MaNDAHungarian National Digital Archive

The family Hild, who lived in Hungary, came from Bohemia. Almost all the men in the family excelled in the field of architecture, but there is no doubt that József Hild became the best known, who defined the image of Pest during the reform period with the buildings he designed; what a pity that we cannot admire many of them anymore. By his father’s early death, his mother inherited his father’s master rights, and the young Hild officially worked for Klára Hild. How busy he was showed well that he presented his masterpiece only twenty-seven years later — although by that time the rigid guild regulations had eased — and finally, citing his oeuvre, he was awarded the master rights in 1843. By this time, buildings such as the Tänzer House, which still stands today, or Lloyd's Palace enhanced his fame. The most significant works of his oeuvre will come to life this week.

While fashion and literature go their separate ways nowadays, the 19th century was dominated by a specific type of periodical, the fashion magazines of the reform era. This type of magazine had nothing to do with today's fashion magazines, of course, but could be understood more as a kind of fashion and fine art magazine. The fashion magazines got their name from the copper-plated or lithographed fashion pictures attached to their issues, and their intended audience was clearly female readers.

"In Hortobágy with the many mirages, there is a little tavern"... the familiar melody from Jenő Huszka's operetta Erzsébet is ringing in our ears. But do we know what famous taverns there are in the Hortobágy wilderness? In this exhibition we will find out.

We celebrate the birthday of our capital on this day every year, as Pest, Buda and Óbuda were united on 17 November 1873. Of course, we haven't forgotten the celebrated one either, we've put together a collection of our previous virtual exhibitions related to Budapest, so we wish you a very happy 150th birthday, Budapest!

“The tirelessly searching human mind that can never rest has found the method with which it can outsoar the light of the inaccessible “sun” that allows it to conjure fairy light from dark skies and created daylight from the night. And all these immortal achievements have been reached by electricity that has been peeked and riddled from the secrets of nature.” – Kiskunhalas, 1898. Our weekly exhibition is going to guide you into the world of the development history of lighting technology, with the aid of archive photos from our database.