Róbert Tusán
A man of figures
MúzeumCafé 6.
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 is known by many, having been involved in the financial management of cultural institutions for nearly ten years. His achievements are based on hard work, perseverance and ambition. He comes from the village of Kerepes and finished a secondary economics school. He did not immediately enrol in higher education, but attended a one-year course to become a chartered accountant. During the day he worked as an accountant at Budapest’s János Hospital, while in the evening he studied engineering economics at Szent István University. To finance his studies he worked as an accountant and later a tax consultant. In 2005 he put in his application for the job of financial director at the Hungarian Open Air Museum. There was no serious rival for the post. Yet he had still not finished his studies. He completed two years of tax counselling studies organised by the Hungarian Chamber of Auditing and then enrolled in the specialist economist course at the Budapest Business School. The Szentendre museum has been the beneficiary of significant EU development funds. The unprecedented sum of 2,222 billion forints is being credited to the open-air museum’s account, of which two billion is being paid by the EU and 222 million as own resources is contributed by the Hungarian government.