The Musem of the Hungarian Village at Szentendre by Péter Kecskés / A guided tour around the Open Air Ethnographic Museum of Szentendre / Corvina 1990 / English edition of Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum Szentendrén

Paperback 1990

ISBN: 9789631328950  /  978-9631328950

ISBN-10: 9631328953

Pages: 92

PUBLISHER: Corvina

LANGUAGE: English 

!!! Condition of this book is Used Like New !!!

English Summary:

The background to the appearance of a new type of museum, the open air museum with its accompanying ethnographic collections, lies in the last third of the 19th century, when special exhibitions were mounted in more than one European country. One of the guiding principles of the organizers of these world exhibitions (e.g. Paris, 1867; Vienna, 1873) was the recognition that there was a historical connection between folklore and national culture. They aimed to illustrate this interaction as clearly as possible by moving away from the traditional form of museum collection and towards living collections of houses and articles of furniture in their natural environment. The idea of transferring such items worthy of preservation and presentation into one place, arranged like
a park, was first put into practice in Stockholm, in 1891.

CONTENTS
Introduction (Péter Kecskés) 5
The Upper Tisza Region (Gyorgy Balazs) 9
The Central Tisza Region (Ivan M. Balassa) 18
A Market Town in the Great Hungarian Plain (Imre Grafik) 23
Southern Transdanubia ( Tiinde Zentai) 37
Central Transdanubia (Gydrgyt H. Csukas) 44
Western Transdanubia (Friderika Biro) 52
The Plain in North-Western Hungary (Gyorgy Balazs) 60
The North-Eastern Region of Hungary ( Ivan M. Balassa) 70
The Northern Region of Hungary (Péter Kecskés) 74
A Highland Market Town (Péter Kecskés) 80
Selected Bibliography (Péter Kecskés) 88