Hungarian National Digital Archive • MaNDA database

Dunaújváros under construction

The notion of socialist city is related to the notion of industrial city closely. However, it was not easy to transform cities and adapt them to the new ideological system. Nevertheless, new industrial cities served as the socialist city type of the future – or rather, they could have served.
War gastronomy – not only the goulash is fake sometimes

It is not a novelty that work goes better when the stomach is full. But what can you do, when you do not have enough provisions? Egg-powder, tinned food, instant coffee, these are not the shopping list of a family that goes camping. Indeed, food substitutes appeared already in the First World War, to cater not only soldiers but also the civils, thinking about the lean times. We are going to look into the secrets of war cuisine this week.
Key questions

Similarly to gates, keys have important metaphoric meanings; either it is about things of key importance, key figures or the key of solution. Besides using them as metaphors, different kinds of keys play key roles in engineering and technical aspects in our culture as well: limiting unauthorized access, protecting the private sphere, and they also allow us to close up or hide things. Although modern keys are not as decorative as their medieval peers were, they are just as essential as their “ancestors” were, regarding functionality.
„Bright, colourful and loud as the roar of cannons!” – Little advert history

Whether you are aware of it or not, pay attention to it or not, it is still there everywhere and around you, in order that its impulses urge you to shop. Although the methods during centuries in the history of advertising changed due to technical developments, the main element of advertising remained raising attention from times immemorial.
Hotel Béke

In the beginning of the 20^th century, it was already common knowledge that coffee trade is a profitable business. Coffee trader Henrik Fábri, returning from his journeys in England and the Far East, heard the call of tourism and wanted to establish a modern hotel next to the Western Railway Station (Nyugati pályaudvar) in Budapest. Our current virtual exhibition is introducing you the story of Hotel Béke, or by its maiden name: Hotel Britannia.

Virtual exhibitions

Besides searching and browsing digitized cultural contents, visitors can view thematic virtual exhibitions from the records of MaNDA’s database, which are widened weekly. 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.

Partner institutes

Establishment of Europeana

During the period of the Swedish EU presidency in April 2001 in Lund, representatives of the then 15 Member States formulated their demand that a breakthrough in the field of cultural digitisation was necessary. One of their most important issues was that a cooperative forum should be created in order to put cultural digitisation in the European dimension and the accessibility and visibility of the European digital cultural heritage must be promoted.