Cseri Miklós, Füzes Endre (szerk.): Ház és ember, A Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum évkönyve 12. (Szentendre, Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, 1998)

BALASSA M. IVÁN: Százéves a néprajzi falu

Übernahme-Übergabe- Protokollen, usw. Diese Dokumente deckten neue Aspekte des Ethnographischen Dorfes auf. 3. In der Mitte des Ausstellungsraumes haben wir eine hundert Jahre alte Einrichtung rekonstruiert. Die damals ausgestellten Objekte wurden im Ethnographischen Museum aufbewahrt und mit ihrer Hilfe haben wir einen Teil eines damaligen Hauses errichtet. Die Einrichtung stammt von der selben Region, wie der Gebäudekomplex, wo die Ausstellung untergebracht ist, und so kann man das Einrichtungskonzept vor 100 Jahren und heute im Ethnographischen Freilichtmuseum vergleichen. 4. Das Ethnographische Dorf bestand aus 24 Bauernhöfen, die Hälfte von diesen stellte die Ungarn, die andere Hälfte die Nationalitäten vor, die damals in Ungarn lebten. Im nächsten Teil der Ausstellung haben wir diese vorgeführt, sowie diejenigen Bauten, die in irgendeine Weise eine Beziehung zum Ethnographischen Dorf hatten. Mit Hilfe von Photos haben wir das Leben des „Dorfes" anschaulich gemacht und die Gebäude, die als Muster dienten für Gemeindehäuser, Schulen, Krankenhäuser, usw., die im Dorf zu errichten waren. Iván Balassa M. THE ETHNOGRAPHIC VILLAGE IN 1896 The Ethnographic Village, considered as the ancestor of all Hungarian open air museums opened in 1896 as part of the exhibition staged on the millenary of the conquest of Hungary. This exhibition, which claimed all the characteristics of a world exhibition, was recalled 100 years later by the exhibition in the Ethnographic Open Air Museum in Szentendre. We created the exhibition environment in a transplanted barn in the middle of the building complex presenting the region of East-Hungary in the museum. In the course of the preparation of the exhibition several so far unknown data and documents emerged and we considered it as necessary to preserve them in a sort of catalogue after the closing and dismantling of the exhibition. The exhibition had four main parts: 1. Forerunners of the exhibition: we presented here the houses of the World Exhibition in Paris (1867), of the World Exhibition in Vienna (1873), the interior decorations of a Hungarian exhibition in 1885 and the CzechSlavic exhibition in Prague in 1895, which was studied as immediate model. 2. Preparation of the exhibition: is due to the efforts of a young ethnographer, János JANKÓ. He travelled all over contemporary Hungary and selected the building complexes and interior decorations to be set up in Budapest. Plans and drawings were made for carrying out the project and these documents, together with budgets and take-over protocols were presented to the public the first time at this exhibition. The documents revealed new aspects of the Ethnographic Village. 3. We reconstructed a 100 years old interior decoration in the middle of the exhibition room. The objects, exhibited hundred years ago, remained in the Ethnographic Museum and we furnished with them a part of a house of that time. The furnishing came from the same region as the building that was housing the exhibition and the public was offered the opportunity to compare the furnishing concepts of today in the Ethnographic Open Air Museum with those of hundred years ago. 4. The Ethnographic Village consisted of 24 farmer houses, half of them presenting the Hungarians, the other half introducing the national minorities living those days in Hungary. These were shown in the next part of the exhibition together with buildings related somehow to the Ethnographic Village. We illustrated with photos the life in the „village" and those buildings, which served as model for parish halls, schools, hospitals, etc. erected in the Village.