MaNDAHungarian National Digital Archive

The chamber exhibition of the Piarist Museum invites online visitors to a real time travel, because it introduces the early representatives of nowadays so popular VR (virtual reality) and 3D images. Our graphical collection hides about 60 pieces of coloured perspective engravings, panorama views that have a unique cultural, media, and art historical importance. These pictures played the role of the internet or television in the 18th century, taking viewers to far away, unreachable lands and cities, imitating the illusion of reality.

Intermezzos, scandals, reports on activities of rich artists, period crimes, adverse weather – just a couple of examples from the news articles related to Siófok once. In our weekly virtual exhibition, we have selected old postcards and stories connected to the capital of Balaton.

Pécs was famous not only for the Zsolnay ceramics, but also for Gyula Varga’s car factory, though one can hardly hear about his merits. Our latest selection may offer an enjoyable reading to car lovers primarily. However, the photos of the family Varga revive an exciting period and naturally, you can have an insight into the life of a family as well.

The digital chamber-exhibition of the Piarist Museum is offering a representative selection from different depictions of the Virgin Mary preserved in the collection. Scenes from Mary’s life, universal symbols of Marianism, and copies of icons and statues of Mary shrines related to the Piarist Order and Hungary appear on 17th-18th century Baroque engravings.

If you ask people in the streets of Hungary about János Neumann, it is likely that they will know his name and will answer: „he is the inventor of the computer”. This is a laurel that was never sought by the scientist, who was born in Budapest, in a house at the corner of Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Street and Báthori Street in 1903, and as a “wonder child” he graduated at the Fasori Evangelical Secondary Grammar School among László Rátz’ students, to become a chemical engineer, and later an internationally renowned mathematician, the Man of the twentieth century.