A night in the spirit of famous Hungarian explorers: in the wake of Ármin Vámbéry, Móric Benyovszky and Sándor Kőrösi Csoma. We are looking forward to seeing you and your friends at our programs on June 25 including exhibitions, guided tours, book auction, quiz game, film screenings and registration discounts.
Heroes, explorers, innovators – programs of National Széchényi Library at the Night of Museums 2016
Tickets (armbands) are available at the Registration Desk as of June 17, 2016!
FLOOR 5
[1]Exhibition (National Relic exhibition space): Zichy’s Drawn Heroes [2] – Decorative albums illustrated by Mihály Zichy. Guided tours will be held at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. by Anita Szarka and Rita Szűts-Novák.
Tour of the repositories: From 6 p.m., every 30 minutes. The last tour starts at 1 a.m. Registration is required for this program.
Guided tour in the Library building: from 6 p.m., every hour. The last tour starts at 1 a.m.
Quiz game – On a Discovery Route in the Library, Drawing of prizes at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m., before the Book auction on the “Treasure Island” starts (on Floor 6).
Live broadcast of matches of the European Football Championship, starting at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. in Room 540.
FLOOR 6
[3]Ars Librorum exhibition space
Story-telling Textiles - Textile Tales. Textile exhibition of Noémi szeredi-Ambrus, guided tour with music and literature at 6 p.m. Making of Secession bookmarks for kids.
Ars Librorum space (in front of the tapestry)
Book auction on the “Treasure Island” at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m
Heroes, explorers, innovators – people in all ages were attracted by the secret of remote places and the promise of adventures and treasures.
[4]The title of our auction was borrowed from Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, whose world-famous youth adventure novel was first published as a series in a magazine for kids, between 1881 and 1882. The hero of Treasure Island, Jim Hawkins is a young boy who has to contend with a whole lot of dangers. You, however, do not have to travel beyond the seven seas, do not have to hire staff or beat the rebels if you wish to acquire treasures. All you have to do is bid and you can have all the wonderful and interesting items of our Treasure Island. Owing them, you can discover the world from the comfort of your armchair and you can get to know everyday and not so everyday heroes, or can acquire books, maps, old money and other prints and objects, “indispensable” for discovery and travel. These items have been offered for the auction by members of the staff and friends of National Széchényi Library.
At our mini auction, the operation and atmosphere of real book auctions are evoked; you are among friends and you can buy items at friendly prices, under playful conditions.
The downloadable auction catalog [5] includes the conditions of participation and the list of works submitted for auction.
Ceremonial Hall
Film screenings and lectures presenting the adventurous life of Móric Benyovszky [6] on several occasions during the evening
In front of Corvina Halls
Digital collections of NSZL will be presented by the staff of the Hungarian Electronic Library [7], The Electronic Periodicals Archive & Database [8] and the Digital Archive of Pictures [9]. Famous Hungarian explorers digitally: in the wake of Ármin Vámbéry, Móric Benyovszky and Sándor Kőrösi Csoma.
[10]Map Collection
- Map-making Hussar Officer [11] – János Lipszky memorial exhibition on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of his birth
- Museum pedagogical session – Globe making for kids
For more information on the program of the Map Collection, visit Földabrosz [12] blog.
Theater Collection
- Theater historical hero gallery – chamber exhibition
- Heroes, explorers and innovators of the theater – quiz game
- Shakespeare and his heroes – quiz game
Music Collection
- Szigetvár 450 – chamber exhibition: Heroic Memory of Miklós Zrínyi in Music. Selection from illustrated sheets of music composed in memory of the heroes of Szigetvár.
Early Printed Books Archive:
- ”…what could be more beautiful over this broad land than the ends?” Fate of the heroes of the ends region as soldiers, captives or travelers in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Manuscript Collection and Photo Collection
- “Must-Explorers” in Mexico – exhibition of drawings and photographs made and taken by Pál Rosti and Károly László in Mexico in 1857-58
FLOOR 7
[13]Exhibition: Millenium Dreams [14] – exhibition presenting the millennial anniversary of the Settlement of Magyars in the country. Guided tours of the exhibition will be held by Bernadett Simon at 9 p.m. and at midnight.
Our Reading Rooms will be open until 1 a.m.!
Discounts
- We welcome our visitors with super discounts in the Souvenir Shop of the Library.
- Discount registration during the night: 50% discount is given off the annual NSZL registration fee.