The exhibition "Genghis Khan and his Heirs - The Great Mongolian Empire" will open at the Hungarian National Museum in mid-May.
The exhibition, which is currently showing in Istanbul includes more than 500 objects made as early as the 12th century. The paintings, gold treasures, Buddhist statutes and writings come from the collections of twenty museums in Europe and Mongolia.
On January 19, the Hungarian National Museum will open an exhibition entitled "Germans in Hungary, Hungarians in Germany - European Lives". It will show 22 biographies demonstrating everyday life as well as language and culture in Germany and Hungary.
The Hungarian National Gallery is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year with a series of special exhibitions and a demonstration of the work of restoration experts.
The series, called "'57 - Fifty-Seven Weeks", will feature presentations of some of the National Gallery's most famous works by the museum's art historians. The series will also include an exhibition of the best examples of restoration carried out by the National Gallery's experts together with documentation of the restoration process. The exhibition of some hundred works will open in March.
In October, the National Gallery will open a retrospective of the works of János Vaszary selected from collections in Hungary and abroad. In December, a retrospective of the works of Mihály Zichy will open. The retrospective will include many pictures on loan from the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg.
The Hungarian Natural History Museum will open an exhibition of the world's best nature photographs from 2005 at the end of January, and on March 10, it will open "Giants of Patagonia", an exhibition of 150-million-year-old dinosaur bones from Argentina. Visitors will be able to see the bones and reconstructions of 14 dinosaurs at the museum.
The Museum of Ethnography will open on March 20 an exhibition of photographs made by the Kováts family of Odorheiu Secuiesc, or Székelyudvarhely in Hungarian, in Romania. The photographs span a period of a century, starting in the 1910s.
The Museum of Fine Arts does not plan to extend its current temporary exhibition "Van Gogh in Budapest", but it will open in March another temporary exhibition entitled "ParaStamp - Four Decades of Artistamps, from Fluxus to the Internet". The exhibition will show some 500 sheets of stamps.
The exhibition "And the Incas Arrived - Treasures from Peru before the Spanish Conquerors" will open at the museum on May 17. It will feature nearly 200 works showing successive and overlapping cultures. The objects include ceramics, textiles and exquisite jewellery of gold and silver.
At the end of July, the museum will open an exhibition of late works by the Austrian Baroque period sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt.
Source: Múlt-kor / Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
