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New Hungarian National Museum Director Appointed, New Central Cultural Holding Operation Announced

• 1 Mar 2024 9:01 AM
• Hungary Matters

Szilárd Demeter, the director of the Petofi Museum of Literature (PIM) has won the bid to serve as next director of the Hungarian National Museum, the minister of culture said.

Speaking to an evening round table programme on public cultural TV channel M5, János Csák said Demeter “is in the first place a philosopher, but is one of the rare people who has worked in the EU, led a whole institutional system while preserving its profile as a literary author”.

Demeter has been selected from among ten contenders and will take up his post on March 6, the minister said.

He said that a new centre named Széchenyi Ferenc Public Collection Centre comprising six cultural institutions would be set up and operated “as a holding”.

It will bring under one roof the National Museum, the National Széchenyi Library, PIM, the Hungarian Natural Science Museum, the Museum of Applied Arts and the Hungarian Museum of Commerce and Hospitality. 

Demeter: New Coordinated Museum Centre Will Have to Present Cultural Unity

The new Széchenyi Ferenc Public Collection Centre comprising six cultural institutions will have to present the unity of Hungarian national cultural identity, Szilárd Demeter, the director of the Petőfi Museum of Literature (PIM), said.

The coordinated operations of the National Museum, the National Széchenyi Library, PIM, the Hungarian Natural Science Museum, the Museum of Applied Arts and the Hungarian Museum of Commerce and Hospitality will have to ensure that these institutions are able to offer a public service that can present a unified national cultural identity, Demeter, who will take over as director of the National Museum on March 6, told public broadcaster Kossuth Radio.

Demeter said he disagreed with the idea that writers, visual artists and musicians should operate separately, arguing that culture was whole when it was unified.

“The Hungarian National Museum isn’t just an institution with dusty objects, but a knowledge centre, and presenting the diversity, unity and complexity of this knowledge is a good task,” he said.

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