The special world of Baroque theatres Temporary Exhibition in the Vienna Theatermuseum author: Papházi János Among Vienna’s museums the Theatermuseum is not so well known. Standing in Lobkowitz Square, close to the Albertina, the museum opened in October 1991. Its special collection is housed in the former Lobkowitz Palace. To mark its 25th anniversary, last March saw the opening of Spettacolo barocco! Triumph des Theaters, a temporary exhibition about Baroque […]
Museum in the ‘disjointed Tower’ Arany Bicentenary in Salonta author: Jankó Judit 2017 will mark the bicentenary of János Arany’s birth. The Hungarian parliament has declared it a ‘János Arany Memorial Year’. Throughout the year events will be held in the poet’s birthplace of Nagyszalonta (today Salonta in Romania). Other locations will also see celebrations hosted by, for example, the Szigligeti Theatre in Oradea, the Hungarian Academy […]
Mistress of the rákoshegy House author: Basics Beatrix Érseklél, which today no longer exists, was located 22 kilometres from Komárom. In 1879 Regina Ehrental was born there, the youngest, seventh child of a poor Jewish family. She studied in Győr and Budapest. Her early poetry was published when she was in Győr. Following her brother, she moved to Pest, where initially she […]
Is it possible at all? The Imaginary Archive of Avant-garde author: K. Horváth Zsolt If the concept of cultural heritage means the sum total of achievements, individuals and intellectual, cultural phenomena deemed valuable for a given community, then the historic avant-garde in Hungary can surely be a part of that. If the practice of museumisation involves conservation of the past, processed and interpreted through objects and documents, then this […]
Virtue from absence A Monographic Exhibition Constructed without Material Legacy author: Hegyi Katalin We were not in an easy position when we had the idea of staging an exhibition deserving of Sándor Weöres’s poetry to mark the centenary of his birth. The estate of Sándor Weöres and his wife Amy Károlyi was left to Alice Károlyi, who organised and supported financially and intellectually the foundation of the Sándor […]
I am slowly going home The Regeneration of Hungarian Memorial Houses author: Gulyás Gabriella - H. Bagó Ilona For centuries literary memorial houses in Europe have been hallowed places for the homage and commemoration of writers, pilgrimage destinations and important institutes of cultural memory. Today they are part of heritage tourism, an entire branch of industry and a network developing cultural tourism. The history of their establishment, the variety of their circumstances and […]
Establishing literary memorial houses author: Berényi Marianna When a village or a town opens or inaugurates a memorial house, room or plaque it not only presents the birthplace, holiday home or last residence of a noted person, but also itself, its own existence. With the gesture, it gets on the culture map, has a physical share of the literary, artistic canon […]
The Russian Way In the Footsteps of Bulgakov in Moscow and Kiev author: Basics Beatrix The first public Bulgakov Museum was established in March 2007 by the Moscow City Council in flat 50 at 10 Bolshaya Sadovaya Street. The writer’s first Moscow residence was in this building and the institute considers itself to be the first and only Bulgakov memorial museum in Moscow. In autumn 1921 Bulgakov moved into […]
“Missed apology” Ádám Galambos, Lutheran theology student, curator of the Imre Ámos and 20th-century contemporary arts exhibition series MúzeumCafé 36. author: Éva Marton To mark the 105th anniversary of the birth of Imre Ámos a travelling exhibition has been organised under the auspices of the Round-table Discussions Cultural Foundation. In addition to displaying works by Ámos, contemporary artists, writers, composers and musicians reflect with their own works on his life, his oeuvre and the Holocaust, which is directly […]
Delighted by diversity Ida Kovács, head of the Petőfi Museum of Literature’s arts collection MúzeumCafé 36. author: Judit Jankó Apart from their works, recent exhibitions organised by the Petőfi Museum of Literature (PML) have highlighted writers’ education and personalities, and in fact everything that came to their minds which can be read about in their works. Ida Kovács is centrally involved in the team creating these exhibitions. MúzeumCafé put her on the spot when […]