Szabadfalvi József: Írások Herman Ottóról és a Herman Ottó Múzeumról (Borsodi Kismonográfiák 25. Miskolc, 1987)

se's and many others' valuable vorks got to Miskolc through the same channel. Kálmán Koris collected folk art objects from Mezőkövesd and South Borsod, while Gyula Istvánffy studied the folk art of the Palóc in Bánvölgye. Collecting the living world i.e. plants and minerals of the region mainly of Bükk Mountain was also favoured. Here József Budai should be mentioned first who worked as a museum warden, for a short period. The Borsod-Miskolc Museum similarly to others run by local administration was nationalized and drawn under uniform state control in 1950. In 1953 it took Ottó Herman's name. After rearrangement in 1954 the collection units of the Museum showed the following pattern: ethnographical collection with 3319 items, archeological and numismatical collection with 40066; scientific collection with 8244; pieces of fine art: 278. The specialists' staff of the Museum were gradually organized in the 50s when archeologists, ethnographers and historians were employed and the restorers' and photographers' workshop also began to work. Papers of Herman Ottó Museum in Miskolc were published in 1955 while the first volume of series Herman Ottó Museum's Annual was issued in 1957. With this a significant exchange of home and foreign publications was realized. The regular lecture series Museum Mondays in 1954 was to widen the museum's relationships with the public. Upto the mid 60s only this Museum could offer possibilities to arrange art shows. The national show series Graphical Biannual took its start here. Herman Ottó Museum - as mentioned before - became the leading institution of the county's museological network from 1963. With the exception of Rákóczi Museum in Sárospatak and Kossuth Lajos Memorial House, the museum became Leader of the museological institutions belonging to the Ministry of Culture. The new permanent exhibition was organized in the same year that had to be pulled down due to the damage of the side of the building facing Szinva in 1967. The institution got into a difficult situation by the late 60s. Due to the damage of the building the exhibitions had to be closed up for years, many specialists left the Museum and official and social aid also weakened. The mid 70s brought another prosperity to the institute. The old building of the Museum opened again to the public in 1974 with the permanent exhibition Man and Work. It was then when a room was arranged on the first floor to hold temporary exhibitions in the cosiest and oldest part of the building. Here the public could see "The Folk Art of Slovakia" in 1974, "Chemical Industry in Borsod" in 1975 (picture 27) 'ivory and 212