Kecskés Péter (szerk.): Ház és ember, A Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum Közleményei 1. (Szentendre, Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, 1980)

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peril no measures of merit were taken for half a century. (Czakó Elemér 1909, Viski Károly 1931, Vargha László 1937, Domanovszky György 1940, Györffy István 1939, etc.) Inspite of the urging activities of the scientists the „Hungárián Skansen" could not be realised because of financial and cultural political resaons. A drastic change was brought in 1959 on the „Hungárián Open-air Ethnographical Museum Meeting" where on this conference organised by the Academy, ethnographists and architects took a stand on theoretical, practical and organisational matters. Then in 1965 on the basis of a decretum by the Hungarian Socialist Workers Partys Central Committee the Budapest Ethnographical Museum was dealing with the scientific planning and organisational issues. The site for the museum was allocated at Szentendre (30 kms to North form Budapest) in an area of 45 acres. Tne period between 1966 and 1972 was of the scientific preparation and the implementation of the first couple of buildings. The museologist of the Budapest Ethnographical Museum prepared the design sketches of the national collection (1967) then its plan for implementation and registers of buildings (1970). The Szentendre Open-air Ethnographical Museum became in 1972 and independent organisation with a national oeuvre of collection. Since 1967 the work in selecting, documentung the buildings and their procesin architectural and ethnographical sciences has been continued. During the past ten years the site implementation plans for the museum have changed so that now instead of small regional centres it focuses on showing large regions with their results in settlement, economy and history of architecture, that are called complex ..micro-villages". The first section of the Museum was opened in 1974 displaying a group of buildings from the Upper Tisza (river) region and a further nine regional district representation was buÜt out. Out of more than 3 hundred building a hundred became pulled down or rebuilt elsewhere on the site. The scientific preparatory work of the museum is a joint product of the Hungarian ethnographical museology.