Bereczki Ibolya - Cseri Miklós - Sári Zsolt: Ház és Ember, A Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum évkönyve 27. (Szentendre, Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, 2015)
CSERI MIKLÓS: Káldy Mária köszöntése
Miklós Cseri TRIBUTE TO MÁRIA KÁLDY Mária KÁLDY, born in 1945, has been working for the Hungarian Open Air Museum since 1974. As group- leader for community culture, she graduated in the Debrecen Teacher Training College in the subjects community culture and library knowledge. In 1984 she obtained her university degree in the subject of community culture at the Art Faculty of Eötvös Loránd University. She played a major role in the elaboration of community culture and museum education profiles of the Hungarian Open Air Museum, and also in the formulation of concept for knowledge transfer and in the management of museum marketing and communication activities. From 1986 she was head of department for community culture matters, between 2000 and 2007 she held the post of PR-head and later, then the post of director for the Museum Education and Methodology Centre (MOKK). Her work focused on the complex planning and implementation of knowledge transfer in the field of museums; being a pioneer in museum education in Hungary, she developed modern methods and implemented them in the subject of local history and ethnology within the framework of museum education. Moreover, she participated in historical, ethnographic and knowledge transfer background research of the museum’s exhibitions; she formulated the concepts for utilizing permanent exhibitions, on the basis of which the permanent exhibitions of the Museum still function even today. An extraordinary chapter of her life-work was the execution of a priority project within the central methodology development, as part of the programme “Museums for Everyone” (MMP) with the purpose of promoting the educational role of museums (TÁMOP - 3.2.8/A/08/2008-0002). Being the professional leader of the project, Mária KÁLDY accomplished together with Ibolya BERECZKI one of the most important museum projects for education of the past decades and so fulfilled a national competence task. Mária KÁLDY lectures in MOKK, furthermore, she is also guest lecturer at several universities and colleges in Hungary. On the 26th October 201 5, her colleagues and admirers paid tribute to her on the occasion of her 70th birthday at a celebration of an unforgettable atmosphere. Happy Birthday! 258
