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Time Machine Budapest Provides an Immersive Journey through the City’s History

Opening on 8 April, Time Machine Budapest invites visitors to experience the city’s most significant historical moments in an immersive and interactive way. The exhibition uses advanced audiovisual technology to recreate events from the 1848 revolution to life in the…

‘As long as I am the boss, Scheiber is obliged to follow my instructions!’ — The Story of a Yawn from 1976

‘According to a letter written five days later, the situation quickly escalated and drew in the emblematic director of the Rabbinical Seminary, Sándor Scheiber…In light of the incident, the leadership of MIOK…turned to Scheiber, requesting in writing that he inform…

Orson Welles’s Escape from Hotel Gellért

‘I had been to Budapest before the war, but that was a long time ago. It was the first time I saw the theatre here. And I can safely say that I have seen real theatre,’ Orson Welles highlighted when…

What Were the Party Habits of the Youth of the Hungarian Kádár Era?

During the Kádár era, it was forbidden to drink alcohol on the streets and sometimes people were even searched and checked in pubs. In contrast, at house parties, young people had the opportunity to meet and flirt, and they only…

Hungarian National Gallery Presents Artistic Reflections on the Hungarian Holocaust on Memorial Day

The unique exhibition presents the memory of witnesses, with most of the works created between 1944 and 1947….
The statue of Cardinal József Mindszenty in Esztergom.

The ‘White Martyr’: József Mindszenty

József Mindszenty is often commemorated as one of the first victims of the Rákosi regime. However, his 1949 arrest and show trial were not the last stage of his ‘white martyrdom’: he spent one and a half decades as an…
A burnt-out Soviet armoured combat vehicle in Budapest in November 1956.

The Fate of the Uprising: 1956 between November and May

The events of the 1956 Revolution are quite well-known, at least in Hungary, as far as the beginning of it and the period of its brief triumph are concerned. What is less known is that the revolution was not fully…

Nostalgic Recollections of an Era — Marking the Anniversary of the Death and Burial of János Kádár

This piece provides an overview of the ‘Goulash communism’ times of Hungarian history, while attempting to answer the question: why do some Hungarians appear to be nostalgic about the Kádár era?…

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