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| Octopus Multi-art Site at the Sziget |
Among the museums bringing their own tents to the island festival are Budapest's Museum of Fine Arts, Ludwig Museum, Museum of Applied Arts, Aquincum Museum, Transportation Museum, Museum of Science and Technology, National Gallery, National Museum, House of Terror and Petőfi Literature Museum, as well as the Szentendre Open-Air Museum, or Skanzen, and the city of Debrecen's Modern and Contemporary Art Centre (MODEM). All of the museums - along with Budapest's Műcsarnok - will offer festival-goers who show their wrist bands half price off the price of admission for the whole month of August.
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| Museum of Fine Arts |
The Museum of Fine Arts will be promoting its two temporary exhibitions: Soul and Body -- Kertész to Mapplethorpe through the Eyes of the Greatest Masters of Photography, and Renaissance in Pharaonic Egypt. Visitors to the tent can try their hand at making amulets and other jewellery every afternoon between 1pm and 7pm. Róbert Mosberger will bring his travelling laboratory to the tent to make mementos of light.
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| MODEM |
Debrecen's MODEM, appearing at the Sziget Festival's Museum Quarter for the first time this year, will present a colourful programme of progressive and contemporary visual and performance art.
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| Ludwig Museum |
The Ludwig Museum in Budapest is organising a programme based on its soon-to-open temporary exhibition of the work of Keith Haring. Visitors can paint T-shirts and play a game that tests knowledge of art history from cave paintings to graffiti.
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| Museum of Applied Arts |
Visitors to the Museum of Applied Arts' tent can make their own design creations with the assistance of several well-known local artists. The best design will be decided on by a jury of experts and rewarded.
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| Aquincum Museum |
The Aquincum Museum will reenact Roman life starting every afternoon at 2pm. The museum will also offer visitors the chance to be photographed in Roman costume.
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| Szentendre's Skanzen (photo: Tibor Illyés MTI) |
Szentendre's Skanzen will bring festival-goers back to their childhood with games, giant furniture and even over-sized "children's" clothing.
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| Museum of Transportation |
At the tent of the Museum of Transportation and the Museum of Science and Technology, museologists and restoration experts will share the secrets of their trade with visitors. Visitors can also design their own refrigerator magnet or make their own stroboscope film.
The Hungarian National Gallery invites visitors to get a taste of its temporary exhibition that features the work of the Bauhaus master Moholy-Nagy between 1916 and 1923. Visitors can also make a satchel, a wallet or even a raincoat in the museum's workshop.
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| House of Terror (photo: Eszter Gordon) |
The House of Terror will give visitors to its tent a look back at 1968, when "make love, not war" was the mantra. Many well known Hungarians who had an up-close look at the period will reflect on their own experiences on August 14.
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| Nyugat bus (photo: Eszter Gordon) |
The Petőfi Literature Museum is bringing a bus to the festival...a bus with a mini, multi-media exhibition that celebrates the hundredth anniversary of Nyugat, Hungary's most famous and influential literary journal.
