Bányai Balázs - Kovács Eleonóra (szer.): A"Zichy-expedíció"- Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei. A. sorozat 48. (Székesfehérvár, 2013)
The "Zichy Expedition"
SZÉKES-FEHÉRVÁR... CROWNS WORK: 207 ming anniversary."5 Therefore he suggested archeological excavations in the county’s graveyards. In September 1892 the association invited the National Society of Archeology and Anthropology, which held its festive congress at the County Hall in Székesfehérvár.116 Its members and their colleagues from County Fejér then made excursions and excavations in the county, where they completed successful research not only in the primordial and ancient roman fields but in spots from the age of the settlement of the Magyars (Őrhalom, Mount Demkó).117 We have no reference about Jenő Zichy’s further organisation work in the Association, which began to decline later in the 90s and was reformed after two decades under the name Museum Association. This new Musem Association and the later Museum was founded on the solid basis - collection of antiquities, important publications, etc. - built among others by Dezső Hatytyúffy, secretary and guard of the antiquity store, vice presidents Mór König and János Károly and Jenő Zichy. “SZÉKES FEHÉRVÁR... CROWNS WORK” THE NATIONAL EXHIBITION IN SZÉKESFEHÉRVÁR IN 1879 In the 1860-70S Jenő Zichy was already well-known in aristocratic circles as an MP in his election districts and was respected for his patronage activities. He earned nationwide fame for succesfully organizing the exhibition in Székesfehérvár in 1879 and for his general support of industry. In the 186OS he worked mainly on the improvement of agriculture and transportation. He studied the channelization and water-engineering systems in England and in the Netherlands with the aim of using his observations in his homeland.118 Having returned home, he explained his plans of channelization in the Great Hungarian Plain in his pamphlet “The channel of Danube-Tisza, meaning the channel between Pest, Szeged, Szabadka and Kula”. His ideas were approved, the town of Szeged awarded him the title of honorary citizen but the plan, implementation of which would have facilitated the naval traffic between the Danube and the Tisza, especially the transport of agricultural products, was in the end “cancelled by private interests”."9 The channel would have resulted in the increased use the products of Hungarian industry, however the attention of the Count turned to the industry directly only in the late 1870s. He announced the idea of an exhibition in Székesfehérvár at the general assembly of the Economical Association of County Fejér in 1877. The members of the association immediately supported the Count’s proposal. Zichy’s idea was to use his experience from his smaller exhibitions to direct the attention to the products of Hungarian industry
