In the Hungarikum exhibition hall, paying tribute to Hungarian geniuses and their top achievements can contribute to the education of generations who value their traditions and have a unified national consciousness, because each Hungarikum is a bridge between people, the Minister of Agriculture said on Saturday at the Lakitelek Folk College.
After the meeting of the Hungarikum Committee, at the opening of the Hungarikum exhibition house, Minister of Agriculture István Nagy said: 83 Hungarian treasures, 142 outstanding national values, more than 1,100 locality and landscape collections, about 10,000 settlement values, 19 county value collections and almost 2,000 county values are now in the registers. . Pursuant to the committee's decision, the hungaricum collection was expanded this time with cross-stitch embroidery from Beregi in the Upper Tisza region, announced the Minister of Agriculture.
The Füvészkert ELTE, the tradition of apple growing in Szabolcs, the Székely national anthem and the men's and women's clothing of the week were included in the Hungarian Valuables. The head of the department emphasized that HUF 930 million are available to support the work of value-saving organizations, as in the previous year.
From this sum, 840 million forints can be used for the production of printed and electronic publications, films, the creation of exhibition spaces, and the implementation of events promoting Hungarian cuisine.
István Nagy emphasized: in the Hungarikum exhibition hall, which has just opened at the Lakitelek People's University, visitors can meet Hungarian chemists, physicists, space explorers, and inventors who, through their activities, contributed to the indiscriminate appreciation of original thinkers and creators in the scientific life of the world. All of them have created outstanding research value that carries meaning. They created not only great things, but also immortal ones, he added.
According to the Minister of Agriculture
the work of every Hungarian and every Hungarian genius is capable of becoming a symbol of national unity. And a nation can remain united even if its members are outside the country's borders. It can remain united in its common intellectual heritage
he said.
At the opening of the planetarium of the Hungarikum exhibition house, Zsolt V. Németh, the ministerial commissioner responsible for the supervision of outstanding national values, highlighted that the Hungarikum Park in Lakitelek has been expanded with new rooms and inspiring areas waiting for new discoveries.
Everything Hungarian is present here
he added.
According to the ministerial commissioner, the biggest technical challenge was the design of the planetarium. Space research is also one of the most challenging research areas for humanity:
the knowledge of the infinite that stretches above us and around us, the stars, the planets, the mysterious blackness and what lies beyond, this is the future that cannot be ignored
he said.
Széchenyi Prize-winning Hungarian ethnographer Attila Paládi-Kovács, a regular member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, emphasized at the opening of the Géniuszok útja exhibition space:
Hungarian science does not have a museum, but it has an almost two-hundred-year-old academy, a society of scientists and a pantheon of its most outstanding representatives living in our heads.
He pointed out: the life journeys of 21 Hungarian scientists will be presented at the now-opening exhibition of Hungarian geniuses, inventors and their inventions, and brilliant practitioners of the natural sciences and technical sciences will be featured here.
Sándor Lezsák, the vice-president of the Parliament and the founder of the Lakitelek People's University - commemorating the birth of the National Anthem on the Day of Hungarian Culture - said: the essence of the Hungarikum Liget in Lakitelek is that the visitors can "experience the National Anthem from the inside", the symbol of the Hungarian nation.
The Hungarikum exhibition house, in which the work of many people is combined, presents Hungarian values, where young people can get to know the Hungarian works through experiences, the work of Hungarian geniuses and scientists, and the planetarium is also connected to this.
The Hungarikum exhibition house was consecrated and blessed by István Kovács, bishop of the Hungarian Unitarian Church, Ferenc Bagi, a Roman Catholic priest from Lakitelek, and Géza Kókai, a Reformed pastor from Lakitelek.
MTI
Featured image: The buildings of the Hungarikum exhibition hall of the Lakitelek People's College - Hungarikum Liget on the opening day in Lakitelek on January 22, 2022. MTI/Csaba Bús
