Technikatörténeti szemle 7. (1973-74)

MŰSZAKI SZAKMÚZEUMOK - Pál Vajda: Industrial Museums in Hungary (in English)

Indigo-Dyehouse Museum role in Hungary's economic and social development, it is reasonable to make these activities common knowledge, and to make use of museums as media of conveying information. The role water management plays in Hungary is defined by the fact that approximately one fourth of the country's territory has been recovered from waters taken underflood control, giving shelter today to almost one third of the population. Justified claim for the establishment of a museum on water management is of long standing, and the collection of facts and material had been in progress long before the Museum of Water Management could open its doors for the public. The museum bears the name of József Beszédes, a distinguished water engineer of the 19th century. As soon as material sufficient for the purpose has been collected, the museum was opened in Siófok at the Lake Balaton. The collection covers the past, present and future of water management in Transdanubia and the Danube Valley. In 1973, on the ocassion of the 25th Anniversary of the existence of the International Danube Committee, an exhibition under the title „Danube, our International Waterway" was organized on the history of Danube navigation, and the river control works carried out. The oldest existing indigo-printing factory in Hungary is the Kluge Mill at Papa, outstanding among similar relics in Central Europe. In 1962 it was turned into the Indigo-Dyehouse Museum displaying equipment, product samples and documentary material. The show rooms of the Indigo-Dyehouse Museum illustrate the entire indigoprinting process. The tools and technologies used did not differ at all from those