Visitors admire Hungarian treasures at New York MET exhibition – PHOTOS

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Visitors at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art are astonished by the rarely seen silver treasures of the Esterházy family and the objects from the Castle of Fraknó (Austria, Burgenland), which was the estate of the noble Hungarian family. 

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Read alsoVisitors admire Hungarian treasures at New York MET exhibition – PHOTOS

Index reported that eleven objects were exhibited in the museum, which aims to represent the heritage and culture of famous European dynasties. The opening of the exhibition called Making Marvel – Art, Technology, and Entertainment at the Courts of Europe played a significant part in the cultural life of New York City. 

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No other museum has featured an exhibition representing the old continent’s most famous royalties and their lives before. 

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The exhibition features two hundred unique objects from the Renaissance and Baroque era of Europe with the help of prominent museums like the Victoria & Albert (London), Paul Getty (Los Angeles), the Art Institute of Chicago, the Kunstgewerbemuseum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, and the private Esterházy Foundation, which provided the eleven exhibits for the MET. 

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