PHOTOS: Unique Hungarian museum about Trianon reopened

House Speaker László Kövér highlighted the importance of recognising the right to a national identity as a human right in his address to the reopening ceremony of the Trianon Musem in Várpalota, in western Hungary, on Friday. The museum was renewed from HUF 582 million (EUR 1.49 million) EU and HUF 350 million (EUR 900,000) Hungarian support.

Among others, the building’s heating system was completely renewed. As a result, they can welcome visitors even from autumn until spring. The museum building was once a castle of the famous Zichy family built between 1722 and 1725 and renewed following the plans of Miklós Ybl in thw 1860s, veol.hu wrote.

The right to a national identity

“The first step in Hungary’s own way out of the (trauma) of Trianon and the first step in Europe’s avoiding its own Trianon are the same: recognising the right to national identity as a human right and mutually promoting that right by states,” Kövér said.

Ensuring that right would allow Europeans to “freely inherit and pass on the language, culture, and homeland of their ancestors,” he added. The right to a national identity is “crucial in protecting a general human dignity” and key for “reinforcing peace, security, and stability”, he said.

Ensuring the right to a national identity could be “the cornerstone of rebuilding a European Union which has by now disastrously lost its way and purpose,” Kövér insisted.