Ihász István - Pintér János szerk.: Történeti Muzeológiai Szemle: A Magyar Múzeumi Történész Társulat Évkönyve 5. (Budapest, 2005)

IV. Kiállítások - Winkler Ferenc: A Pécsi Városi Múzeum centenáriumi kiállítása

The Centenary Exhibition of the Baranya County Museums Directorate Ferenc Winkler To call up the past, to reverie is a dangerous human activity. It carries with it the risk of injury to oneself if, yet longing, one is unprepared to face it. On the other hand, in Europe at least, it has never been possible to build any future without reminiscing, without strikingly memorable images. For us, is it the message hold for us? Is it this unchangeable, desperate past that has been put on display in the BCMD centenary exhibition, turned into words, pictures and public and human content? Is the exhibition a prediction, a warning or a preparatory message or merely a culturalhistorical survey of the hundred-year-old mould of Baranya County and of nineteen similar county museum. It required all the co-operation of the profession's specialists - all the museologist from every department, restorers and public officials - to bring about the exhibition in Felsőmalom Street, which flawlessly depicts for public figures and decision-makers alike that unique "surplus of value", lost or misappropriated for a hundred years in this small yet unimaginably wealthy country instead of having been invested or supported, and impossible to place in its regional context. The Pécs Memory-Image exhibition carefully and immaculately lays before us the market value, unparalleled in the museum world, or the cultural-historical character, unique in Europe, of Hungary's county museums. It is worth both individual and society observing and contemplating its message, as it is also worth asking once again the question, "What will remain for our descendants from all that we have so painstakingly collected?"