Budapest museum of Asian art to reopen to public on Saturday

The Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts will reopen to the public on Saturday after a closure forced by the outbreak of the coronavirus in the spring.

The museum’s Made in Asia exhibition, which was mounted last year to celebrate its 100th anniversary, can be viewed on Saturdays and Sundays between 11am and 4pm, the museum said on Monday.

The exhibition presents the most outstanding artefacts of the museum’s Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Southeast Asian, Mongolian, Tibetan, Nepali, Middle Eastern and Zichy collection.

On Saturday, the museum on Andrássy Street will host a presentation of Hungarian photographer Zoltan Gaál’s book on Japan.

The exhibition portrays the greatest periods in the museum’s history, allows an insight into the collecting criteria and presents the most representative artefacts of each collection of the museum (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, South East Asian, Mongolian, Tibetan, Nepali, Near Eastern and the Zichy collection).

However, the peculiarity of this exhibition lies in the fact that the presentation of hundreds of objects and vulnerable groups of objects is only possible if the exhibition itself changes from time to time, meaning the displayed artworks vary. In addition to basic artefact protection considerations, this also means that the scene, the connection, and dialogues between objects also constantly change.

So, it is definitely worth revisiting the exhibition because there is always something new to discover!

During the forced closure in the past several months, the professional staff has continued the preparations for the largest-ever remodelling of the planned installation and the replacement of certain artworks. Thanks to the hard work, in October the museum can present the Japanese collection’s samurai armour and weapons in all its finery as well as outstanding paintings from the Chinese and the Korean collection.

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Source: MTI