The mummy of a 5-year-old boy

STORY

What do we know about a little boy, Zoltán Arányi, whose mummy is owned by the Semmelweis Museum of Medical Science? Here is something we have found out about him in an exhibition of the Museum of Natural...

Europe’s new cultural centre to be built in Budapest’s 200-year-old City Park

LIGET PROJEKT

Two world renowned architect offices ranked first in the international architectural design competition announced for the New National Gallery–Ludwig Museum.

A very serious play at the lake

EXHIBITION

“Counter-pedagogy on the lakeside” is the title of the new exhibition in the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest introducing the visitor into the unique world of a summer camp.

Ervin Baktay, the Indologist Indian

EXHIBITION

A “playful man”: the painter, writer, Indologist, geographer, astrologist, museologist, art historian and Indian. The exhibition on Ervin Baktay is now open in the Ferenc Hopp Museum in Budapest.

Rivers of Mercury and golden temples

CHINA

After enthralling Prague, the Treasures of Ancient China have arrived in Budapest. It is an exhibition comprising objects which are from Chinese collections and not from European ones.

Exploring issues

INTERVIEW

Although the exhibition Art and Artists in the First World War has been closed now, it raised so many fascinating questions that we turned to Enikő Róka, one of the curators, to discuss some of them.

Exhibition? Exhibition!

LINEAMENTS

The Szentendre Skanzen opened its “Lineament – images and stories about the shepherds” exhibition on 5 September 2014. It is part of the thematic year dedicated to the “Sheep”.

Hungarians! Go east!

LECHNER

On the 100th anniversary of Ödön Lechner’s death, the Museum of Applied arts, whose building was designed by Lechner himself, opened an exhibition to commemorate the architect.

Face to face. Pictures from the history of the deported Jewish community in Szombathely

EXHIBITION

Thoughts of the curator on the exhibition.

Those called by their names

MEMORIAL

At Budapest’s Eötvös Lóránd Universtiy a holocaust memorial for former teachers and students has been inaugurated. 200 meters, 198 names, 9454 characters.