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).

temporary
from 2017 Nov. 23. to 2017 Dec. 28.

16th Century Genius Matrakçı Nasuh

The “16th Century Genius Matrakçı Nasuh” exhibition, designed by İKASD İstanbul Intercultural Art Dialogues Association under the aegis of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey, is being offered to the art-lovers in Budapest during November 23/December 28, 2017, as its tenth and final stop where Suleiman the Magnificent passed away, following Sarajevo, Belgrade, 2015 G20 Antalya summit, Istanbul, Wien, Tokyo, Paris Rome and Washington DC.

temporary
from 2017 Apr. 27. to 2017 Nov. 05.

GRAMMAR AND GRACE

500 years of Reformation

The era of Reformation reshaping Europe began with Luther entering the scene. Values raised by the Reformation belong to Christianism, while heritage of Christianism is universal to the whole mankind: the process that began half thousand years ago still has its effects on our lives.

temporary
from 2017 Apr. 27. to 2017 Nov. 05.

Protestant ways of life in the 20th century

Faces, sentences, stories in photos, documentaries and texts

GRAMMAR AND GRACE – 500 years of Reformation, a large-scale exhibition by the Hungarian National Museum takes its visitors to a connecting exhibition of short films and photos to learn about fateful events of the 20th century and to understand their effects on the Protestant churches and their followers.
These short films were shot in the last couple of years. While watching them we can follow and understand the fates of some famous institutions, families and individuals from not only Hungary but the whole Carpathian Basin.

The exhibition can be visited with the ticket of Grammar and Grace - 500 years of Refomation

temporary
from 2017 Sep. 19. to 2017 Oct. 31.

Cross-in-Fire

Christian Persecution in the Middle-East |

The aim of the exhibition is to draw attention to the processes taking place in the Middle East, to point out the unsustainability of the situation, to explain the causes and to outline the consequences - each on a scientific basis.