temporary
from 2019 Jun. 21. to 2019 Sep. 01.

ROCK/PAPER/FRESCOS

Preserved Art Treasures 2019

The main message of the exhibition featuring the graduation works of the students of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts is the same from year to year. However, due to the the nature of the training the conservators-restorers get, the exhibited items can be very different from each other. The title of this year's exhibition refers to this diversity of materials. And the list can be continued: glass, porcelain, silver, limestone, celluloid, paper pulp, steel, tempera, bone, acrylic paint, coral, silk velvet, wrought iron, fiberboard, walrus tusk and various gemstones… they all can be discovered in our exhibition.

temporary
from 2019 Jan. 15. to 2019 Aug. 20.

The unsung hero: General Görgei

 

Artúr Görgei, born 200 years ago, is remembered above all for the surrender that closed the Revolution and War of Independence of 1848–1849. He was the military commander invested with dictatorial powers who, instead of entering into battle with the army of Tsar Nicholas I, ordered his army to lay down their arms.

temporary
from 2018 Jun. 27. to 2019 Jun. 23.

The Seuso Treasure

The new item on Budapest’s cultural menu you cannot miss!
The Seuso treasure, the most significant silver find  from the period of the later Roman Empire is exhibited in the Hungarian National Museum.

From the 1st century AD the Western part of what is now Hungary belonged to a province named Pannonia of the Roman Empire. The last heyday of Pannonia in 4th century AD was characterized by huge manors and luxurious villas in the countryside. Their owners belonged to the rich elite of the empire. One of them was named Seuso, whose silver tableware is now exhibited  for the public audience by the Hungarian National Museum.

temporary
from 2019 Mar. 08. to 2019 May. 28.

Gold of California

Hungarian „prospectors” in the Wild West

The Wass, Molitor & Co. gold coins of the Hungarian National Museum

temporary
from 2018 Oct. 22. to 2018 Nov. 04.

The emblematic ’56 flag with a hole in the middle

In the summer of 2018 the Hungarian National Museum acquired another unique 1956 relic. Three former freedom fighters have presented the large flag with a hole in the middle that used to fly over Széna square speaking of the revolutionaries’ courage.

temporary
from 2018 Sep. 21. to 2018 Oct. 23.

WORLD PRESS PHOTO EXHIBITION

The World Press Photo exhibition represents a novelty this year, not only because of its new location. As of 2018, the internationally highly regarded exhibition awaits visitors in the Hungarian National Museum, on view this year from September 21-October 23. The museum is open extended hours every Friday and Saturday, 10:00-20:00 o’clock, and on the last day of the exhibition.

temporary
from 2018 Jun. 14. to 2018 Aug. 26.

Crowded Times

A city street, rushing people, fleeting glances – the poster. Information. Opinion. Appeal.

Posters are the message boards of a modern metropolitan society. Their technical potential, based on lithography, which gained ground at the beginning of the 19th century, enabled them to convey their numerous messages to the streets every day.

The exhibition presents what modern Hungarian society living under the spell of never-ending development could encounter on this message board between 1890 and 1989: brand new things, possibilities and emergencies.

temporary
from 2018 Mar. 09. to 2018 Aug. 15.

L E T T E R S

object. story. etc | part I

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.

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

temporary
from 2017 Nov. 30. to 2018 May. 20.

Anna | Fictitious Female Fates from Székelyföld

The current display takes the visitor back to mid 20th century Székelyföld, into a society shaped by strict yet unwritten rules and habits; a society in which a fallen girl had no place left to stay. How might the fate of a young girl forced into marriage have looked like? How did the experiences of a maid differ or overlap with those of a factory worker? Was the people’s power really power? Last but not least, was solitude truly freedom? These are the issues explored in Anna`s fictive thoughts.

For the complete experience please download the GuideNow mobile application and in it the story of Anna. If you have no smartphone you can hire one free of charge in the information desk.

 

 

temporary
from 2017 Nov. 21. to 2018 Feb. 25.

Lightseekers

Enlightened Societies, Literature and Science in Central Europe

The Hungarian National Museum’s temporary exhibition, entitled „Lightseekers. Enlightened Societies, Literature and Science in Central Europe” presents a period of hundred years from 1718, Matthias Bel’s first attempt to advocate the collaboration of the Hungarian scientists to 1825, the establishment of the Hungarian Scholar Society (known today as the Hungarian Academy of Sciences).