The museum, which is the brainchild of Miklós Jakobovits, deputy chair of the Barabás Miklós Guild in Transylvania, could find a home next to the Szekler National Museum in Sfantu Gheorghe, museum director Mihály Varga told the local Hungarian language newspaper Krónika. The Szekler National Museum has dedicated some of its space to the work of contemporary artists in the region since 1990, but the room is not enough, he added.
Jakobovits, who lives in Oradea, has been lobbying for support for the museum since the 1990s.
The core of the museum's collection would be works of the most important artists from the period between the two world wars: the second wave of the Baia Mare (Nagybánya) school, the painters of Szekler land and the artists of the Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár) school.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: mmakademia.hu
