On Saturdays and Sundays, colorful programs await those interested in the Cultural Heritage Days event series at more than two hundred locations across the country. Visitors are welcomed with almost 450 programs at various locations, including thematic walks, guided tours and concerts. This year's program series commemorates the defining moments of the 150-year history of Hungarian monument protection.
The programs include more than 120 themed walks, and those interested in the capital can visit the hidden corners of the Óbuda Gas Factory, the National Széchényi Library and the Historical Archives, among others. But there will also be programs at the National Museum of Theater History, Rudas Spa and Vigado in Buda. In Pesti Vigado, you can see the exhibition with curatorial guided tours, which brings to life the 150-year-old Hungarian monument protection with the help of photos, drawings, installations, projections and textual content.
As in previous years, the National Heritage Institute (NÖRI) will join this year's cultural event with themed walks, minibus tours and a concert related to the Petőfi bicentenary. As part of the program, György Ferenczi and Rackajam Petőfi's album will be played on Saturday in the Fiumei út cemetery. In addition to the general historical description of the cemetery, the Immortal Art - Sculptors and Statues walk provides an introduction to the most significant works and the lives of their creators, the actors and actresses' lives can be seen on the Thalia's Charm walk, and the artists' plots and mausoleums can also be visited as part of the walks .
Among the rural programs, visitors are welcomed with downtown walks in Baja, in Kalocsa with an exhibition presenting the 100-year-old state police, and in Kecskemét with a theater backstage tour, group activities and informative lectures.
During the weekend, Hungary's oldest, year-round ceramic art studio, the International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemét, will also be open to visitors. In Veszprém, visitors are welcomed in six historic buildings located on the castle grounds. City tours are organized in Békéscsaba and Orosháza, and visitors can learn about the exciting history of the Kohán Gallery and the Stefánia Wing in Gyula.
The main patrons of the event are the President of the Republic Katalin Novák and the Minister of Construction and Investment János Lázár. The entire program offer can be found on the website oroksegnapok.gov.hu.
The Cultural Heritage Days are the Hungarian event series of the European Heritage Days, which are already organized in fifty countries every year. The program series has been organized in Hungary since 1999 at 12,600 locations, with 735,000 visitors. Historical buildings that are usually closed to the public will be opened this weekend.
Source: MTI/vasarnap.hu
Featured image: the Mária Theresia salon of the Sándor Palace, in which some of the decorative objects come from the former queen. Source: MTVA/Commissioner: Csaba Jászai
