Two New Exhibitions on Monastic History at the Hungarian National Museum

Two New Exhibitions on Monastic History at the Hungarian National Museum

In the center of June 2021, two exhibitions opened at the Hungarian Nationwide Museum in Budapest, just about every devoted to the record of a monastic get.

The very first exhibition is focused to the 900 anniversary of the basis of the Premonstratensian (Norbertine) buy. The members of the get have been present in Hungary nearly due to the fact its foundation. In the last generations, the Premontreians had been also contributors and shapers of Hungarian culture, spiritual life, art and science. On the occasion of the anniversary, the Hungarian Norbertine Order  and the Hungarian National Museum presents the heritage of the get in a joint exhibition. The exhibition delivers an overview of the spirituality, founding, earlier and existing of the order in Hungary. It presents the materials heritage of the Premonstratensians in Hungary and highlights the contribution of the customers of the buy to the Hungarian tradition. In addition to the is effective and paperwork preserved in the abbeys and monasteries of the buy in Hungary today, the nine-hundred-year-outdated Hungarian record of the purchase arrives to existence as a result of a selection of is effective of artwork borrowed from quite a few domestic and foreign collections. The exhibition provides a number of vital medieval church buildings of the get, in unique Zsámbék, Rátót, Ócsa, and Lelesz, displaying stone carvings and copies of medieval wall paintings as well. 

The other exhibition (postponed from last yr) is committed to the most vital buy proven in medieval Hungary: the Pauline get. The exhibition was organized on the situation of the 750th anniversary of the loss of life of Boldog Özséb, the founder of the order and it gives a comprehensive photo of this Hungarian monastic order. Contemplating that the Hungarian origin of the purchase and the background of the purchase are little regarded, the exhibition mainly presents the Pauline history as nicely as the modern existence of the Paulines, highlighting the historical job of the Polish heart of the get at Częstochowa.
The exhibited objects (archeological finds, medieval manuscripts, modern-day prints, liturgical objects, quite a few sculptures, paintings and engravings) testify to the abundant heritage of the get. Amid quite a few Pauline manuscripts, a few arrive from ELTE University Library, these can also be consulted on the web: A 115, Cod. Lat. 115, Cod. Lat. 131
Fragment from the tomb of Saint Paul the Hermit,
from the Pauline church of Budaszentlőrinc, c. 1490
 (Budapest History Museum)

The two exhibitions continue to be on see at the Hungarian National Museum right up until the middle of September 2021.