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    Hungarian winter expelling festival, Busó-walking of Mohács

    The oldest and most famous winter expelling carnival of Hungary – called ‘busó –walking’ of Mohács – is starting today. About 800 busós and 200 maskers are going to take their farewells of winter. The ‘busó-walking’ is a world-famous folk tradition of the Sokác (Croatian: Šokci) population in Mohács. The winter expelling and spring welcoming tradition can be found in the mythological world of other countries as well. It belongs to the family of protecting and fertility spell feasts.
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    Gingerbread

    Our virtual exhibition, presented during the carnival season, explores gingerbread: its history, guild traditions, Hungarian customs, beliefs, superstitions, and tales. It traces the continuity and transformation of this tradition from antiquity to the present day. The introductory image of the exhibition is a work created around 1860 by a puppet-maker master from Andocs. It depicts the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus, surrounded by rosemary leaves; beneath them appear floral motifs, spiral ornaments, and the mirrored inscription “S. MARIA.”

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    Decorative versos of visiting cards

    The term ‘verso’ has Latin origin (folio verso) and is used to describe the back of a visiting card. The heyday of the visiting card in photography was between 1852 and 1919, and these cards were usually portraits, the verso of which was discovered very early by photographers as an advertising medium. On the back of the cards, the photographers not only gave the address of their studios but also their awards, accompanied by artistic graphics. In our current selection, these ornate versos, and with them the photographers' careers come to life.

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    High-Altitude Leisure in the Mátra Mountains – Galya Grand Hotel

    Galyatető is one of the most significant high-altitude resort areas in the Mátra Mountains, which rose to national prominence as a tourist destination in the first half of the 20th century. Its mountain climate, clean air, and distinctive natural setting attracted visitors seeking rest and recovery from an early date. This virtual exhibition explores the history of Galyatető and the Galya Grand Hotel, illustrating how a mountain ridge in the Mátra became a key site of modern Hungarian leisure culture.

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    Crimes at the turn of the century

    Crime stories attract people’s attention; mysteries, thrill and scandals can always arouse great interest. It was not differently at the beginning of the 20th century either, as the great interest in the Elza Mágnás murder case shows – to mention a recently hyped case from the history of Hungarian criminalistics.

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Besides searching and browsing digitized cultural contents, visitors can view thematic virtual exhibitions from the records of MaNDA’s database, which are widened regularly. Our aim with the exhibitions is to introduce the cultural contents of the database in a new context, in a way that they would never be in the same virtual room otherwise, due to their spatial, legal or formal features. You can see our former exhibitions under this menu.

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