Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2008)
ANNUAL REPORT • A 2008. ÉV - ÁRPÁD MIKLÓS NAGY: Centenary of the Collection of Classical Antiquities 1908-2008
László Krasznahorkai (then living in Berlin —What are you seeing: an interpretation of the Venus de Milo) reached the audience through a film monologue by András Jeles created for the centenary. The third movement, the Poetry competition consisted of poems written by invited poets Judit Agnes Kiss, Anna T. Szabó, Imre Kőrizs, László Lator, Ádám Nádasdy and Szabolcs Várady. These consisted of twenty-line hexameter poems on a topical issue ("party-time at the Museum of Fine Arts"), and improvisations in ancient metres on a w r ork of art selected on the spot. (Poems and two essays were also published in Mozgó Világ, no. 3, 2009). Meanwhile in the Renaissance Hall and in the permanent exhibition of ancient art the rich offerings of the Collection's Eos museum-pedagogy program were open to visitors, who could play ancient board games, make jewellery using ancient techniques, paint vases, and weave and decorate fabrics. The exhibition halls again CENTENARY PRESENT, HELLENISTIC MARBLE RELIEF provided space for an experimental collaboration between the National Theater and the Museum (Time Travel). Here, actors dressed as Pallas Athene, an Athenian potter, and a slave girl helped interpret the works of art. The rebetiko band Sirtos, which has been dedicated to bringing Greek music closer to the Hungarian audience for decades, perfomed in the Marble Hall. To sum up: "While the conference on 25-26 November marked the place of the Collection in international museology and scholarship, the night of 27th November was an elevating and amusing festival of living antiquity, entertaining and rich in conception and realization." (László Török, "One Hundred Years of the Collection of Classical Antiquities", MuseumCafé no. 1 [2009], 24-28.) The website of the Collection was renewed for the centenary, and it now "deserves to be regarded as the richest virtual Classics resource on the Hungarian web" (Okor, ibid. ). The documentary filmed on November 27 can also be downloaded from our website.
