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author: Zoltán Lévay

As the director of the Hundertwasser exhibition in Budapest, Kata Bodor has been in the news. According to this young art historian of the Museum of Fine Arts, what makes an exhibition positive is that the public understands its message, and the contents of a museum become alive if besides exhibiting, collecting – including contemporary […]

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author: Roland Borsos

A cheering crowd bids farewell to the Pest-Vác railway line’s first Belgian manufactured Cockerill steam engines. The reality of 1846 in miniature – a plethora of points and signals along the tracks, and as far as the eye can see railwaymen are waiving by stations everywhere. This is the largest railway history display in central […]

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author: Ágota Kasper, Museum director

Since its establishment in 1972, Hungary’s first and so far only natural history museum in the provinces, the Bakony Natural History Museum in Zirc, has been exploring the natural treasures of the Bakony Hills, which spread for more than 4000 square kilometres. The museum has texts, taking into account both professional and educational aspects, in […]

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author: Péter György

The Imperial War Museum North surveys the nature of war from 1900 to the present and includes every development regarded relevant from the perspective of the British Commonwealth. The experience of war, like every thematic element, permeates each of the chronological units. Thus the totality of all war experience becomes a personal one – the […]

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MúzeumCafé 2.

author: Gábor Martos

Two hundred paintings, a hundred drawings and engravings, and nearly as many works of arts and crafts. Enormous canvases, tiny sketches, colourful tapestries, posters with decorative scrolls and fine book illustrations. Classic altars, academic style portraits, realistic peasant genre paintings, as well as works representing Art Nouveau developing towards Symbolism and later flirting with Expressionism […]

Celebration at the zoological department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum

MúzeumCafé 2.

author: Tamás Vásárhelyi, Hungarian Natural History Museum

Mihály Csiby, insect illustrator is 85. In conjunction with the staff of the Natural History Museum’s Zoological Department, Mihály Csiby worked for four decades on the collection of the museum, as well as with creatures and themes found in nature. His name as a scientific insect illustrator ranks among the greatest of the genre. Before […]

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Ecclesiastical collections

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

The National Lutheran Collection is struggling with financial difficulties. It has little opportunity to buy works of art and is primarily applying for grants to restore the items in its collection. An alarm system has recently been installed, after some valuable objects were stolen from the exhibition. Two art historians and one ecclesiastical specialist are […]

Saint Elisabeth jubilee year in Sárospatak

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author: Katalin Vámosi museologist, Rákóczi Museum - HNM, Sárospatak

The past year has seen celebrations marking the 800th anniversary of the birth of Saint Elisabeth of the House of Árpád. The Hungarian Catholic Episcopacy declared the period from 19 November 2006 to 19 November 2007 the Year of Saint Elisabeth. High mass celebrated by the Hungarian bishops of the Carpathian Basin led by Cardinal […]

Cella Septichora

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author: Olivér Gábor, archeologist, Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs

Since 31 March 2007 the exhibition venue displaying eight burial vaults has been open to the general public. At last a part of the World Heritage in Pécs has a fitting, accessible and protected location. So far 45,000 visitors have been pleased to see it, not to mention the pride of local residents. The establishment […]

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author: Katalin Magyar

I like going to exhibitions. In the past this could only have been a statement of desire, expressing the wish simply to move around freely, particularly in the world of museums and galleries. I use a wheelchair and, predictably, for most of my life I was excluded from these locations of culture, as from elsewhere. […]

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Celebration at the zoological department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum

Tracing our treasures II.

Ecclesiastical collections

Saint Elisabeth jubilee year in Sárospatak

Cella Septichora

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