Museum of Ethnography to offer series of programmes marking Day of Hungarian Culture

The Museum of Ethnography is offering guided tours and night-time programmes in a week-long series of events marking the Day of Hungarian Culture held on Jan 22.

Visitors are offered guided tours of the temporary exhibition I find thee with God, my brother! – Gypsy stories, focusing on the work of linguist and ethnographer Kamill Erdos, on Jan 18, the museum said on its website. The same show will be the subject of a family afternoon and the starting point of a podium discussion on Gypsy music between renowned musicians Roby Lakatos, Jenő Lisztes and Zsolt Szomora on Jan 21.

Families are invited to spend the night in the museum on Jan 26, according to the official website.

Guided tours of other exhibitions on South Korea and on the Amazonian Indians will also be offered.

On Jan 24, a guided tour will be held of a temporary exhibition of the Seoul History Museum in Budapest, presenting the history and modern everyday life of the South Korean capital, including through changes in clothing and housing culture.

On Jan 27, two temporary exhibitions of the Ethnographic Museum entitled Beyond the photos: Roma and Indians will be held on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, presenting stories and photographs depicting Roma communities in Hungary and Yanomami communities in Brazil.

January 22 was declared the Day of Hungarian Culture in 1989, marking the day when poet Ferenc Kölcsey finalised the text that later became Hungary’s national anthem in 1823.

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