Hungarian Heritage House

Applied Folk Arts Section

 

The Council of Applied Folk Arts was founded in 1953. From 2004 on, it is operating as the Applied Folk Arts Section of the Folk Arts Department at the Hungarian Heritage House.

The General Manager and the Applied Folk Art Section are supported by the Applied Folk Art Advisory Board.

 

The Applied Folk Arts Section supervises the Museum of Applied Hungarian Folk Art. The museum has a collection of approximately 9,000 items scattered in local applied folk arts museums throughout the country. The Budapest head museum also holds a considerable amount of exhibition material.

 

The majority of the collection consists of textiles, embroideries, wood- and bone carvings and products of folk pottery. There is a smaller amount of laces, dolls in folk costumes, baskets, furniture, metalwork, leatherwork, blue-dye textiles and decorated eggs.

 

The activities of the Museum are in line with the tasks assigned by the government. Such a task is the qualification of folk artworks, as well as calling for contests and organizing exhibitions.

 

The collection of the Museum of Applied Hungarian Folk Art is unique in the sense that its items - the products of contemporary applied Hungarian folk art - are being produced continuously. Acquisition of new items is subject to an up-to-date knowledge of contemporary trends and changes.

 

Persons having a permanent qualification and outstanding results are nominated, upon request, "Applied Folk Artists". The title is awarded by the Applied Folk Art Advisory Board.

 

Our tasks include

• qualifying folk artworks;
• awarding the honorary title "Applied Folk Artist";
• maintaining the Museum of Applied Hungarian Folk Art, enlarging and managing the collection;
• calling for national contests regarding applied folk arts; qualifying artworks organizing exhibitions of the artworks;
• preserving and promoting applied folk Hungarian art both in Hungary and abroad.

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Contact deatils:

 

Zoltán Szabó - Head of Section

Hajna Barsi - Ethnographic Specialist

embroidery, costumes, lace, dolls, jewelry, metalwork

Zoltán Csákányi - Ethnographic Specialist

wooden objects, instruments, toys, felt, leatherwork, decorated eggs, ginger bread

Tímea Major - Ethnographic Specialist

pottery, rush work, rush-mat, husks, soft rush, wicker-woven objects

Mária Soltészné Nagy-Győri - Educational Specialist

qualification procedure

Tel/fax: +36 1 201-8734

 

6 Szilágyi Dezső tér, 1011 Budapest, Hungary

Postal address:, Pf. 23, 1251 Budapest

Phone/Fax: +36 1 201-8734