For the first time, the Ministry of Education and Culture organised a night in the autumn, similar to the one in the summer, when museums across the country offered special programmes late into the evening. Tickets could be purchased for HUF 1,300 for adults and HUF 600 for children.
Hundreds of people stood in a line that snaked around the Museum of Fine Arts, waiting to see the temporary exhibition From Botticelli to Titian. Interest was so high that only pre-registered visitors were allowed in, and then just 400 at a time.
The Hospital in the Rock also drew big crowds for tours of the bunker by candlelight accompanied with music.
Live music, as well as crafts and tests of skill, were on the programme at the Natural History Museum, where the Predators exhibition and a show of nature photographs were big hits.
At the Museum of Applied Arts, the musician Jamie Winchester entertained visitors.
Although total visitor numbers will be tallied only later, Hungarian National Gallery PR manager Judit Demeter said about 5,000 people came to see the temporary exhibition Munich in Hungarian on Saturday evening. Many heard a concert by Orchestra Fugato in the atrium, and the interactive opera writing programme Opera Looper was also popular, she added.
Judit Lovas
, department head at the Hungarian National Museum, said about 5,700 people came to the museum on Saturday evening. A mixed media performance by the AGUAVIVA Formation retracing the steps of Cervantes was one of the highlights of the evening, and another was a performance of excerpts from the writings of Lajos Parti Nagy by Eszter Csákányi, she added.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: Eszter Gordon
