What is the ethical criteria for a private collection to receive museum status? MúzeumCafé 27. Henrietta Galambos, museum lawyer, member of the presidium of ICOM Hungary – National Committee: ICOM’s Code of Ethics specifies only the minimal professional standards with respect to museums. The preamble notes that while some countries lay down the minimal legal requirements, elsewhere the same guidance is achieved through ‘accreditation’, ‘registration’ or other assessments and quality […]
The horse, after all, was his own William Kentridge on transformation, quarantine and the properties of paper MúzeumCafé 27. author: Eszter Szablyár “We artists can contribute to looking at the past full in the face. This is the key to avoiding mistakes in the future.” So asserts the South African artist of Lithuanian Jewish descent William Kentridge, who uses a variety of objects or simply the tried and tested means of pencil and rubber to help him […]
Interview with Péter Deme, President of the Pulszky Society MúzeumCafé 27. author: Nóra Vágvölgyi The Pulszky Society – Association of Hungarian Museums, is Hungary’s largest (in terms of membership) museum profession NGO. Its president, Péter Deme, regards keeping museums alive and developing, as well as cooperating with the ministry as the organisation’s most important tasks. In Hungary today there are four large organisations which provide professional representation for employees […]
Art historian Gergely Barki on paradigm shift and the international context MúzeumCafé 27. author: Éva Marton Gergely Barki remembers who inspired him most in his childhood. At grammar school he was interested in a great variety of subjects – he flirted with archaeology but finally art history became his favourite and he took the entrance examination for Budapest’s Eötvös Loránd University. At that time he was attracted to the Renaissance period, […]
The greatest museum development for hundred years Baán László government commissioner on the plan of new budapest Museum quarter MúzeumCafé 27. author: Marianna Berényi The last day of September 2011 marked a milestone in the history of Hungarian museums. A government decree issued on that day stipulated that up to 30 September 2013 László Baán would be the government commissioner in charge of developing a museum quarter in Budapest’s 56-ers’ Square, while keeping his present position as head of […]
Good prospects in Vienna’s Schweizergarten MúzeumCafé 27. author: Ernő P. Szabó Vienna’s new museum, 21er Haus, opened in Schweizergarten. As a parody of state ceremonial formalities, the Marcus Geiger tied huge red ribbons around the building, giving it the appearance of an enlarged gift box. Thus a more than 100-year-old dream came true – however surprising it may seem, contemporary art was at last presented with […]
Preserving relics from the past on the two banks of the Danube MúzeumCafé 27. author: Judith Jankó Komárom and Komárno – two towns situated on the banks of the River Danube in two separate countries from an administrative point of view. To distinguish the two parts local residents refer to north and south Komárom, while at the same time frequenting both sides and promoting cross-border cultural relations. Two institutions, the 125-year-old Danube […]
The 200-year vicissitudes of the Hungarian Natural History Museum MúzeumCafé 27. author: Emőke Gréczi While almost the entire museum structure in Hungary is facing transformation MúzeumCafé reports about a public collection which has got used to change, since practically for no time at all throughout its 200-year history has it had a permanent or seemingly permanent home. The core of the collection in the Hungarian Natural History Museum comes […]
Works of art, hungarian collections in gigabites Museums and digitization in Hungary MúzeumCafé 27. author: Marianna Berényi Thirty years ago the international committee for museum documentation, CIDOC, held a meeting in Budapest where it was first raised that Hungarian museums should join the network. Since then there’s not been a great deal of success. Of the 14 million documents currently held in Europeana no more than 9 out of every 1000 are […]
Giorgio Vasari’s Annunciation in the former Enyedi-Zsótér Collection of Szeged MúzeumCafé 27. author: Tamás Szabó, art restorer, teacher, Móra Ferenc Museum From 1896 the painting, regarded as a Florentine work by a disputed master, was one of the 118 items in the Enyedi-Zsótér Collection held in Budapest. It was first recorded in the Szeged Museum’s inventory in 1925 under the title The Immaculate Conception. A set of documentary photographs depicting the interior of the former Enyedi-Zsótér […]