Construction of a new building to house the collections of Budapest’s Museum of Ethnography will start in the City Park as part of the Liget Project in the second half of this year, the project’s ministerial commissioner told parliament’s cultural…
Pestbuda.hu reported that by the end of 2017 the renovation of the Museum of Fine Arts could be ready. The works of art can be seen again in the autumn of 2018, when the renovated building will be reopened. The…
On the 17th of November 2016, the Hungarian Cultural Counselor to Egypt, Renáta Kovács, and the Director of the Hungarian Ethnographic Museum, Lajos Kemecsi, paid a visit to the Egyptian Agricultural Museum. Kovács and Kemecsi were welcomed by the Director…
Kazakh National Hero Kejki batir’s skull was brought to the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest for the purpose of scientific investigation and for facial reconstruction. Hungarian experts will perform genetic sampling on the remains and make an accurate three-dimensional…
The list of the most popular Hungarian museums by TripAdvisor came out with some interesting results, origo.hu reports. The top 10 list is dominated by a perhaps less known museum which nevertheless overtook the likes of the Hungarian National Museum…
Budapest (MTI) – Over 200,000 people visited an exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s works, which closed on August 28 at the Hungarian National Gallery, the museum told MTI on Friday. The four-month display, co-organised by the Musee National Picasso in Paris,…
Budapest, August 5 (MTI) – Hungary’s largest ever Picasso exhibition has so far attracted more than 150,000 visitors since its opening in the Budapest National Gallery in April, the museum said on Friday. Entitled “Picasso – Transfigurations, 1895-1972”, the exhibition…
Szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu recommends an interesting programme: the Castle Park in Dinnyés introduces the castles of Hungary and, uniquely, the models were made of the same material as the original ones they represent. The historically and traditionally significant Castle Park in Dinnyés…
Budapest, July 7 (MTI) – The government has made several decisions concerning development projects in Budapest, government office chief János Lázár told his regular weekly press conference on Thursday. Hungary refuses to enter into any compromise that would hamper the country’s…
Budapest, July 7 (MTI) – An amount of 25 billion forints (EUR 78m) has been earmarked in state funding for the upgrade, expansion and professional development of the Museum of Applied Arts, a Budapest landmark building, over the next three…
Szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu writes that the Night of Museums this Saturday is an event to enchant visitors, among others, by introducing the National Museum’s everyday and historical heroes, light paintings, the dance school of the ‘50s, and lots of music. Aside the…