Agria 43. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2007)
Pálosné Nagy Rózsa: A múzeumalapító Nagy Gyula életútja
champions out of village children who were more used to running in barefeet. As an external employee of the Ornithological Institute he started a course on bird protection, where they made nesting boxes and ringed birds. He was also elected to the local Hunting Association, and regularly published in hunting journals. In 1951 he was appointed headmaster of the school in Gyöngyössolymos, the same year the leaders of the Gyöngyös District Council entrusted him with the task of organising the establishment of a museum in the town. Gyula Nagy then set about the organisational work and the collecting activities that ultimately led to the opening of the first exhibition at the Orczy residence on July 21st 1957. In 1962 he was named the museum's curator. It was he who established the Friends of the Museum Association, started the Múzeumi Füzetek (Museum Pamphlets) series, which were to be published annually under the title Folia Historico Naturalia Musei Matraensis from 1972. He also launched a research programme looking into the surrounding natural landscape, as well as started the hunting collection. It was his intention to open a separate hunting museum in Gyöngyös, something he was unfortunately unable to realise. Two permanent exhibitions, and numerous temporary exhibitions were organised during his curatorship, not only in Gyöngyös but throughout the country as a whole. He stood at the forefront of initiatives promulgating hunting culture. At the museum he initiated a basic hunting training programme, as well as big game management and master hunting courses, which acquired something of a national reputation. His bold plans were brought to an end by his sudden death on April 14 th 1983. His various undertakings saw him presented with a number of awards, including a Gold Service Medal, the Gyöngyös Pro Urbe Medal, the Nimród Medal, and the Order of Excellence. It is Gyula Nagy's lasting achievement that the Mátra Museum became the country's most important regional natural history museum. After his death a street was named after him in Gyöngyössolyom, as was the school there. 704
