The government decision signed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is about the integration of individual public collections into the Public Collection Center of the Hungarian National Museum.
“In order to develop the cultural institutional system and fulfill cultural tasks at an outstanding level, the Government agrees that the Hungarian National Museum will continue to operate under the name of the Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Center,” read the latest Hungarian Gazette.
so the name of the Hungarian National Museum will change.
Pursuant to the organizational integration implemented within the framework of the public collection cultural institution system, the following budgetary bodies will be merged into the Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Center on July 1, 2024, with the provision that they will continue to operate as member institutions of the Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Center, indicating their quality and keeping their name:
- Museum of Applied Arts,
- Hungarian Museum of Natural Sciences,
- Hungarian Trade and Hospitality Museum,
- Petőfi Literary Museum,
- National Széchenyi Library.
The government calls on the minister responsible for culture and innovation, as well as the heads of the listed budget bodies, to prepare the necessary legislative amendments, organizational and employer measures, as well as appropriation reallocations. The responsible person is the minister responsible for culture and innovation and the heads of the relevant budget bodies. “Deadline: Immediately.”
The government decrees that the chapter on the Ministry of Culture and Innovation of the Act on the Central Budget of Hungary for 2024 Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Center supplement with title. The Minister of Finance and the Minister responsible for culture and innovation are responsible. Deadline: April 30, 2024.
Deadline: immediately
The government also calls on the Minister of Finance to arrange for the transfer of the Hungarian National Museum’s appropriations to the appropriate place through the Hungarian State Treasury, “at the same time, the transfer of interannual appropriation changes, performance data and related budget balances carried out up to the date of the reorganization; Responsible: Minister of Finance. Deadline: April 30, 2024.
The government calls on the minister responsible for culture and innovation to take measures through the Hungarian State Treasury to rearrange the appropriations of the budgetary bodies affected by the merger by July 1, 2024. “Responsible: Minister responsible for culture and innovation, deadline: immediately.”
And he calls on the Minister of Finance, with the involvement of the Minister responsible for culture and innovation, to take care of the transfer of the budgets of the relevant budgetary bodies “in a way that is built into the base. Responsible: the Minister of Finance and the Minister responsible for Culture and Innovation. Deadline: during the planning of the 2025 central budget”.
The Ferenc Széchényi Public Collection Center will not be realized
All of this also means that the Ferenc Széchényi Public Collection Center, which was announced by the minister responsible for culture and innovation, János Csák, in the M5 This is the question in his show, is not realized. It would have been headed by Demeter Szilárd, who according to them will now remain the director-general of the Hungarian National Museum, and the five listed public collections will fall under this institution – more precisely, the Hungarian National Museum Public Collections Center.
We could also say that the collection will not have a museum, but the museum will have a collection.
About the Public Collection Center of the Hungarian National Museum by the way, László L. Simon, the former director general of the Hungarian National Museum, has already spoken on ATV. Regarding the fact that the Ferenc Széchényi Public Collection Center will not be established in the end, in this article we also wrote
(Cover photo: The building of the Hungarian National Museum. Photo: László Róka / MTI)
