New Permanent Exhibition at the Ferenczy Museum

The Ferenczy Museum Center's (FMC) new permanent exhibition, The Collection (1900-2022), has opened, featuring 122 years of works. The exhibition, which will be renewed from time to time, will be on display at the Ferenczy Museum in Szentendre, north of Budapest, until the end of March 2028.

FMC Director Zoltán Prosek pointed out that the exhibition is semi-permanent, as some elements of the exhibition are renewed every year or every six months. For example, the retrospective exhibition of artists connected with Szentendre in the first room, which will be presented in the form of a chamber exhibition, and the third room, where archaeological, ethnographic and local history exhibitions will be shown in the future, are also linked to the selection. This will allow the public to get to know the FMC's collection better, and visitors will be able to have a say in the content of the changing exhibits.

Andrea Csapláros, president of the Association of Hungarian Rural Museums, highlighted that the Ferenczy Museum exhibition reflects the presentation of new contexts. The Szentendre museologists are among those who transfer the values of the past and the present into the future, and this can only be done with passion, apart from the continuous development of professional competences, she added.

The exhibition also includes outstanding works that have not been exhibited for a long time, as well as a selection of new works. Among others, visitors can meet some of the most important artists of the 20th century from Szentendre, such as Jenő Barcsay, Endre Bálint, Béla Czóbel, Pál Deim, the Ferenczy family, Dezső Korniss, János Kmetty, Lajos Vajda, Tamás Kaszás and Zoltán Szentirmai. “There is also a special section devoted to the work of artists from the Lajos Vajda Studio in Szentendre," the exhibition's brochure says.

At the same time as the exhibition, the ISBN art bookshop was opened on the upper floor of the museum, offering limited edition art books and unique publications from Hungary and the region, in addition to the FMC's own art albums.