Szilárd Demeter, the director of the Petőfi Museum of Literature (PIM) has won the bid to serve as next director of the Hungarian National Museum, the minister of culture said on Tuesday.
Speaking to an evening round table programme on public cultural TV channel M5, János Csak said Demeter “is in the first place a philosopher, but is one of the rare people who has worked in the EU, led a whole institutional system while preserving its profile as a literary author”.
Demeter has been selected from among ten contenders and will take up his post on March 6, the minister said. Here is a photo of him:
He said that a new centre named Széchenyi Ferenc Public Collection Centre comprising six cultural institutions would be set up and operated “as a holding”.
It will bring under one roof the National Museum, the National Széchenyi Library, PIM, the Hungarian Natural Science Museum, the Museum of Applied Arts and the Hungarian Museum of Commerce and Hospitality.
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