Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)

Budapest Főváros Levéltára (Budapest Municipal Archives)

Archival Board detailed finding aids have been published on the archival material, just as in other archives of the country. The work of the institution, however, on the treatment of the history of the capital has lost its intensity. Under a government decree the Archives is an institution of the capital from the 1 January 1968, and is called Archives of the Capital Budapest. Its supervising organ is the Ministry of Culture, through its administrative unit called the Archival Board, but it is directed by the Executive Committee of Budapest City Council. The Executive Council exercises its rights through its Cultural Section. The status and tasks of the Archives are regulated by decreelaw No. 27 of 1969 together with the supplementary ordinances and the Organic Charter of the Municipal Archives, confirmed on the 1 December 1970 and modified in 1974. The repository is competent for the archival material produced in the area of Buda, Pest and Óbuda, from 1872 in Budapest, from 1950 larger Budapest, or having Budapest significance, respectively, except those of national and Pest county administrative, judicial, public prosecution and economic organs and national and Pest county institutions, corporations and associations. Thus the Budapest Municipal Archives regularly collects the records of the Executive Committee of the Municipal Council and of its subordinated organs, the district councils, municipal institutes, institutions, offices, public works and council enterprises and also those of administrative, judicial and public prosecution organs, economic enterprises, institutes, institutions, associations and corporations active or formerly active in the area of the Budapest City Council, together with the duplicates of the state registers in Budapest territory. In addition the repository collects the papers of persons who played a significant role in the history of the capital and the copies of archival material of importance for Budapest, preserved not in the Municipal Archives but in other institutions in the country and abroad. It expresses an opinion on the street names in the capital, or theii alteration respectively, and registers them. On the demand of the Executive Committee of the Municipal Council the Archives gives expert opinion in any question related to the economic, social, political and cultural problems of the history of the capital. As to microfilms and publications it is in exchange relation with institutions in the country and abroad. The wide scientific activity and that serving general education of the Archives are developing, having produced already some results. For the one hundredth anniversary of the unification of Budapest the institution pub-