Folia Historica 32. (Budapest, 2017)

II. KÖZLEMÉNYEK - Debreczeni-Droppán Béla: A Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum tisztviselői az első világháborúban

its subject was already the protection against airstrikes. In the end it were not the bombardments what made the biggest damage in the Museum's building and in its roof but the mandatory metal contribution. Due to war materials running low in 1917, the copper parts of the building's roof and the arresters had to be turned in and were replaced by simpler materials. Later this had harmful consequences. The Hungarian National Museum joined the war propaganda as well. At the request of the Museum's leaders cannon and machine gun captured on the Russian and the Serbian front were exhibited in front of the building.

The Museum's scientists carried out scientific researches even amidst the horrors of war, not only in the hinterland but sometimes also while performing their military service just behind the frontline like e.g. Gusztáv Moesz botanist behind the Serbian front, or Jenő Kümmerle and Ernő Csiki naturalists doing methodical research in North Albania occupied by the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy during the war.

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