A Haáz Rezső Kulturális Egyesület tájékoztatója (Székelyudvarhely, 1995)
Excerpt The Haáz Rezső Cultural Society is a legally registered society operating besides the Museum of Székelyudvarhely — Odorheiu Secuiesc —, according to the judicial decision 53/1990 from the 17. of July. It is a civilian, nonprofit, non-governmental society. As an independent legal entity our society is a member of the Transylvanian Museum Society (Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület). As among its aims it supports the Haáz Rezső Museum’s activity and helps it with means that are not in the Museum’s power as a state-controlled institution. Besides the work of the museum, we pay great attention to the preservation of Székelyudvarhely’s monuments, the preservation of the town’s cultural inheritance. We are also engaged in the organized contact of the Romanian Hungarian workers in public collections (museologists, instaurators, archivists); in the summing up of the Hungarian public collections of Transylvania. One of our main aims is the building up of the state collection’s civilian social background, and the institution’s autonomy. Our society finances itself from grants, granted also by foundations, and members subscriptions (beginning with the members meeting of 1994). We accept grants (in Romanian Lei) on the following bank account: Banca Comercială Română, Filiala Odorheiu Secuiesc, Asociaţia Culturală Haáz Rezső45101032. As in lack of financial basis the museum cannot organize exhibitions, programmes of a proper standard, the Haáz Rezső Cultural Society has undertaken also this. Among such programmes we consider worth mentioning the exhibition entitled ’’Székely folk art from the Székelyudvarhely region” (showed in numerous Hungarian towns like Kecskemét, Kaposvár, Budapest, Szécsény, Zalaegerszeg, Barcs, Kisvárda). In 1992 and 1994 we organized in Szentegyháza (Vlăhiţa) the meeting of the Romanian Hungarian public collection workers. We have marked with bronze memorial tablet the houses of the poet László Tompa and the writer Nyíró József; on the yard of the museum we have put up the bust of Rezső Haáz, the founder of this museum. The ’’Székelyland Exploratory Group” has begunit activity (1994) within the framework of our organization, and it intends the defining of the székely-magyar’s position and role within the Hungarian history and etnography. Its members are: Bárdi Nándor, Kordé Zoltán, Vincze Gábor (research workers at the József Attila University of Szeged), Lőrincz György writer, cultural supervisor of Székelyudvarhely and the nearby region, Zepeczaner Jenő, Hermann Gusztáv, Veres Péter museologists. The catalogue of the Haáz Rezső Kulturális Egyesület’s publications may found on side 10. C
