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is effective and paperwork preserved in the abbeys and monasteries of the buy in Hungary today, the nine-hundred-year-outdated Hungarian record of the purchase arrives to existence as a result of a selection of is effective of artwork borrowed from quite a few domestic and foreign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.
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.