobó István Castle Museum in the summer of 2008. Crafts, household and farming utensils and furniture constitute his special field. As an ethnographer, he has also been involved in studying traditional folk legality and the self-regulation of communities.Castles have always interested me and I have been intrigued […]

And let me play…

Gabriella Kesik, Head of Education Department, Hungarian National Museum

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author: Ádám Sztankay

Museum education in Hungary has a short history, being taught at Budapest’s ELTE University for just 8 years. Enrolment is for two years. The majority of lecturers have no formal qualification in the subject, but for decades they have been practising what they teach. The Historical Playhouse of the Hungarian National Museum uses the research […]

Bea Palya, singer

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author: Gergely Mézes

“I’m not a great museum-goer,” Bea Palya immediately asserts on learning I want to speak with her for Museumcafe. She is about to go on holiday by the sea and says she is going through a period when she is interested in ‘nature’ and does not want any cultural experience. Hence it is no surprise […]

Surviving in troubled times Some thoughts from Dr. László Horváth, head of the Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Museums’ Directorate

István Szathmáry

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Historian and county museum director László Horváth was born in the town of Gyöngyös in 1965. Following his secondary schooling there, he graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Budapest’s Eötvös Loránd University, and then he gained a Ph.D. in the history of religion at Debrecen University. His field of research focuses on the Modern […]

100 years of the Police History Museum

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author: Péter Hamvay

The grim building, a mounted police barracks, was constructed in 1888. Although 50 horses and those who groom them are still based here, the building also houses other police units. The Police History Museum with its interrupted past is also located here. Its predecessor, the Museum of Criminology was established in 1908, but the collection […]

The Vasvár Dominicans

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author: Roland Borsos

The Dominican church and monastery have stood in Vasvár for 800 years. The building is a unique symbol of the mendicant order and the guardian of its treasures in Hungary. The church and monastery of the Holy Cross were built around the time of the 13th-century Mongol invasion, allegedly with a donation from King Béla […]

Kaliningrad/Konigsberg Museum of Contemporary Arts

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author: Péter György

As seen from Hungary, it is amazing to witness Russia’s Cultural Ministry establishing a series of National Centres of Contemporary Art. To date, museums, exhibition halls, scientific workshops and experimental laboratories have opened in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Kaliningrad and Samara. The network of these independent institutions, their programmes displaying a high-level orientation […]

Flying museologist writes Hungarian wine history

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author: András István Kovács

Flying winemakers are renown players in the international world of wine – they are the experts who are invited to wineries all over the world so that their brief but substantial advice would help companies create the finest wines. Hungary’s network of wine museums operates in a somewhat similar way since Dr. Zsigmond Csoma of […]

Ancient cemetery in Pécs reveals its secrets

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author: István Zsolt Tóth archeologist

Pécs is among the few former Roman settlements in Hungary which remained important over the ages. The 30 × 100 metre excavation area is situated 30 metres from the eastern wall of the former Roman town, Sopiane, at the southern edge of the medieval town, to the northeast from the Siklós Gate. Sopiane’s late Roman cemetery is […]

In the footsteps of the Buda Castle Tapestry Workshop

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author: Erzsébet Marton

To mark the 60th birthday of Ildikó Dobrányi (1948-2007), a memorial exhibition is being held in the Saint Adalbert building of the Christian Museum, Esztergom. In the 1970s, following Noémi Ferenczy, an energetic generation resurrected Hungarian tapestry. Applying the haut-lisse technique of French Gobelin workshops, Dobrányi and friends recreated a genre and in 1990 established […]

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Gábor Veress, director of the Dobó István Castle Museum

And let me play…

Gabriella Kesik, Head of Education Department, Hungarian National Museum

Bea Palya, singer

Surviving in troubled times Some thoughts from Dr. László Horváth, head of the Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Museums’ Directorate

István Szathmáry

100 years of the Police History Museum

The Vasvár Dominicans

Kaliningrad/Konigsberg Museum of Contemporary Arts

Flying museologist writes Hungarian wine history

Ancient cemetery in Pécs reveals its secrets

In the footsteps of the Buda Castle Tapestry Workshop