The Hungarian National Museum is organising an exhibition of photographs of the cultural and artistic treasures of the territories that were torn away in 1920 to mark the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Trianon Peace Treaty. Due to the epidemic, the exhibition on the fence of the museum, which also symbolises national unity, will only take place in the autumn.

The Hungarian National Museum considers it important to express our solidarity with the Hungarian communities living beyond our borders and to show the values of our common life on the anniversary day.

Therefore, we present part of our exhibition in the form of a virtual photo gallery.

The VIRTUAL PHOTOGALLERYwill show the unbroken talent and creative spirit of the Hungarian people, it raises awareness of the need to preserve the spiritual unity of the Hungarian people and to pass on the living cultural heritage of the community. 

On the 100th anniversary of Trianon, we recall that the future of the region lies in unity, and that the cultural heritage of the Carpathian Basin is the indivisible common property of all the peoples living here.

The SECULAR YEAR OF CULTURE VIRTUAL PHOTOGALLERY will be open for six weeks, with weekly updates from 4 June 2020 to 9 July 2020.

The WIDE AREA OF VIRTUAL PHOTOGALLERY will be opened by Benedek Varga, Director General of the Hungarian National Museum on 4 June 2020 at 16.30. At the opening, János Arany's poem Rendületlenül was recited by Armand Kautzky. 
 

1. GALÉRIA

In Part 1 of our six-part exhibition, which will run for six weeks and will be updated weekly, you will learn how the Nagymarton and Kanizsa families appeared in Burgenland during the Mixed Kingdoms, while the Nádasdy, Erdődy and Batthyány families appeared at the end of the Middle Ages.

You can also visit the castles of Lánzsér and Léka. In the south, visit Lendva, the cultural centre of the region. You can see families dressed in Szekler and Saxon costumes on postcards, as for centuries Transylvanian society was defined by the coexistence of three legal nations, the Hungarians, the Szeklers and the Saxons. The most important cultural centres of medieval Hungary were ecclesiastical institutions. There are many early ecclesiastical institutions in the Felvidék region with outstanding cultural missions, such as the monastery of Garamszentbenedek, the Premonastic monastery of Leleszi, the village church of Zobordarázsi, and the church of St. James in Csallóközcsütörtök. In Transcarpathia, visitors will be greeted by the eye-catching sight of the Vereckei Pass.

Ferenc Rákóczi II wrote of the castle of Mukachevo: "For Mukachevo is built on a rock, which is covered with little earth, and this rocky hill rises from the rocky plain, so that there is no high ground for a good mile around it..."

2. GALÉRIA

In the second part of the virtual photo gallery series, you can read about the work of the Batthyány family over the centuries, about János Hunyadi and his son Mátyás, or about the Counts of Szapolya, the Counts of Spiš.

They can also visit Szalóňa, Körmöcbánya, Selmecbánya, Kolozsvár, Zombor and Ungvár, among other places.

3. GALÉRIA

In Part 3 of the virtual photo gallery series, you can read about the Dominican monastery in Szentmárton, which was founded in 1638 thanks to a generous donation from Count György György Erdődy, admire the typical gable decorations of the Highland Renaissance architecture on the gables of the Thököly Castle in késmárk or the castle in Nagyőr, and see the rotunda in Gerény, built in the 13th century.

The image of the ruined castle of Huszt evokes the still relevant thoughts of Ferenc Kölcsey's poem.

Silver plates with the portrait of Prince Bethlen Gábor are a reminder of the heyday of the Principality of Transylvania, while the Árpád-era church of Bántornya draws attention to the richness of the architecture of the southern region.

4. GALÉRIA

In part 4 of the virtual photo gallery series, you can read about the Esterházy family, who played a decisive role in Hungarian history, or about the protagonist of the film The English Patient, László Almásy, born in Borásyánkő, the son of the Hungarian Emperor László II. Ferenc Rákóczi, Prince of Transylvania, and Gábor Baross, during whose ministership Rijeka became one of the most important ports on the Adriatic coast.
You can visit the Parliament building in Bratislava or the St. Martin's Cathedral, where Hungarian kings and queens were crowned.
The castle of the Perényi family in Nagyszőlő and the Reformed Church in Szaloka are still an eye-catching sight.
The image of the Church of the Cross of Csíksomlyó and the statue of Mary invites the onlooker to attend the famous Pentecostal feast at least once.

5th GALÉRIA

In part 5 of the virtual photo gallery series, you can read about István Beythe, who played a decisive role in the spread of the Reformation in Western Hungary, and Farkas Kempelen, who designed the chess machine and the talking machine as a brilliant engineer-inventor of the 18th century. You can read about Balázs Orbán, who mapped and described the archaeological, historical, geographical, ethnographic and cultural features of the region in his six-volume work entitled Description of Szeklerland.
You can also visit Visk, where György Rákóczi II held his Diet in 1657, the Reformed church in Upper Ora, the Lutheran school centre in Felsőlövő, the Church of Our Lady of Happiness and the Church of the Farewell of Gardena, Arad, or Selmecbánya, where Queen Maria Theresa founded a mining academy in 1735.
You can also visit the statues of Ernő Kiss in Nagybecskerek, József Schweidel in Zombor and the castle of the Christmas family in Beodra.

6th GALÉRIA

Part 6 of the vitrural photo gallery series abounds with mentions of the works of our musical and literary greats, Ferenc Liszt, Mór Jókai, Imre Madách, Kálmán Mikszáth, Sándor Márai, János Arany, Elek Benedek, Áron Tamási, Géza Csáth, Dezső Kosztolányi, all of whom are a source of national pride.
In addition, you can also admire paintings by Pál Szinyei Merse, Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka, Baron László Mednyánszky, and a work by Béla Iványi-Grünwald, one of the artists of the Nagybánya Artists' Colony.
The town of Rust was one of the centres of vine and wine production in Burgenland, and you can read about the pioneers of Hungarian industry and economy, such as the hydraulic engineer József Beszédes and the initiator of champagne production, József Törley. You can also see a new selection of church architecture in Hungary.
Visits to the wine cellars of Feketeváros, the Vereckei Pass, Berehovo, Subotica and Óbecsé.