Medieval Hungary

A new temporary exhibition opened at the Budapest History Museum , dedicated to St Margaret and the Dominican monastery on Margaret Island. ...

A new exhibition at the National Széchényi Library puts the famous library of Matthias Corvinus (1458-1490) in focus again. This time, t...

After three years of reconstruction work, the Museum of Fine Arts is now again open for visitors in Budapest. The museumʼs heating and ai...

Tile from the knight-figure stove. Buda, 1450s. © Budapest History Museum  A major exhibition on medieval stove tiles from Hungar...

I haven't had time lately to post on the Medieval Hungary blog - but there are several interesting news which needs some coverage here....

In this post, I would like to announce three new books which contain a lot of information about the history of art in Buda, the medieval ...

 Poster of the exhibition  A new exhibition, titled On Common Path - Budapest and Kraków in the Middle Ages opened last week at the Bu...

A major new exhibition about the building and the history of the Church of Our Lady (Matthias Church) of Buda Castle opened at the Budape...

Photo of the Romanesque Hall at the Museum of Fine Art © MTI The Museum of Fine Arts  in Budapest will be closed for the renovation of...

During the last five years, I wrote on various subjects on this blog, including the discoveries of treasure hoards and wall paintings, inte...

Dress ornament from Zalavár (Photo: Hungarian National Museum) A new, long-missing section of the permanent archaeological and historic...

Photo: Hungarian National Gallery / MTI Photo: Soós Lajos The main altar of the church of Kisszeben (Sabinov, Slovakia) is on view ag...

There were quite a lot of things I wanted to report on at the end of 2013. I hope to come back to these subject individually in the near fut...

2012 represented a sort of breakthrough for Hungarian art museums in the process of putting their collections online. When I wrote about th...