Medieval Hungary

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

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

Two new collection catalogues of the Museum of Fine Arts (Szépművészeti Múzeum) in Budapest have been published recently. The catalogues t...

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...

Miklós Mojzer in 2006  Miklós Mojzer, the former director of the Museum of Fine Arts, passed away last weekend in the 83rd year of life...

Medieval and Renaissance tapestries on view at Esztergom Calvary Tournai, late 15th century Esztergom, Christian Museum   An exhi...

Raphael: Head of an Angel. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest  Today is the birthday of Raphael , who was born in 1483. Only 37 years later...

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...

It is a long-standing tradition in Hungary's major art museums to celebrate on St. Nicholas's day: it is the name day of Miklós M...

Last week I had a chance to see the exhibition " Glanz und Grösse des Mittelalters " at the Schnütgen Museum in Cologne ( Sp...