Night of the Museums 2021
Public Collections in Hungary Today
On the Night of the Museums, the Blinken OSA, together with Partizán, will address the night of the museums: the current conditions of public collections in Hungary.
Can we talk about endangered public collections in Hungary? On June 26, in a temporary studio set up in the Blinken OSA, the YouTube Channel Partizán will welcome public collection workers and experts to talk about the current condition of museums, archives, and libraries in Hungary. During the past decade, the Blinken OSA has become a safe haven for endangered collections. Visitors to the Archives can attend house tours focusing on the endangered collections preserved here.
8.00–12.00 p.m. The night of the museums. Partizán live from the Blinken OSA.
Introductory talk:
Orsolya Dobrovits (President, Trade Union of Public Collections and Culture Workers)
Mrs. Albrecht, née Kunszeri Gabriella (former Head, Department of Heritage Protection, National Archives),
Gergely Nagy (Member of the Board, Hungarian Section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), artportal.hu)
Museum Snapshots:
former and current staff of the Museum of Applied Arts and the Museum of Natural History, representative of the Palladion Workshop and the Pécs Art Council
Research Institutions Under Attack:
Mária Székely (Member of the Board of Trustees, Lukács Archive International Foundation)
Gábor Egry (Director General, Institute of Political History)
János Rainer M. (Chairman of the Board of Trustees, 1956 Institute Foundation)
Community Initiatives:
Records Uncovered and Time of Actions (Tettek ideje) research
Roma Collections:
Ágnes Daróczi (Minority Researcher, Romano Instituto)
Angéla Kóczé (sociologist, CEU Romani Studies Program)
Hajnalka Somogyi (Director, OFF-Biennale)
The program is in Hungarian.
4.00–12.00 p.m. House tours every two hours.
Exhibition hall and archives in a historic building. The Goldberger House, an industrial monument, is open to the public once a year. Its basement holds records of the fieldwork that underpinned Radio Free Europe's broadcasts during the Cold War, as well as collections of human rights documents. This year, the house tours highlight the endangered collections preserved here.
FOR ENGLISH TOURS, CONTACT US AT zsambokim@ceu.edu
Entry is only possible for house tour participants with valid immunity cards.
The recording of this event is available on the Partizán YouTube Channel.