News, events
2016/10/12
According to information provided by FŐTÁV Ltd., responsible for Budapest District heating, there will be no heating and warm water service in NSZL from 3 a.m. Wednesday October 12, 2016 until 10 a.m. Thursday October 13, 2016. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest our readers to bring some warm clothes with themselves.
2016/10/07
Preparing for procreation, the elephant goes East, near Paradise where mandrake is growing. The female animal eats from the fruit and she offers it to her mate. While he is eating, she seduces him and gets pregnant. The baby is born in water where her enemy, the dragon cannot attack her. – Bestiarium Zircense takes up the last sixteen pages of a bulky medieval book. The facsimile edition describing real and imaginary beings will be presented in Zirc in October 13, 2016.
2016/10/10
Under the title “Expanding History”, a temporary exhibition was launched by the National Archives of Hungary. The exhibition presents major document gifts of the past 15 years, including document collections having arrived, via Mikes Kelemen Program, from Hungarians living in diaspora.
2016/10/05
The Theater Collection of National Széchényi Library invites you to the presentation ceremony of a source edition of the first Hungarian translations of King Lear, published in the ReTextum series of Reciti Publishing House in the 400th memorial year of William Shakespeare’s death. The event will start at 5 p.m. on Wednesday October 12, 2016.
2016/10/04
Between October 1 and October 22, 2016, publications of the 1956 Institute are offered at a 30-percent discount price in the bookshop of National Széchényi Library.
2016/10/04
Between October 7 and October 10, 2016, there will be a film shooting in Buda Castle. Access to National Széchényi Library will be undisturbed.
Materials of the grandiose exhibition on book history arrived in our Library as part of a cooperation agreement signed by NSZL and the National Central Library of Taiwan in spring 2015. The exhibition will present many rare books known as part of the high culture of Taiwan.
2016/09/28
Do you know the world of books before the invention of paper? Have you seen medieval engravings from the Far East? Come with us and discover cultural specialties of a remote world. You are invited to a tea afternoon, related to an exhibition of the National Central Library of Taiwan, to be held in NSZL on October 15, 2016.
2016/09/27
The latest part of our exhibition series entitled World War I on Maps will be opened at 3 p.m. on Thursday September 29, 2016. The opening ceremony will be followed by a guided tour of the exhibition.
Second part of our thematic exhibition series, presenting maps of World War I, aims at presenting civilian and military materials published and used during the war, as well as novelties of the world disaster, such as defense technology development, mass involvement and the involvement of the hinterland in total war.
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