Showing posts with label Hungarian Museum of Ethnography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hungarian Museum of Ethnography. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

DON'T GO IN THE BEST ROOM/The Hungarian Museum of Ethnography



The Hungarian Museum of Ethnography does exactly what municipal museums do best: take a mack-off, extraordinary building in the centre of town and fill it with a wagon-load of assorted artefacts, objets, bequests and ephemera ordered chaotically but sensitively by a curator with a sense of humour.

We last visited here in 2006, and were rather taken with the Old House exhibition, specifically the Best Room, the area of a nineteenth-century Hungarian peasant's abode reserved for best - chock full o' their posh china, embroidered sheets, ceremonial jugs &c. Thereafter, we followed their example: the mould and damp-ridden cupboard that held the collective detritus of our Norwich flat became our very own Best Room.