A Liveable Past? – Curatorial Guided Tour

A Liveable Past? - Gábor Klaniczay’s curatorial guided tour of the exhibition Past as You Order? Political Time Travel in the Middle Ages: Hungarian and Russian Examples.
The exhibition presents how memory politics of the recent decades have used medieval history in Hungary and Russia. History, historical monuments, historical cults have always been exploited for supporting presentist goals: every new epoch is rewriting history from its own viewpoint, but representatives of modern autocratic states are especially active in this field. Based on a research project on “historical revisionism” this exhibition will present a critical overview of the biases of this political use of the Middle Ages.

The program is in Hungarian.
Admission is free. Members of the public are welcome.