Műemlékállományunk bővülése, új műemlékfajták (Az Egri Nyári Egyetem előadásai 1987 Eger, 1987)

Nováki Gyula: Őskori és középkori földvárak Magyarországon

— the creation of the People's Democracy — the crushing of the 1956 Counter-revolution and the process of consolidation — the development of the cooperative movement — the building of Socialism The Museum received financial support from the Ministry of Culture to start research in 1981. Between 1982 and 86, the Institute for the Organization of Scientific Knowledge and Data Processing offered a significant sum of money, and so did the Committee 6 Experts for the Protection of Historic Sites, that was spent on supplementary photography. After studying numerous foreign examples, the Museum found the forms and solutions it found most suitable. The publication that came nearest to our aims published by Urania, Leipzig and entitled "Gedenkstätten (Arbeiterbewegung, Antifaschistischer Widerstand, Aufbau des Sozialismus). ; A work was published in Hungary in 1979 by the Record Office of the Institute of Military History entitled "Revolutionary Sites and Memorials to the Liberating Forces of our Country", which dealt with the significant sites from the period between World War I and the Liberation. This was the first publication of its kind and the Museum employed it as a basis for further workThe Hungarian Museum of the Workers' Movement couldn't have embarked on such a national research programme on its own. It was necessary to cover the whole of the country. The Ministry of Culture asked all the historians working at institutions under its control to participate in the work. At the same time, the Museum relied on the County Party Committees, local branches of the People's Patriotic Front, local schools and history museum for their help. Questionnaires were sent out to all those who might be interested. This appeal for help turned out to be effective. The Communist Youth Organization also announced a competition, the topic of which was research into historic sites. As a result of this work, the museum gained data covering several thoused sites by 1984. The information usually included the title, address, date of erection, and if a work of art, or architecture, the initiator of the memorial, along with body responsible for its maintenance, the text on the memorial or plaque and ä detailed architectural description. This information from all over the country was collected on cards and checked. (Often we had information from several sources and it was sometimes ocntradictory, and on every occasion, the Museum checked the veracity of data.) The information on the cards was supplemented with historical descriptions, personal recollections and in some cases biographies provided by the Museum and relating to the memorial. Museologists were also involved in the collection of data. From 1981, they travelled around the country and even found memorials in places that were completely absent from local history monograms. The Museum created a list on the basis of the material collected, and on the basis of this three different catalogues were created. The first was a topographical catalogue, in which the counties are listed in alphabetical order, and county by county, the towns, villages and hamlets. Within them, the memorials are listed in alphabetical order. Using this catalogue, we can locate the memorials to be found in the different parts of the country. The second is a personal catalogue listing the monuments in alphabetical order, depending on the person celebrated. We find, for example, the memorials related to Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky together; his birthplace, homes, grave etc. This would apply, of course, to anyone else. Only those places were listed where there are memorials standing, or statues. The third is a thematic catalogue, which lists the monuments according to the dates of the events they celebrate. We find all the memorials relating to one particular event or movement. Here, we find, for example, all the memorials to the Republic of Councils or to the various different Workers' Homes. The purpose of these three types of lists was to ensure that these memorials could be approached from as many directions as possible. The National List has been supplemented with an atlas. While producing the list, we also marked them on a map. All the memorials and sites are listed around the county, and shown on county, town and village maps. The memorials, plaques and graves are listed on the backs of the maps, along with their precise location. Furher research is in progress, and any new sites or memorials discovered are immediately entered into the national list. At present, the completed research and data are recorded at the museum. In honour of the 40th anniversary of the Liberation of Hungary, a list has been prepared of Soviet Military Memorials and Cemetaries, to be found in Hungary. Several hundred pages were prepared and translated into Russian and handed over to a representative of the Soviet Ministry of Culture. More than 10,000 pictures were prepared to illustrate the list and we believe that these photographs are now at the State Museum of the Revolution. During the collection of data, photographs of memorials were taken all over the country. The financial support already mentioned made this possible. The counties offered us help in this process, particularly the county museum authorities, but Hungarian newspaper photographers also participated. All the plaques and memorials in Budapest have been photographed with the exception of those that have been erected in the last few months. 3/4 of the memorials in the provinces have also been photographed.