Budapest, June 10 (MTI) – A museum opened in Budapest for Harry Houdini, the famed Hungarian-born illusionist known of his escape acts, on Friday. Located in the Buda Castle, the House of Houdini museum has exhibited Houdini’s personal instruments including…
More than 30,000 people have visited the exhibition entitled Picasso – Transfigurations, 1895-1972 in the Hungarian National Gallery since its opening on April 22, orientpress.hu reports. Over 100 artworks are on display in the gallery, making it the biggest Picasso…
According to webradio.hu, the international jury found the Napur Architect Kft. led consortium’s plan the best by common consent, so the Hungarian architectural company will be the one to design the new building of the Museum of Ethnography at Ötvenhatosok…
From 2016, Budapest is represented by The Museum of Applied Arts in the Réseau Art Nouveau Network (RANN), magyarmuzeumok.hu reports. The network of Art Nouveau cities was founded in 1999, and has more than 20 members from all over Europe,…
The Hungarian Geological Museum was founded in 1868, a year before the Institute, which was supported by the world’s third geological association, the Hungarian Geological Association. The main aim was to analyse the different types of rocks found in Hungary…
Located at the edge of Zalaszántó village, in the Balaton Uplands National Park, discover an unusual “living museum” that offers visitors the opportunity to experience traditional English culture in heart of the Hungarian countryside. Tea is the second most consumed…
Budapest, April 20 (MTI) – A large-scale exhibition showing over 100 works by Pablo Picasso will open in the Hungarian National Gallery on Friday, the museum’s director said on Wednesday. The largest ever Picasso exhibition in Budapest, entitled “Picasso –…
Budapest, February 16 (MTI) – The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest currently has some 3,000 artworks on loan, more than half of which are lent to other museums or collections and the rest are with state bodies or on…
Atlatszo.hu litigated for one and a half year in order to have the Museum of Fine Arts give them the information on where the new Finance Director of TV2, Gabriella Halkó stored the 10 antique paintings borrowed from the museum.…
Budapest (MTI) – Some 120 objects unearthed at the site of the ancient Roman city Pompeii will be exhibited in the Mora Ferenc Museum of Szeged, in southern Hungary, in summer. The 2,000 year-old relics, borrowed mostly from the Archaeology…
Budapest, January 21 (MTI) – The government will issue two new decrees on February 3 detailing the regulations of the new home purchase subsidy programme, the government office chief said at a regular press briefing on Thursday. Also the government…
Budapest, December 17 (MTI) – Hungary’s pavilion for the Milan World Expo is being dismantled and will be transferred to Karcag, in central-eastern Hungary, where it will serve as a museum from 2017 showcasing the country’s equestrian traditions. Geza Szocs,…
Japanese award-winning architectural firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) won the international competition to design the new Budapest National Gallery, which will be built at Petőfi Hall site in the city park (Liget). The new National Gallery will open…
It is one kilometre long and lies under the Buda Castle. In the 1930s it was only supplied by plumbing which exploded in the first weeks of the siege of 1944. It resuscitated for a few days in 1956 and…
Budapest, October 30 (MTI) – The Ludwig Museum will not move into the new National Gallery building planned to be built in the City Park as part of the Liget project, ministry commissioner for the project Laszlo Baan said on…
The autumn festival of museums is organised for the 10th time between the 28th of September and the 15th of November. Visitors can choose from more than 1600 programmes in 150 museums all around the country. The aim of the…
Budapest (MTI) – The ownership of properties housing county libraries and museums has been transferred to cities with a county status from the Hungarian state, Peter Hoppal, state secretary for culture, said on Wednesday. Speaking at an event in the…
A new reception building and a visitors’ centre have been built, and four permanent exhibitions have been constructed in the Rotunda building that hosts the famous Feszty Cyclorama in the Ópusztaszer National Heritage Park, travelo.hu reported. The development that was…
Gróf Széchenyi István said ’The nation’s power relies on the educated people’. Thirteen years ago, the Night of the Museum organizers had wanted to increase the cultural entertainments for the educated people. Education cannot be only restricted to secondary school…
When museums can be visited for free? It is useful to know which days are free. According to minimatine.hu, with free entrance, visitors can only see the permanent exhibitions and only if they accompany a child less than 18-year-old (with…