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Under the title “Expanding History”, a temporary exhibition was launched by the National Archives of Hungary. Open until February 28, 2017, the exhibition presents major document gifts of the past 15 years, including document collections having arrived, via Mikes Kelemen Program, from Hungarians living in diaspora.

More about the exhibition (in Hungarian)

You are cordially invited to the presentation ceremony of a source edition of the first Hungarian translations of King Lear, published in the ReTextum series of Reciti Publishing House in the 400th memorial year of William Shakespeare’s death. The event will start at 5 p.m.

Between October 1 and October 22, 2016, publications of the 1956 Institute are offered at a 30-percent discount price in the bookshop of National Széchényi Library.

Between Thursday October 7 and Sunday October 10, 2016, there will be a film shooting in the territory of Buda Castle. Access to National Széchényi Library will be undisturbed during shooting.

The world of Taiwan is not unknown for visitors of National Széchényi Library. As part of the cooperation agreement signed by NSZL and the National Central Library of Taiwan in spring 2015, a grandiose exhibition will arrive in Budapest in October, 2016. The exhibition will present books known as part of the high culture of Taiwan.

The 42nd Congress of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) was organized by Hungary, and participants of the congress paid a professional visit to the Hungarian national library.

Within the framework of the Autumn Festival of Museums, NSZL will hold a roundtable discussion entitled Zichy’s Everyday Heroes, related to the exhibition entitled Zichy’s Drawn Heroes.