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Budapest Design Week 2015 Welcomes Visitors To The Modern Home
- 24 Sep 2015 2:50 AM
- property
Budapest Design Week 2015 is starting tomorrow offering a wide range of programs at over 100 venues all around the Hungarian capital in the next 10 days with two country-side cities, Pécs and Sopron also joining the festival. This year the program series attracting the entire Hungarian design profession as well as the general audience focuses on the home, the place that is regaining its status in ...
Hungarian National Ballet: Mad Dance, Erkel Theatre Budapest, 24 September
- 22 Sep 2015 1:00 AM
- community & culture
The first premiere of the Hungarian National Ballet in the 2015/16 season is the contemporary choreography Walking Mad – for the first time in Hungary. A modern ballet programme entitled Mad Dance! – Yet There Is Method In It is the first production in the 2015/16 season of the Hungarian National Ballet at the Erkel Theatre.
Updated: Wine Festival, Buda Castle, 9 - 13 September
- 10 Sep 2015 1:26 AM
- food & drink
"Discover the Taste of Hungary!" Here there are almost 140 grape varieties, in up to 22 historic wine regions. More than 200 wineries at this years Wine Festival represent all the Hungarian wine regions, and most of the varieties. In 2015 there are themed wine routes, so those who are maybe less confident in their knowledge of local wines can easily find their way around. It is the stated goal of ...
Central European Avant-Garde Magazine Conference, Budapest, 17–19 September
- 8 Sep 2015 11:00 AM
- community & culture
The subject of the conference is the ‘Central European avant-garde magazine’, arguably the most important medium of communication for progressive literature and visual arts in the region during and after WWI.
Xploring Budapest Video: Semmelweis Museum & Archives Of History Of Medicine
- 6 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- getting around
The Semmelweis Medical History Museum, together with the National Medical History Library (1950) and the Archives (1974) make up the most important research basis of the Hungarian physician history. The Museum was opened in 1965. In the last 4 decades the collections of the museum got highly extended, and thus by now they form one of the richest physician and chemist historical collection.
Refurbishment Of Gül Baba Shrine Budapest Starts
- 5 Aug 2015 4:06 AM
- property
The turbeh of Gül Baba, one of the westernmost holy shrines of Muslims, is closed for archaeological excavation until late September, daily Magyar Nemzet said. The works are part of a complete refurbishment of the octagonal tomb, located close to the Danube on the Buda side of Hungary’s capital city, archaeologist Adrienn Papp of the Budapest History Museum said. Gül Baba (The Father of Roses) ...
Ends On 23 August: Art In Transylvania, National Gallery
- 28 Jul 2015 9:04 AM
- community & culture
The exhibition Destiny and Symbol - Hungarian Art in Transylvania 1920-1990 presents the art from this region and period on an unprecedented scale. Instead of an approach based on existing stereotypes, the show introduces the lesser-known, hidden or completely unknown aspects of Transylvanian art. This comprehensive exhibition greatly relies on works loaned from public and private collections in ...
Tom Hanks Visit’s Budapest’s House Of Terror Museum
- 23 Jul 2015 11:35 AM
- community & culture
Two-times Oscar-winning Hollywood superstar Tom Hanks has visited Budapest’s House of Terror Museum while in the Hungarian capital to shoot his new mystic thriller “Inferno”, adapted from Dan Brown’s bestselling novel. The actor is reported to be an avid fan of history, his father having served in the US Navy during the Second World War and himself playing in several history-themed films during ...
Vajdahunyad Castle Summer Music Festival Program
- 9 Jul 2015 10:55 AM
- community & culture
This Castle Festival in Budapest is a feast of classical, swing, klezmer and traditional Hungarian gypsy music. The truely beautiful courtyard of the Vajdahunyad Castle provides a romantic background for this annual event. Performances this year are scheduled for Mondays and Thursdays from 9 Juy onwards, starting each time at 8:30pm.
Budapest Design Week 2015 Welcomes Visitors To The Modern Home
- 24 Sep 2015 2:50 AM
- property
Budapest Design Week 2015 is starting tomorrow offering a wide range of programs at over 100 venues all around the Hungarian capital in the next 10 days with two country-side cities, Pécs and Sopron also joining the festival. This year the program series attracting the entire Hungarian design profession as well as the general audience focuses on the home, the place that is regaining its status in ...
Hungarian National Ballet: Mad Dance, Erkel Theatre Budapest, 24 September
- 22 Sep 2015 1:00 AM
- community & culture
The first premiere of the Hungarian National Ballet in the 2015/16 season is the contemporary choreography Walking Mad – for the first time in Hungary. A modern ballet programme entitled Mad Dance! – Yet There Is Method In It is the first production in the 2015/16 season of the Hungarian National Ballet at the Erkel Theatre.
Updated: Wine Festival, Buda Castle, 9 - 13 September
- 10 Sep 2015 1:26 AM
- food & drink
"Discover the Taste of Hungary!" Here there are almost 140 grape varieties, in up to 22 historic wine regions. More than 200 wineries at this years Wine Festival represent all the Hungarian wine regions, and most of the varieties. In 2015 there are themed wine routes, so those who are maybe less confident in their knowledge of local wines can easily find their way around. It is the stated goal of ...
Central European Avant-Garde Magazine Conference, Budapest, 17–19 September
- 8 Sep 2015 11:00 AM
- community & culture
The subject of the conference is the ‘Central European avant-garde magazine’, arguably the most important medium of communication for progressive literature and visual arts in the region during and after WWI.
Xploring Budapest Video: Semmelweis Museum & Archives Of History Of Medicine
- 6 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- getting around
The Semmelweis Medical History Museum, together with the National Medical History Library (1950) and the Archives (1974) make up the most important research basis of the Hungarian physician history. The Museum was opened in 1965. In the last 4 decades the collections of the museum got highly extended, and thus by now they form one of the richest physician and chemist historical collection.
Refurbishment Of Gül Baba Shrine Budapest Starts
- 5 Aug 2015 4:06 AM
- property
The turbeh of Gül Baba, one of the westernmost holy shrines of Muslims, is closed for archaeological excavation until late September, daily Magyar Nemzet said. The works are part of a complete refurbishment of the octagonal tomb, located close to the Danube on the Buda side of Hungary’s capital city, archaeologist Adrienn Papp of the Budapest History Museum said. Gül Baba (The Father of Roses) ...
Ends On 23 August: Art In Transylvania, National Gallery
- 28 Jul 2015 9:04 AM
- community & culture
The exhibition Destiny and Symbol - Hungarian Art in Transylvania 1920-1990 presents the art from this region and period on an unprecedented scale. Instead of an approach based on existing stereotypes, the show introduces the lesser-known, hidden or completely unknown aspects of Transylvanian art. This comprehensive exhibition greatly relies on works loaned from public and private collections in ...
Tom Hanks Visit’s Budapest’s House Of Terror Museum
- 23 Jul 2015 11:35 AM
- community & culture
Two-times Oscar-winning Hollywood superstar Tom Hanks has visited Budapest’s House of Terror Museum while in the Hungarian capital to shoot his new mystic thriller “Inferno”, adapted from Dan Brown’s bestselling novel. The actor is reported to be an avid fan of history, his father having served in the US Navy during the Second World War and himself playing in several history-themed films during ...
Vajdahunyad Castle Summer Music Festival Program
- 9 Jul 2015 10:55 AM
- community & culture
This Castle Festival in Budapest is a feast of classical, swing, klezmer and traditional Hungarian gypsy music. The truely beautiful courtyard of the Vajdahunyad Castle provides a romantic background for this annual event. Performances this year are scheduled for Mondays and Thursdays from 9 Juy onwards, starting each time at 8:30pm.