The purpose of our series object. story. etc. launched in 2018, is to lay out alternative routes for visitors at the permanent exhibitions of the Hungarian National Museum, to organize scientific, informative and museum education programmes related to these routes, and to record and spread widely their results in order to offer our visitors the opportunity to think together.

After letters: objectified memories of leaving traces, we continue the series in 2019 with looking for bonds from the New Stone Age to the 18th century. Our route opening now invites the visitors to join us reflecting on how individuals were organized into communities along the millennia. What were the similarities binding the members of smaller-larger communities? What were the differences separating them? What do objects tell us about the diversity of human relationships, and in how many ways can they be connected from a current point of view?

Curator: Éva Fisli

Contributors: AnnamáriaBárány, Zsuzsanna Hajnal, András Jáky, Etele Kiss, Erika Kiss, Csilla Kollár, Zsolt Mráv, Hargita Oravecz, Zsuzsa Pető, Anna Ridovics, Rita Soós, Eszter Suba, László Szende, Gábor Tomka, Melinda Torbágyi, Ágnes Vári

Special thanks to Ágnes Kustár, Hungarian National History Museum, Department of Anthropology

You can download the map of the route here: