Hírek

On May 21, 2019, Endre Ady memorial conference will be held in Petőfi Literary Museum.

Several staff members of National Széchényi Library will deliver a lecture at the conference, or will take part in a round-table discussion.

Details of the program are available (in Hungarian) at the website of Petőfi Literary Museum.

Invitation card (in Hungarian)

This year our main topic will be: memories of 1989 from the perspective of 30 years.

Mimeographing? Krisztofóró? Linda? October 23. Kossuth Square? The Pregnant Papa? What is it that rings a bell for you of 1989?

The new operating order of National Széchényi Library

Hereby we inform our readers and the visitors of our cultural programs that, due to extraordinary tasks (network development, change of furniture, building of a digitization center, asbestos removal) related to the IT and infrastructural development of the Hungarian national library, NSZL will partially be closed as of June 18, 2019.

 On May 7, 2019, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) elected corresponding, full, external and honorary members.

János Rainer M., Head of Department at the 1956 Institute, university professor of the Institute of History at Eszterházy Károly University has been elected as corresponding member of HAS in the Section of Philosophy and Historical Sciences.

Research putting the history of Ottoman occupation following the Battle of Mohács into a new light will be presented by the May lecture of Season 4 of the lecture series entitled “Orientalists in NSZL”. Next presenter of the cultural historical series featuring internationally renowned Hungarian researchers into the East will be Géza Dávid, historian-Turcologist, Professor of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

National Széchényi Library will present the book based on its highly successful exhibition entitled Red Stars – Entertainment industry and socialist revues in the Rákosi Era.

This year, too, we are looking forward to seeing our former and new readers at the 26th International Book Festival Budapest, in Building “B” of Millenáris, at booth B50 with our new publications, discounts and with presentation ceremonies of two new books:

National Széchényi Library will be closed before the Easter holidays on Good Friday April 19 and on Holy Saturday April 20, 2019. Happy Easter! We are looking forward to seeing you again in NSZL from 9 a.m. on Tuesday April 23.

Opening hours

You are cordially invited to the opening ceremony of the interactive exhibition entitled Memories’89 – At the Border of a New Era, which focuses on memories of the change in political regime. The ceremony will start at 11 a.m. on Friday April 26, 2019 in the Manuscriptorium Exhibition Space of NSZL’s Manuscript Collection.