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Ecclesiastical Collections III

Sárospatak Museum of the Calvinist Church west of the River Tisza

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author: Margit Turok, art historian, Works of Art Inspectorate, Cultural Heritage Office

The balanced and calm mass of the one-storey Berna row housing the museum is situated in the courtyard of the Calvinist College. Today a listed building, it represents a style called Protestant College Baroque. A ridge turret rises from the middle of the gabled roof, where the small bell of the Csengettyű row has been […]

A glance into the secrets of archeological restoration

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author: Konstantin Medgyesi, Tornyai János Museum and Public Education Centre

In summer 2007 extensive archeological explorations were conducted on the designated location of a new sports hall to be constructed in the town centre of Hódmezővásárhely. The work, professionally managed by the Tornyai János Museum and Public Education Centre, encompassed a total of 2,500 square metres. A far greater number of finds was unearthed, even […]

Restoration of the fresco with lion in the Esztergom royal castle chapel

MúzeumCafé 3.

author: Mária Prokopp, art historian, Institute of Art History, ELTE BTK

In 2000 the State National Monument Restorers’ Centre requested tenders for the restoration of the medieval and Renaissance frescos in the royal castle of Esztergom. The castle resisted the Mongol attack in 1241, but Ottoman forces occupied it in 1543, following which it was fought over until being liberated in 1683. After the great siege […]

Urbs paludarum – Mosapurc

Zalavár-Vársziget in the Carolingian age

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author: Béla Miklós Szőke, archeologist, Institute of Archeology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

One of the largest sand drift hills formed in the late Ice Age, Zalavár-Vársziget, rises like an island in the Zala river valley. In the second half of the 9th century epoch-forming events occurred here, an area accessible only by wooden roads. At the beginning of the 830s Priwina turned for protection to the region’s […]