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May Day of Museums 2019
2019/05/10
At the Museum Festival to be held on May 18 and 19, 2019, National Széchényi Library will recall memories of 1989 from the perspective of 30 years.
The new operating order of National Széchényi Library
2019/05/08
Partial closing as of June 18 and reduced repository service as of May 9, 2019
Two NSZL staff members elected as corresponding and full members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2019/05/07
Edit Madas has been elected as full member, while János Rainer M. has been elected as corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Under the rule of pashas and beys: population, economy and public administration during the Ottoman occupation – lecture
2019/05/03
Research putting the history of Ottoman occupation following the Battle of Mohács into a new light will be presented by the May lecture of Season 4 of the lecture series entitled “Orientalists in NSZL”. Next presenter of the cultural historical series featuring internationally renowned Hungarian researchers into the East will be Géza Dávid, historian-Turcologist, Professor of Eötvös Loránd University.
The History of the Transylvanian Unitary Church – book presentation
2019/05/09
Book III/1. of The History of the Transylvanian Unitary Church focuses on the persecution endured by the Kolozsvár (Cluj) Unitarian congregation, the annexation of their parishes, schools and churches, on the deprivation of the state office of the Unitarians, and the crippling of the Torda, Hévíz, Kál, Gálfalva, Szentháromság and Sinfalva congregations lasting for decades. The presentation ceremony will start at 16.30 on May 9, 2019 in NSZL.
Book presentation: Red Stars – Entertainment industry and socialist revues in the Rákosi Era
2019/04/24
Author of the book Dániel Molnár and Ildikó Sirató, Head of NSZL’s Theater History Collection will discuss topics such as the nature, operation, or inability to operate and disdain of show business, socialist revues, actors, dancers, artistes, snoopers, cultural policy, censorship and naked women – in the 1950s.
Our programs at the 26th International Book Festival Budapest
2019/04/23
This year, too, we are looking forward to seeing our former and new readers at the 26th International Book Festival Budapest, in Building “B” of Millenáris, at booth B50 with our new publications, discounts and with presentation ceremonies of two new books.
The Library will be closed on April 19 and 20
2019/04/16
National Széchényi Library will be closed before the Easter holidays on Good Friday April 19 and on Holy Saturday April 20, 2019. Happy Easter! We are looking forward to seeing you again in NSZL from 9 a.m. on Tuesday April 23.
Memories’89 – At the Border of a New Era – exhibition opening ceremony
2019/04/15
You are cordially invited to the opening ceremony of the interactive exhibition entitled Memories’89 – At the Border of a New Era, which focuses on memories of the change in political regime. The ceremony will start at 11 a.m. on Friday April 26, 2019 in the Manuscriptorium Exhibition Space of NSZL’s Manuscript Collection.
Memories’89 – At the Border of a New Era
An interactive photo exhibition of personal memories of the change in political regime will be opened in NSZL.


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