The ‘archaeological Bone Brigade’

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author: László Bartosiewicz and István Kováts

Archaeozoology specialists have been meeting twice a year since 2001 in Visegrád (Hungary) at a workshop hosted by the King Matthias Museum. Archaeozoology is the study of the several thousands years of interaction between humans and animals. In Hungary no degree exists in this discipline, experts join the workshop from many professions. They include agricultural […]

Visitor friendly experiment by the Petőfi Museum of Literature

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author: Judit Szilágyi Petőfi Museum of Literature

The exhibition was created in an Ikarus-260 coach and since June has been driven around the country. In 2008 the Museum is organising nearly a hundred functions supported by the Hungarian National Cultural Fund in connection with the literary journal Nyugat to mark the centenary of its launch. The Literature Museum regularly organises travelling exhibitions, […]

Aerial Archaeology

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author: Zsuzsa Miklós, archaeologist, Institute of Archaeology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

The first aerial photographs for archeological purposes (for example of Stonehenge) were taken from balloons between 1900 and 1910. In Hungary the beginning of this research method, which commenced after World War I, is connected with the name of cartographer and army officer Sándor Neogrády. While taking cartographic pictures Neogrády turned his attention to some […]

Are the Rudabánya finds sensational?

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Prof. László Kordos, Geologist, director of the Geological Institute of Hungary Recent excavations in Rudabánya have revealed new hominoid remains from the carbonic-clay deposits of former swamps, which preserve the fauna of ten million years ago, namely the entire top and bottom jaws of two specimens belonging to Anapithecus hernyaki. A turning point occurred in […]

A symbolist vision

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author: Ernő P. Szabó

For the first time in Hungary the Museum of Fine Arts is hosting a large-scale exhibition of paintings by the Swiss Symbolist artist, Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918). Hodler’s exhibition is part of a series introducing great European artists initiated by the museum. MúzeumCafé spoke to Dr. Katharina Schmidt, who was assisted by Péter Újvári on behalf […]

Hungarian archaeologists in Sudan

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author: Benedek F. Tóth

Following a request from the Sudanese government, in 2004 Hungarian archeologists joined specialist British, American, German and Polish colleagues in an international salvage operation underway in Sudan, where a huge dam for hydro-electric power generation was being planned on the River Nile for Lower Nubia. Their finds are being restored in Hungary, but the artefacts […]

From a glass cabinet to the catwalk

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author: Zoltán Lévay

Many theatre goers have not yet discovered the Hungarian Theatre History Museum and Institute and the Bajor Gizi Actors’ Museum connected to it, but in recent years an increasing number of visitors are learning about the institution and the items displayed there. Thanks to Viktória Kulcsár, who handles public relations, crowds of people have been […]

The stations of poetry

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author: Olivér Czövek

About one year ago poetry was all over the place in the town of Pécs, particularly at bus stops, when the Centre for Arts and Literature held ‘PoemStop’ events with the support of the local water authority during the Pécs National Theatre Festival. The campaign simultaneously promoting water and poetry was awarded Summa Artium’s project […]

Róbert Tusán

A man of figures

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author: Péter Hamvay

Róbert Tusán, financial director of the Szentendre Open-Air Museum, proclaims that those who do not plan boldly are not developing and that the museum profession has never faced such management and organisational tasks as exist today. Needless to say, planning requires a very di≠erent way of thinking about resolving problems from traditional reflexes. Róbert Tusán […]

The world’s picture books

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author: Gergely Mézes

Róbert Alföldi, the director of the Hungarian National Theatre, spends a lot of time among paintings. His commitment to painting is reflected by the works of contemporary artists exhibited in the theatre’s foyer. He has involved his favourite painters, whose creations also decorate his home. As a child he was rather attracted to old objects. […]