Petercsák Tivadar – Veres Gábor szerk.: Agria 44. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2008)

H. Szilasi Ágota: Állandó és időszaki kiállítások a Dobó István Vármúzeumban (1958-2008). Üzenetük általános közkincs

Ágota H. Szilasi Exhibitions at the István Dobó Castle Museum 1958-2008: Entering the Public Domain The museum's primary function is the collection of historically important objects and artefacts. It is in this spirit that the museologist endeavours to acquire the types of object they believe are most likely to meet the needs of their particular institution. Ideally once the artefacts have been written up, and perhaps restored, they are exhibited rather than kept in storage, thereby becoming part of a general exchange of information, and in so doing entering the public domain. Permanent exhibitions became a real feature in Eger during the 1960s. The Eger Picture Gallery, the no longer existent Ethnographical and Palaeontological Exhibition, and the old soldiers' quarters and lapidaria in the castle's gun chambers all opened in 1958, while The History of Eger Castle Exhibition opened in the Gothic Palace in 1965 following many years of restoration work. It was at this time also that the Hall of Heroes on the ground floor of the palace, featuring the tumba of István Dobó, also opened its doors to the public. Immediately outside the precincts of the castle Géza Gárdonyi s house, reconstructed in 1952, was opened to the general public in 1963, following further restoration work, to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the writer's birth. In the intervening decades these exhibitions, with that one exception, have continued, albeit in varying formats, with the content of the exhibitions sometimes changing at the behest of the museum staff. During the course of the 1980s further permanent exhibitions were added. These included Execution, Torture and Humiliation in Old Hungary (1986), as well as exhibitions held outside the castle complex, like the Telekessy Pharmacy Museum (1987), and the Toy Museum (1989) at the House of Youth (Ifjúsági ház). During the 1990s new permanent exhibition venues opened, such as the Palóc Eolk Art Exhibition in Dobó tér and the memorial room dedicated to Mihály Vitkovics at the house of his birth, which has been open to the public since 1990. The most representative undertaking during the 1990s was the exhibition entitled Heves County and Eger in the 18th-19th Centuries opened in 1993, a local history exhibition dedicated to the emergence of the urban bourgoisie, which filled the three floors of the old gaol building in the courtyard of County Hall. This exhibition had to be closed in 2007. The archaeology collection also required a public forum, something which prompted the opening of a permanent archaeological exhibition in Füzesabony in 2000, while finds from the excavations at Visonta were given a home in Detk. While it would be impossible to list all the temporary and travelling exhibitions that have taken place, one should perhaps mention the National Watercolour 367