The National Centre for Catholic Collections MúzeumCafé 5. author: Margit Turok, art historian Much of Hungary’s national cultural heritage is owned by the Catholic Church. The Church was among the first to regulate the “establishment and preservation of art heritage, and its handling in correspondence with its real value”. Property rights are exercised by dioceses. The episcopacies maintain 14 museums, six run by religious orders and nine belonging […]
Vilmos Aba-Novák Retrospective in the Debrecen MODEM MúzeumCafé 5. author: István Wagner Crowds have been drawn to the Hungarian town of Debrecen since the retrospective of Vilmos Aba-Novák, known as the ‘Barbarian Genius’, opened in the Modern and Contemporary Art Centre. MODEM is the largest and most modern cultural centre in eastern Hungary. Nearly a thousand square metres has been partitioned into smaller units which feature Aba-Novák’s […]
Copper-age well on Road 47 Hódmezővásárhely-Kopáncs MúzeumCafé 5. author: Katalin Tóth, archeologist, Tornyai János Museum, Hódmezővásárhely Commissioned by the Field Service for Cultural Heritage, the Tornyai János Museum and Public Education Centre has conducted archeological explorations connected to the third phase of developing Road 47 into four lanes (the section between the town of Hódmezővásárhely and Algyő Tisza Bridge). A Chalcolithic well, nearly four metres deep, was especially rich in finds, […]
Bükkábrány and dendrochronology MúzeumCafé 5. author: András Grynaeus, dendrochronologist Frequent reference is made to the dendrochronological analyses of the unique Bükkábrány swamp cypresses. Due to systematic silviculture, trees older than 120 years (except for a few protected items) are not found in Hungarian forests. Thus to know about the thickness of annual rings in relation to certain years we can go back only to […]
Hungarian Natural History Museum, department of anthropology collections MúzeumCafé 5. author: Ildikó Pap & Ildikó Szikossy The collection moved to the loft of the Ludovika from Bajza Street in 1999, following reconstruction of the building. By that time it comprised the remains of more than 35,000 individuals, including the mummy finds from Vác. Archive photographic collection The glass negatives depicting the exhumed skulls of King Béla III and his wife, […]
The Reök Palace MúzeumCafé 5. author: Konstantin Medgyesi The Reök is one of Hungary’s most noted Art Nouveau buildings. For nearly a year a state of the art exhibition hall and Regional Arts Centre have functioned here, with ‘visits’ by both Goya and Picasso. The originally residential building was completed in 1907 to the plans of architect Ede Magyar, who had worked in […]
Possibilities and obstacles in Hatvan MúzeumCafé 4. author: Zoltán Lévay “A good small town museum must be present not merely with its collection and exhibitions but must also presume a role in the life of the town as a kind of cultural centre”. So says Júlia Domán, a young museologist at the Hatvany Lajos Museum in Hatvan. However, she also feels that, due to the […]
The soul of machines MúzeumCafé 4. author: Szilvia Zalka To live among machines may seem heartless – but only to those who do not know that machines have souls. István Csippán, collection curator of the National Technical Museum, is fully aware of that. The National Technical Museum is near the Buda end of Lágymányos Bridge. It is not easy to find, but it’s worth […]
To recognise and support value MúzeumCafé 4. author: Katalin Metz This year on Maecenas Day the Summa Artium Award was presented to Pannon GSM Telecommunications Ltd. It was awarded to the company donating most in the cultural field. We asked Emese Majorosi, Press and Information Director of Pannon GSM, what was involved for such a prestigious prize to be presented to her company. In her […]
Invitation from the Paks Gallery MúzeumCafé 4. author: Roland Borsos The poster with the zebra invites you to a disused factory – a Victor Vasarely retrospective has opened in Paks. Although the former canning factory is not such an attractive site, every tenth resident of the town had already been to the Paks Gallery in the first fortnight of the exhibition. “Vasarely entices people,” says […]