2022
Chair Pairs - Contemporary chair studies based on the collection of the Museum of Ethnography
Saturday '11
Guided tour in the Angels and skulls exhibition (in Hungarian)
Saturday '11
Guided tour in the Collection of Saddles (in Hungarian)
Saturday '11
Angels and Skulls. Festive Paper Decorations form Mexico - Guided tour in Hungarian
Tent without borders
Migration and fleeing: exhibitions, films, conversations with experts, performances, Dj programs at the shared venue of the Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris and the Museum of Ethnography, Budapest.
Advent in the Museum
Join us on the 3rd December 2016 (Saturday) from 10.00am – 1.30pm to concentrate on preparing to Christmas.
Museum is closed on 26 of January
Artefact of the Month
The journeyman cordwainers’ jug shown here is a typical example of a green-glazed guild vessel with sculpted design elements. Made to hold 14 litres of wine, it features a date of 1827
Artefact of the Month
Jewish Objects
It has been the task of this volume to seek out and identify such material: to scour the museum’s holdings for Jewish objects from both Hungary, and abroad.
Saturday '11
Guided tour in the historical building of the Museum (in Hungarian)
Saturday '11
Guided tour in the historical building of the Museum (in Hungarian)
Saturday '11
Guided tour in the permanent exhibition (in Hungarian)
The Night of the Museums
The Night of Museums
The Museum closes at 2 p.m. on 8 of July
Museum is closed on 13 of July
Museum is closed on 18 of July
Tent Without Borders
Citypass Museum Discount
Artefact of the Month
Artefact of the Month
In November, the month of its birth as an institution, the Museum of Ethnography will be marking the 100th anniversary of the death of the noted Hungarian Africanist, Sámuel Teleki (1845-1916).
Artefact of the Month
Nativity scenes are produced in many places around Africa, not only by Christians, but also for sale to foreign tourists. Of course, African nativities incorporate figures, scenes, plants, animals, and objects derived from life on that continent, including people with elongated silhouettes.
Today Museum close at 1 pm.
Museum is closed on 27, 29, and 30 of November
Holiday opening hours
The Museum is closed on December 24th, 25th, 26th, 31st, and on January 1st 2017.
With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year
Saturday '11
Guided tour - Traditional Culture of the Hungarians exhibition (in Hungarian).
Saturday '11
Guided tour - Traditional Culture of the Hungarians exhibition (in Hungarian).
Saturday '11
Visit in the storage of footwears - Guided tour in Hungarian
Saturday '11
Guided tour in the historical building of the Museum (in Hungarian)
Saturday '11
Guided tour in the historical building of the Museum (in Hungarian)
Saturday' 11
Codes of Freedom - Giuded tour In Hungarian
Saturday '11
Guided tour - Traditional Culture of the Hungarians exhibition (in Hungarian).
Saturday '11
Guided tour in the Pottery Collection (in Hungarian)
Saturday '11
Guided tour - Traditional Culture of the Hungarians exhibition (in Hungarian)
Tabula Online
#etnocolor
Colouring for adults from our Collection of Drawings.
Night of Museums
Artefact of the Month
The history of footwear is closely intertwined with that of humanity: shoes have been a part of human life – supporting, covering, and protecting the feet of their wearers – for millennia.
Artefact of the month
According to the museum’s inventory log, in 1910, Baron Albert Nyáry (1871-1933), on a visit to the Nógrád County village of Piliny, collected two fired clay objects, which he described as an “Olah Romani idol and candlestick”.
Artefact of the Month
This scarf from the holdings of the Museum of Ethnography is both a fresh acquisition - having come to the institution in mid-September from the Hungarian-Serbian border area near Ásotthalom - and one associated that is with a topic now fresh on people's minds.
Artefact of the Month
In the early 20th century, a new form of harvest festival, the Festival of the New Bread, was inaugurated as the closing event of the harvest season, a period that in Hungary commenced with the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul.
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West of Transylvania, East of the Great Plain (in Hungarian)
The Collection of Béla Bartók in the Museum of Ethnography (in Hungarian)
#quarantineobjects
Baráthosi Balogh Benedek: Collection from the Ainu and the Amur aerea
Beyond the Body
Croatian Intangible Cultural Heritage on UNESCO Lists
Breaking the Ice
New Acquisitions, Newly Restored Artefacts, 2011
Exhibition of the "Royal Palace-Humboldt Forum" Foundation
Exhibition of the "Royal Palace-Humboldt Forum" Foundation
Casa mare
Cooperation of the Coordination East Central and Southeast Europe at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin and the Museum of Ethnography, Budapest
World Press Photo 2012
Research on Sacred Song in the 1950s
Rakosi60@neprajz.hu
Saaremaa, Muhumaa és Hiiumaa
The Waterfowl People
OBJECTIVE_CASE → Subjective Ethnography
New Acquisitions, 2012
World Press Photo 2013
Behind the Wall and Curtain: China
Souvenirs of Sasvár
Véménd 1916-1920
Photo Stories of the Danube Swabians 2008
A project of the Coordination for East-Central and Southeast Europe at the Museum of European Cultures of the Berlin State Museums
Romani Lives - Gypsies in Spain
Images and Gypsies - Images of Gypsies
The Ryijy lives On - Finnish Ryijy Textiles 1707-2012
Lost Beauty
More Than a Neighbor
Vietnamese porcelain - fragile images of the past
West of Transylvania, East of the Great Plain
'I was a humble filmmaker'
Baráthosi Balogh Benedek
Der cifraszűr (in German)
Perspectives
VWhen Pablo Picasso and his fellow artists first encountered sculptures from Africa and Oceania, treasures of tribal art, at the beginning of the twentieth century, they obviously considered them as artworks. Do ethnographers and researchers, who understand the functions that these objects have in tribal culture, see all them as artworks? Do today's viewers see them as objects of art or interesting ethnographic artefacts from a barely known, remote world?
Objects Left Behind
Museum is closed
With Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year
Take a look at the new museum's design plans
Museum of Ethnography offers educational programs and activities for all ages
Museum of Ethnography offers educational programs and activities for all ages
Museum of Ethnography offers educational programs and activities for all ages
World Press Photo 2016
One of the most important press photo exhibitions of the world is coming again to the Museum of Ethnography, Budapest. World Press Photo 2016 aims to inform, and to inspire an understanding of the world.
Exodus – Witnessing modern migration
For the first time in the 100-year history of the Pulitzer Prize Hungarians were awarded in New York. Photographers Laszlo Balogh and Bernadett Szabo made it onto the winning Reuters team with their photos of the refugee crisis.
Nativity
This exhibition take you into the wonderfully complex realm of folk tradition to explore the single custom - familiar to Hungarians across the country - of the travelling nativity play.
Two Continents One Soul
What can be the message of a Congo researcher from the beginning of the 20th century to our times? Emil Torday (1875–1931) who started his carreer as a simple bank officer in Budapest and Brussels might have realised his bravest dream when he accepted a colonial post in the Free Congo State in 1900.
Used Stones
Counterculture by the lake
Pictorial Collective
World Press Photo 2015 accompanying exhibition <br> Conference hall
WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2015
World Press Photo First Prize Pictures Selection
World Press Photo 2015 accompanying exhibition
Hungarian Researchers in Ethiopia
New Acquisitions 2013-2014
From the Székely Gate to the Last Towel
"Since You Were Lost..." The Jewish Cemetery in Salgótarjáni Street
Picking up the Pieces
Nigeria Monarchs
Dispossession and Self-Respect
The True Story of Braziers, Pot Menders, and Trough Carvers
The Miska jug
From Folk Songs to the Genevan Psalter
City of Cyclists
World Press Photo 2014
Beautiful Handicrafts of Tohoku, Japan
Still lives in the Szekler Partium
Charming feathers
Bocskor, Boot, Paduka
The exhibition explores the rich variety of times, places, uses, and meanings an ethnographic artefact can represent by considering an array of objects of a single type: footwear.
World Press photo 2017
21st Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition 2002
Images of Ancient Occupations
Contemporary Clothing Chart
Feasts and Everyday Life in Csömör
World Press Photo 2007
New Acquisitions, 2007
The Umling Family
The Photographic Dynasty of Székelyudvarhely
Legendary beings, enchanting flowers
The Unknown Europeans
New Acquisitions, 2007
With Pipe, Drum, and Didgeridoo...2
Tura Between Past and Future
The Other
Children's Worlds #5
How We See the Finns?
New Acquisitions, 2008
The Spirit of the Budoh
A Village in Hungary - Átány
Lamb of God
Better Future
Ordinary Stories
Angels and Skulls
Codes of Freedom
The primary aim of this exhibition is to spotlight, through symbolism, the relationship between the Hungarian Revolutions of 1848 and 1956.
Finland Through the Ages
100 years of continuities 100 years of change
The Kalevala through the Eyes of Hungarian Artists
Faces Concealed in Gold - Gold Masks from Asia
New Acquisitions, 2009
From the Land of Metal Music
Alvar Aalto Houses
Duodji
Metamorphoses
Exhibition of the Hungarian Design Award and Design Management Award
This Beloved Home
Objective Inflection - Subjective Ethnography
Living Folk Art 2010
Franz Liszt and "Gypsy Music"
Women, Hand-Woven Rugs, Home Industry
Amazonia
Transylvanian Churches
Jewels from Oceania
Haapio
World Press Photo 2011
Danube
In Search of Adventure
An Invented Tradition
World Press Photo 2003
X. Bethlehem Crib Exhibition
Original, Copy, Forgery
Ethnophotography In Full Colour
World Press Photo 2004
Urban Portraits
"If You Want To Be a Piper"
"Only real shamans' dreams come true"
Huszka, Collector and Sketch Artist
Johannes Pääsuke - A Man with Two Cameras
Clay Shamans and Stone Jaguars
World Press Photo 2005
Hungarian Folk Jewellery
Where Three Counties Meet
plastic
Love, Wooing, Wedding in the 20th Century
MTI Photo - 50 Years of Pictures
World Press Photo 2006
Poklada
Immortal Blue Jeans
Jobs
Impress
Ceramics Space - Ceramics of the World
Yanomami. Spirits. Survivors. Photo exhibition of Claudia Andujar
SHIPIBO-KONIBO. Portraits of my blood – Photos by David Díaz
The Collection of Béla Bartók in the Museum of Ethnography
West of Transylvania, East of the Great Plain
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