With the exhibition and programme series object. story. etc., the Hungarian National Museum aims to lay out alternative routes for visitors at its permanent exhibitions, to organize scientific, informative and museum education programmes related to these routes, to document and widely disseminate its results, and to learn and listen to the opinions and viewpoints of its visitors.

In 2018, letters will be the first to invite visitors to walk through the millennia and rethink in how many different ways we may get from A to Z.

L E T T E R S

What has been the role of writing, of visible cultural memory in the Carpathian Basin since prehistoric times to the present day? How many different literacies have their traces preserved in the Museum?

Following the route, we may get from the first engraved bone tools to the tokens of commercial and cultural interactions – coins, jewels, creations of fine and applied arts – to 20th -century “hybrid” objects. 

The objects connected by the route are varied; their material, size, use and history may differ, but the desire of their known or unknown creators for remembrance, recording and transmission is still present in every medium. The fabric of culture once surrounding them has unravelled in the course of history, and we attempt to decipher the message from its mere shreds.

The rereading will start with letters.

You can download the map of the route here

The exhibition can be visited with the ticket of the permanent exhibition.