Part of a series of interviews which will focus on a young, ambitious, professional museum expert

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author: Zoltán Lévay

Konstantin Medgyesi (born 1975) graduated from history, communications and sociology at the University of Szeged, where he also received a law degree. Since 1999 he has been working at the Móra Ferenc Museum, first as a historian-museologist, then, since 2004, as press officer. Since July 2007 he has been in charge of the newly established […]

The Skanzen’s miracle

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author: Roland Borsos

Better to join in modernisation than suffer the consequences – managers of the Open-Air Ethnographic Museum acknowledged at the dawn of Hungary’s political changes. Today, specialists from formerly envied European museums come to admire Szentendre’s Skanzen. What is the secret of its success? Interview with general director Miklós Cseri.

Delight … exhibit … astound

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author: Gergely Mézes

Asztrik Várszegi, the Abbot of Pannonhalma, prefers intellectually stimulating exhibitions spanning periods of time, which introduce spiritual values by means of modern technology. The Crusades exhibition in the Vatican Museum provided an astounding experience with its variety and conciseness. In Hungary the Sigismund exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts had a similar effect on […]

A visitor-friendly private museum

Decorated Egg Museum, Zengővárkony

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author: Rózsa Nienhaus

The way this private collection is run as a museum exclusively specialising in decorated eggs, in a building owned by the local authority of a small village, is exemplary. During the May Day of Museums, on 19 May 2007 at the Hungarian National Museum, it received the first prize of “Visitor-friendly Museum”, awarded by Hungarian […]

Bode Museum, Berlin

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author: Péter György

The Bode (until 1956 Kaiser Friedrich) Museum, which reopened on 18 October 2006, has revived a thematic discussion held in Berlin following reunification. This involves a series of decisions relating to the artistic and socio-historical, as well as the urbanistic and political significance of rearranging the collections and reconstructing the buildings. Simultaneously, what has happened […]

Florence – Tokyo – Debrecen. Leonardo reveals his mind

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author: Benedek F. Tóth

The real attraction of the Real da Vinci exhibition in Debrecen is that the new gallery, Modem, has placed its selection ‘Body language’ between the two floors of its Leonardo exhibition. The former presents unique paintings (László feLugossy) and statuettes (Ferenc Medgyessy) from the Antal-Lusztig collection and performances (Balázs Kicsiny). After Florence and Tokyo, this […]

Tracing our Treasures I.

Ecclesiastical collections

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author: Margit Turok, National Office for Heritage Protection

A short summary of the legal position concerning artefacts of a museal character in the possession of the churches and not the state. The majority of Hungarian churches have established their own central or regional collections. There are also ensembles of items brought together from a local historical aspect, due to the special character of […]

Field Service for Cultural Heritage

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author: Gábor Virágos, General Director

At the beginning of 2007 the Ministry of Education and Culture rejuvenated the responsibilities and organisation of heritage protection. Modification of the measure regulating archaeological excavations entered into force on 3 April 2007. With this, archaeological tasks in relation to large investments are now entirely organised by one central institution, an archaeological protection service. Its […]

MaDok, plastic, domino

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author: Zsófia Frazon, Budapest

Zsófia Frazon writes about the four-year work of MaDok-network (Documenting the Present) and the exhibitions introducing 12 contemporary themes entitled Exhibition Domino 2006. The network and series of exhibitions, initiated by the Budapest Museum of Ethnography, will continue in 2008 under the title Domino remix. On 30 November this year, to re-launch the series, an […]

Insects of Naszály

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author: Ottó Merkl, Hungarian Natural History Museum

The special flora and fauna of Naszály Hill indicate that it should be officially protected. Such a move would be legitimised if the known data about the area were as precise as possible. Therefore, in 2008 the Duna-Ipoly National Park is to issue a publication about the flora and fauna of the area. A survey […]