Museums in the country-side 2016: József Koszta Museum, Szentes

Museum: a slow genre

EXHIBITION

A museum is a place where objects, pictures, texts and ideas are ‘included’ in a space and present themselves in apparent immobility. Reception requires patience, openness and curiosity, time and slowing...

New editor-in-chief in charge at MúzeumCafé

INTERVIEW

It has been announced recently that Gábor Martos, the head of the prestigious Hungarian museum journal, MúzeumCafé, is stepping down. Meet the woman who will take the steering wheel for the coming years.

What is at stake?

STATEMENT

The url www.magyarmúzeumok.hu belongs to the Pulszky Society and using the name Magyar Múzeumok Online (MMO) the project, whose website you are reading right now, has primarily been financed by the National...

The Golden Train? Which one?

It sounds like an urban legend but the story of coins of Fertőboz, a tiny village on the border between Austria and Hungary, are true.

What identity does a female ceremonial attire have?

ART

Come along with us to the Budapest Gallery to have a closer look at Mária Chilf's piece in an exciting exhibition called "Imagined Communities, Personal Imaginations".

Visualizing the Nation

CONFERENCE

Visualizing the Nation. Post-Socialist ImagiNations | International conference in English.

“There is no such a thing as a museum photographer”

INTERVIEW

Csanád Szesztay, the photographer of Budapest’s Museum of Fine Arts, shared his ideas on photographing objects, which goes beyond taking photos in a museum.

From the Székely Gate to the Last Towel

EXHIBITION

In terms of its topic it is ambitious, in terms of implementation it is fastidious although its title is far from reflecting all these values. An exhibition in the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest.

Ludwig Goes Pop – The master pieces of pop art in Budapest

EXHIBITION

The new exhibition in the Ludwig Museum features, among many others, the works of Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol and Mimmo Rotella also sheding light on their influence in...

Mummy exhibition - without a mummy

EXHIBITION

The exhibition has a long title: A Monk, a Prelate, a Patriot: Pál Széchényi. The Reearch of the Mummy in Nagycenk, but it is worth seeing how it evokes a wonderful life of a great person with lots of...