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The Museum of Fine Arts faced a challenge early in the year when plans for an underground expansion were scrapped by government decree. But a decision on a pair of exhibitions was taken in just two weeks and the museum brought a reshaped exhibition of ?The Eight?, a group of Hungarian painters active early in the 20th century that had already shown in Pécs, as well as Mummies Uncovered to Budapest. The Eight drew more than 50,000 visitors between May and September. Mummies Uncovered can be seen until February 19, 2012.
A collection of sculptures by 25 artists from the European Union installed on a lake in the City Park, a short walk from the museum, attracted several hundred thousand people in the summer.
The Museum of Fine Arts opened a show called From El Greco to Rippl-Rónai, featuring works from the collection of Marcell Nemes, at the end of October.
Across the square from the Museum of Fine Arts, the Műcsarnok started 2011 with an exhibition of the unique dream world of the Belgian artist Michael Borremans curated by Zsolt Petrányi. The exhibition space followed up in the autumn with a show of the ?Bizottság?, a group of Szentendre-based artists who were part of Hungary?s counterculture in the 1980s. The show drew 15,000 visitors. The last show to open in the space last year was Milorad Krstic?s Das Anatomische Theater which is being shown in conjunction with performances by the Forte Company.
The Hungarian National Gallery showed for the first time Mihály Munkácsy?s monumental Christ Trilogy. The paintings attracted 202,000 visitors.
The gallery also showed 170 works by Károly Markó, some never before seen in Hungary.
The museum opened an exhibition of work by Károly Ferenczy on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the artist?s birth.
The Hungarian National Museum started the year with The World of Széchenyi, which drew 30,000 visitors. Photography exhibitions were in the focus in the summer, topped off by a retrospective of the work of André Kertész.
The museum is showing an exhibition of crime scene technology dedicated to László Teleki until the end of January 2012.
The Museum of Applied Arts attracted 80,000 visitors with a show of treasures collected by generations of the royal Esterházy family. It also hosted an exhibition of Persian art from the Qajar period.
The Nagtétény Castle Museum, now under the aegis of the Museum of Applied Arts, hosted its traditional show of Christmas trees decorated by industrial artists until December 30.
The Ludwig Museum for Contemporary Art (LUMU) opened a retrospective of the work of the Croatian artist Mladen Stilinovic in April. The museum showed about 200 photographs, photograms and light paintings of László Moholy-Nagy in the summer.
LUMU showed an exhibition reflection on the museum on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of its first permanent exhibition.
In the autumn, LUMU opened a show of the visionary architect Yona Friedmann.
The Museum of Ethnography continued an exhibition of Finnish stereotypes in 2011 and opened exhibitions on women and home industry, on Amazonia, on Transylvanian churches and on jewels from Oceana.
The Hungarian Museum of Natural History welcomed visitors with two new permanent exhibitions from November, one showing ?Hungarian? dinosaurs and the other showcasing minerals and precious stones.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
